Q&A: Can we use plastic waste to build roads, buildings, and more?
Stanford engineers Michael Lepech and Zhiye Li have a unique vision of the future: buildings and roads made from plastic waste.
Jul 18, 2023
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Why Europe needs a circular approach to critical raw materials
CLG Europe's Materials & Products Taskforce has released a new report in partnership with the Wuppertal Institute on the urgent need for more circularity in the EU critical raw materials market. The report, "Embracing circularity: ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Engineering
Beyond buildings: Architectural engineers work to preserve heritage
Three years ago, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history blasted through Lebanon's capital, Beirut. The accidental detonation of improperly stored ammonium nitrate killed 218 people, injured thousands and caused ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Legal professionals 'sitting on the fence' in terms of embracing new technologies, report finds
A lack of understanding by, and encouragement from, management is proving a barrier to the uptake of technologies like artificial intelligence in the legal services sector, according to a new report by UCL, the University ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The world needs hundreds of thousands more offshore wind turbines—where will they all go?
To reach net zero, the world may need as many 200,000 offshore wind turbines generating 2,000 gigawatts (GW) of energy.
Jul 5, 2023
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Business
Team applies variable reduction strategy to improve emergency material scheduling
When real-world disasters occur, logistics play a crucial role in emergency disaster management. Emergency material scheduling is a vital piece of the emergency logistics plan. Having a reasonable and efficient emergency ...
Jun 29, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Researchers devise new way to evaluate cybersecurity methods
A savvy hacker can obtain secret information, such as a password, by observing a computer program's behavior, like how much time that program spends accessing the computer's memory.
Jun 28, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Defining the unexplainable in artificial intelligence
The term "artificial intelligence," usually abbreviated as AI, means many things to many people. Initially, the phrase was used to allude to the potential of machines, computers, specifically, somehow gaining sentience on ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Q&A: Underwater habitat operations director considers worst-case scenarios surrounding the missing Titan submersible
The world remains riveted by the story of the lost vessel carrying five people to see the remains of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. A massive search operation continues for the submersible, named Titan, ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Novel image simulation algorithm boosts image intensity computation speed 5,000-fold
Lithography, an essential process in the semiconductor industry, lies at the heart of the manufacturing technology for modern-day electronics. In essence, it is a printing technique used to define and pattern all the intricate ...
Jun 21, 2023
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