Robotics
A team of researchers from Korea University, Ajou University and Hanyang University, all in the Republic of Korea, has created a tiny aquabot propelled by fins made of a porous hydrogel imbued with nanoparticles. In their ...
Computer Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by ever-present fake news surrounding the behavior and effects of the coronavirus, the impact of social distancing, lockdowns, and quarantine, and the medical response in terms of vaccinations ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Software
Hyperspectral cameras split the light reflected by an object into many narrow spectral bands, which they capture and process separately. That way, they record a spectral signature for each pixel in a scene. This signature ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a new artificial intelligence framework for target detection that provides a new solution for fast and ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Business
Standards for energy efficiency and CO2 emissions in the automotive industry appear not only to be an instrument to steer for lower emissions, but are also an important driver of innovation. That is according to empirical ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
A smartphone application that can utilize a device's idle time could reduce the computational and bandwidth loads for scientific research team members who have large amounts of project data to download from the cloud. Akshay ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Computer Sciences
University of British Columbia graduate students have trained computers to "read" news articles about landslides on Reddit to bolster a NASA database, which could improve predictions of when and where these natural disasters ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
New technology developed at the University of Waterloo could make a significant difference in the fight against climate change by affordably converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and other valuable chemicals ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Engineering
People use their eyes and ears to pick up on traffic situations involving potential hazards. For self-driving vehicles to do the same thing, they need a whole host of sensors. As the number of sensors they contain increases, ...
Oct 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen is used mainly to make chemicals such as fertilizer, and in oil refineries. Most hydrogen in the world today is made from natural gas or coal—methods associated with large carbon dioxide emissions. Developed countries ...
Sep 30, 2022
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