Energy & Green Tech
High-capacity and reliable rechargeable batteries are a critical component of many devices and even modes of transport. They play a key role in the shift to a greener world. A wide variety of elements are used in their production, ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Chinese scientists will this month take part in extensive sampling of Fukushima's coastal waters for the first time since the release of treated wastewater from its stricken nuclear plant began, Japanese officials said Wednesday.
Oct 11, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
AI is transforming the fashion world but the fast growing technology will never be a replacement for designers' "original creativity", according to the head of a pioneering project.
Sep 17, 2023
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Robotics
Robots based on soft materials are often better at replicating the appearance, movements and abilities of both humans and animals. While there are now countless soft robots, many of these are difficult to produce on a large-scale, ...
Machine learning & AI
Pictures, preferences, names, dates… Have you ever wondered why Big Tech and artificial intelligence (AI) companies collect so much personal information about you? A new paper out this week reveals a big reason why: self-relevance ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Wind and sun may be nearly infinite resources. But the materials needed to build wind turbines and solar panels are not always common. Take the rare earth metals—neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium—for example. Chances ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP)—using satellites to collect energy from the sun and "beam" it to collection points on Earth—has been around since at least the late 1960s. Despite its huge potential, the concept ...
Aug 15, 2023
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Engineering
Effectively extracting valuable resources from water could go a long way toward enhancing national security while also helping the environment. Two recent studies from the lab of Prof. Menachem Elimelech offer perspectives ...
Jul 24, 2023
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Business
If you ask Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn't know. It doesn't take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it's silent about its own corporate ...
Jul 20, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The periodic table you may remember from chemistry class had two additional rows of elements below the main table. In the top added row are rare earth elements, metals critical in everyday technologies like cell phones and ...
Jul 19, 2023
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