Engineering
Nature in city environs has a positive effect on people's well-being. At the same time, biological diversity in urban areas continues to shrink, for example, because of increasing building density. In the Ecolopes project, ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Robotics
Drones are already shaping the face of our cities—used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Automotive
After years of delays, US automaker Tesla is expected on Thursday to deliver its first battery-powered semi truck, with which it hopes to get a jump start on the nascent electric heavy duty vehicle market by offering longer ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Engineering
Scientists have now found out how to optimize the functional and aesthetic character of the world's first fully electric high-speed ferry. The aim is to persuade passengers to opt for fossil-free transport.
Nov 21, 2022
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Engineering
Caltech Hall, a 55-year-old nine-story reinforced concrete building on the Caltech campus, has been getting structurally stiffer over the past 20 years, according to a new report published in The Seismic Record.
Nov 11, 2022
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Engineering
Imperial and chemical company BASF will reveal new techniques for optimizing experimental design at the machine learning conference NeurIPS.
Nov 1, 2022
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Hardware
The energy and transportation sector often make use of different kinds of fluid machinery, including pumps, turbines, and aircraft engines, all of which entail a high carbon footprint. This results mainly from inefficiencies ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Engineering
Monash University's Design Health Collab has partnered with Australian tech company Micro-X to streamline and improve crucial airport security checkpoint processes across the United States, and increase aviation passenger ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Engineering
Over the past few decades, the booming global population, growing cities and changing climate have brought global attention to the need to build energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.
Oct 18, 2022
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Internet
The National research center for Cybersecurity ATHENE has found a way to break one of the basic mechanisms used to secure internet traffic. The mechanism, called RPKI, is actually designed to prevent cybercriminals or government ...
Oct 5, 2022
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