How future trains could be less noisy
Rail transportation is core to Europe's plans to become carbon neutral by 2050, but noisy trains represent an obstacle that needs to be overcome.
Sep 13, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
How Europe could slash its cooling footprint with chilled water
As climate change warms the world, we increasingly need to find ways to efficiently cool our buildings—whilst also lowering our emissions to attempt to halt the temperature rise as much as possible. Traditional air conditioners ...
Aug 18, 2021
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Cooler data centers help take the heat off electric bills
From streaming movies or games and sharing photos on Instagram to the growing use of "smart" devices and growth in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the amount of data being processed is escalating. As a result, ...
Aug 18, 2021
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Telecom
New braking systems and satellite navigation to help more trains run on Europe's tracks
Increasing the amount of trains on Europe's tracks to replace other modes of transport could help reduce CO2 emissions and air pollution. But fitting more trains requires a serious rethink of how trains brake and could move ...
Aug 10, 2021
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Saving railways from sand
In desert regions and sandy coastal areas, windblown sand can bury infrastructure such as railways, and cause problems such as train derailment, grinding down rails or wheels and wearing down coatings on the nose of high-speed ...
Jun 30, 2021
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Internet
COVID-19 hastened the digital shift with consequences for the 'data divide'
People now entrust much of their data to cloud computing services and social media sites. The problems with this new digital way of life are well known. Social media is thought to produce echo chambers in which people aren't ...
Jun 21, 2021
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Robotics
Bird-like robots could assist in medical emergencies and hunt down drones
A bird flaps its wings, glides using air currents and then smoothly descends to perch on a pole. But this is not just any bird, it's a robot bird. And robots like these could in the next decade be used to respond to emergencies ...
Jun 01, 2021
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Paris to Berlin in an hour by train? Here's how it could happen.
The hyperloop is what you get when you take a magnetic levitation train and put it into an airless tube. The lack of resistance allows the train, in theory, to achieve unseen speeds, a concept that is edging closer and closer ...
Apr 22, 2021
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Automotive
Do you trust automated cars? If not, you're not alone
Picture yourself speeding down the highway with no hands on the wheel, checking your emails while your car takes care of responding to what's happening on the road. Would you trust your car to make the right decisions? If ...
Apr 20, 2021
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New materials to make ships more sustainable and less noisy for marine life
Ships have a significant environmental impact during building, operation and when they're scrapped, but new approaches and composite materials to replace steel—still popular due to its strength and low cost—could make ...
Apr 13, 2021
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