Robotics
A four-legged robot trained with machine learning by EPFL researchers has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking—a milestone for roboticists as well as biologists interested ...
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, researchers have been experimenting with a wide range of solar cell designs in the hope of facilitating their widespread deployment. Organic solar cells based on perovskite materials have been found to exhibit ...
Engineering
As a grid-scale energy storage system, flow batteries have gained increasing attention as a means to address the challenges associated with fluctuations and intermittency in renewable energy sources.
Apr 24, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Computing and Engineering, and independent researchers have developed a model, dubbed GREENSKY, that significantly enhances the energy efficiency and operational ...
Apr 23, 2024
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Engineering
Engineers have invented energy-efficient bricks with scrap materials, including glass, that are normally destined for landfill.
Apr 23, 2024
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Business
The "miners" who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are taking a 50% pay cut—effectively reducing new production of the world's largest cryptocurrency, again.
Apr 19, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) can be fabricated in a sustainable and cost-effective way on both rigid and flexible surfaces making it suitable for a broad range of applications, like illumination, health care, ...
Apr 18, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
There's a hidden scourge making homes more harmful to the climate and less comfortable: leaky heating and cooling systems. Plugging those leaks may be the dull stepchild of the energy transition, but that doesn't make it ...
Apr 18, 2024
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Business
Manufacturing nations in the Global North are stockpiling energy and emission problems by outsourcing energy-intensive industrial processes to countries in the Global South, a new study reveals.
Apr 15, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from Lehigh University have developed a material that demonstrates the potential for drastically increasing the efficiency of solar panels.
Apr 10, 2024
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