Robotics
Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found.
Aug 1, 2024
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Engineering
A new open-source code developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory accurately simulates the performance of manufactured parts accounting for the microstructure to make them stronger, safer, and better-performing.
Jul 31, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more embedded into our everyday lives and business operations, their high energy demands and environmental impacts call for a more sustainable approach to building algorithms—the ...
Jul 31, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Many people now work partly or permanently from home. This saves petrol because they no longer have to drive to the office—which is good for the energy transition. Or not. Because at home, they consume even more energy ...
Jul 31, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
With their massive sails stretched over towering masts, merchant ships that plied the world's oceans hundreds of years ago helped launch the era of commercial shipping, delivering goods of all kinds to different ports of ...
Jul 29, 2024
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Hardware
Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor ...
Jul 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Chemists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have synthesized materials that can improve solar elements for indoor use. Such photovoltaic cells, which can also be integrated into various electronic devices, ...
Jul 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
With a continuous rise in the global population, energy consumption and its associated environmental and economic costs are also increasing.
Jul 24, 2024
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Engineering
From keeping warm in the winter to doing laundry, heat is crucial to daily life. But as the world grapples with climate change, buildings' increasing energy consumption is a critical problem. Currently, heat is produced by ...
Jul 24, 2024
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Engineering
University of South Australia researchers have worked with industry to build a world-first, energy-efficient refrigeration system that could revolutionize how we cool supermarkets, hospitals, abattoirs and other systems.
Jul 18, 2024
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