Engineering
A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even down to the roughly ...
Oct 25, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
A German power firm will launch demonstrations of a one-of-a-kind, triple-threat power generating platform off Iraklio, Greece, later this year.
Engineering
We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering. Much as large, expensive, and centralized computers ...
Jun 25, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
In a symbolic first, electric cars outsold fossil fuel-powered ones in Norway last month.
Apr 1, 2019
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Security
Computer security experts have developed a system capable of guessing computer and smartphone users' passwords in seconds by analyzing the traces of heat their fingertips leave on keyboards and screens.
Oct 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A small team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California has found that battery-powered trains could become economical as soon as 2023. In their paper published in the journal ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dubai's airport, the world's busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning.
Mar 7, 2021
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Computer Sciences
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the University of California (and one from Stony Brook University) has for the first time created a neural-network chip that was built using just memristors. In their paper published ...
Computer Sciences
For all that neural networks can accomplish, we still don't really understand how they operate. Sure, we can program them to learn, but making sense of a machine's decision-making process remains much like a fancy puzzle ...
Dec 16, 2021
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The BBC reported on Saturday that a graphene bulb is set for shops, to go on sale this year. UK developers said their graphene bulb will be the first commercially viable consumer product using the super-strong carbon; bulb ...
