Engineering
Australian engineers have unveiled a clever new device—based on a modified speargun—as a cheap and efficient way to test seabed soil when designing offshore wind farms.
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Engineering
Modern life relies on electricity and electrical devices, from cars and buses to phones and laptops, to the electrical systems in homes. Behind many of these devices is a type of energy storage device, the supercapacitor. ...
May 29, 2024
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Engineering
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-destructive imaging technique used to visualize the interior of materials. In this method, an electric current is injected between two electrodes, creating an electric field, ...
Jan 22, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Studying people in human-computer interaction (HCI) research can be slow. That's why researchers at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) recently harnessed the power of large language models (LLMs), specifically ...
May 9, 2023
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Engineering
Water is the most essential resource for life, for both humans and the crops we consume. Around the world, agriculture accounts for 70% of all freshwater use.
Aug 12, 2022
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Telecom
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A click on the internet leaves traces behind. Not only in the web itself, but also in the form of a large ecological footprint. Because even though all our data is supposedly floating in the cloud, physical data centers are ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Field-effect transistors are key components of sensors, electrical circuits, and data storage devices. The transistors used to date have been mainly based on inorganic semiconductors such as silicon. More recently, organic ...
Oct 13, 2020
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Computer Sciences
We want to make sure our phones no longer disturb us at the wrong moment. To achieve this, we first have to better understand where our attention lies when using smartphones. Computer scientists at ETH have now developed ...
Sep 30, 2020
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Internet
Hovering airborne vehicles could connect smart sensors to the internet of things.
Dec 12, 2019
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