Engineering
Offshore wind farms bring environmental benefits throughout their life cycle. This understanding emerges from a study published in the international journal Sustainable Production and Consumption in which researchers from ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Automotive
In Robert Rose's vision for the future, we are currently on the cusp of a dramatic transformation of human mobility. A veteran of Tesla and Space-X, Rose's new company, Reliable Robotics, is now working to fully automate ...
Jun 23, 2023
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Robotics
Stanford scientists have developed a soft and stretchable electronic skin that can directly talk to the brain, imitating the sensory feedback of real skin using a strategy that, if improved, could offer hope to millions of ...
Jun 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from EPFL and HES-SO Valais have modeled the Swiss energy system under the hypothetical constraints of carbon neutrality and energy independence by 2050. The results show that these two constraints could be met ...
Jun 2, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
As with many other countries throughout the world, Switzerland has set itself the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest. Recent developments such as the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and ...
May 24, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A power transmission grid can be destabilized by hackers who manipulate smart meters to create an oscillation in electricity demand, researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have shown.
May 3, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Scientists at UNSW Sydney have combined artificial synapses with advanced sensors to mimic the properties of human skin, in new research published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Apr 26, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A new bio-inspired sensor can recognize moving objects in a single frame from a video and successfully predict where they will move to. This smart sensor, described in a Nature Communications paper, will be a valuable tool ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Countless hardware and software solutions created over the past decades draw inspiration from animals and natural phenomena. This includes electronic skins (e-skins), flexible and stretchable electronic circuits designed ...
Energy & Green Tech
On 8 June 2022, the European Parliament voted to ban the sale of new internal-combustion engine cars in Europe in 2035. This measure is part of European objectives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55% by 2030 and ...
Mar 22, 2023
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