Energy & Green Tech
Power electronics—including the inverters that interface solar, wind, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles—are on track to gradually, or even entirely, displace traditional generation. In doing so, inverters ...
Dec 24, 2020
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Engineering
A new system devised by researchers at MIT can monitor the behavior of all electric devices within a building, ship, or factory, determining which ones are in use at any given time and whether any are showing signs of an ...
Mar 22, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
The human body needs sleep as much as it needs food and water. Yet many people fail to get enough, causing both mind and body to suffer. People who struggle for shut-eye could benefit from monitoring their sleep, but they ...
Jun 2, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Some materials, like wood, are insulators that block the flow of electricity. Conductors, such as copper, allow for electricity to flow through them. Other materials—semiconductors—can be either/or depending on conditions ...
May 11, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New technology, developed by researchers at the University of York, has proved successful in reducing the risk of electrocution to drivers and passengers of electric vehicles as a result of damage to the cars in major road ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
First responders and rescue teams are respected for doing all they can and based on what they know to help rescue victims of vehicle accidents as fast as possible.
Software
Adding an organic matter power source to a solar energy unit could provide 100% heating for a single-story home during the coldest months of the year and help the environment. In the warmer months, the system could generate ...
May 31, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Acoustic waves are slower than electromagnetic waves of the same frequency but, even in the high-speed world of computing and communications, that's not a bad thing. Short acoustic waves are easy to confine in nanoscale ...
Jun 28, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a scalable, low-cost method to improve the joining of materials in solid-state batteries, resolving one of the big challenges in the commercial ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Hardware
A new technological development by Tel Aviv University has made it possible for a robot to smell using a biological sensor. The sensor sends electrical signals as a response to the presence of a nearby odor, which the robot ...
Jan 17, 2023
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