Springer Science+Business Media or Springer is a global publishing company which publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Springer also hosts a number of scientific databases, including SpringerLink, Springer Protocols, and SpringerImages. Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 37,000 titles are available as e-books in 13 subject collections. Within STM, Springer is the largest book publisher and second-largest journal publisher worldwide (the largest being Elsevier), with over 60 publishing houses, more than 5,000 employees and around 2,000 journals and 6,500 new books published each year. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, and New York City. Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842. In 1964, Springer expanded its business internationally, opening an office in New York. Offices in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, and Delhi soon followed. The academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer was formed after Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag in 1999.
Computer Sciences
New analysis in The European Physical Journal E (EPJ E) shows how a 'curriculum learning' approach, which carefully structures the data used to train models of complex systems, can significantly improve their results, without ...
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Computer Sciences
New research opens the horizons regarding what a "computer" can be and how small a computational unit can get
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Energy & Green Tech
Airborne wind energy (AWE) is a lightweight technology which uses flying devices including kites and gliders to harvest power from the atmosphere. To maximize the energy they extract, these devices need to precisely control ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Business
The taxes and levies on energy prices have a major impact on energy use and the funds available to governments to promote reduced dependency on fossil fuels. A new study, published in Energy Policy, reveals significant imbalances ...
Dec 16, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A machine learning technique to improve analysis and prediction of lithium-ion battery life has been developed by researchers in Scotland. Gonçalo dos Reis and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers worldwide are exploring ways to improve the performance of the rechargeable lithium-ion and lithium metal batteries that power everything from phones and laptops to electric vehicles. In an article published in ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Business
The environmental impact of blockchain technologies like Bitcoin and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. Now, researchers from Qatar University have analyzed policy tools and interventions ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The power sector accounts for 25% of global CO2 emissions and decarbonization of the entire energy system is critical to meeting the Paris Agreement goal of reducing global temperature rise to below 2◦C above pre-industrial ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion batteries currently power most portable electronic devices, electric vehicles and energy grid storage facilities. Researchers worldwide are working to improve the performance of these batteries.
Jul 7, 2022
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Internet
The wireless interconnection of everyday objects known as the Internet of Things depends on wireless sensor networks that need a low but constant supply of electrical energy. This can be provided by electromagnetic energy ...
Jun 13, 2022
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