Energy & Green Tech
Since its invention in the 1970s, the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) has aimed to enhance solar energy capture by using luminescent materials to convert and concentrate sunlight onto photovoltaic (PV) cells. Unlike ...
Aug 15, 2024
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Robotics
A team of engineers from several institutions in South Korea has developed a type of wheel with spokes that can be adjusted in real time to conform the wheel's shape to uneven terrain. In their paper published in the journal ...
Machine learning & AI
Ask a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 to smell a rain-soaked campsite, and it'll politely decline. Ask the same system to describe that scent to you, and it'll wax poetic about "an air thick with anticipation" and "a ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Robotics
A team of engineers at Google's DeepMind Project has demonstrated a robot capable of playing amateur-level table tennis (ping-pong). The team has published a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing how they developed ...
Energy & Green Tech
A new construction biomaterial that uses living microorganisms to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has been developed by a UCL graduate student and colleagues.
Aug 8, 2024
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Engineering
Noise pollution has become increasingly common in urban areas, stemming from traffic, construction activities, and factories, which can seriously impact health, causing stress, sleep disturbances, and cardiovascular issues. ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
When it comes to innovative technologies, inventors often find inspiration in the most unexpected places. A former salesman, Akeem Shannon, was inspired by his uncle, who worked as an engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight ...
Aug 7, 2024
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Engineering
As NASA continues cutting-edge aeronautics research, the agency is also taking steps to make sure the benefits from these diverse technologies are greater than the sum of their parts.
Aug 5, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A Brigham Young University professor has figured out a way to shave critical years off the complicated design and licensing processes for modern nuclear reactors: artificial intelligence.
Jul 30, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers in Korea have united to tackle the challenges in the commercialization of all-solid-state batteries. The work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.
Jul 30, 2024
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