Engineering
Railway transport is deemed to be optimal to bring people or goods from one place to another in a climate-friendly manner. However, reduced capacities, frequent delays, and a partly unfavorable sequencing of trains lead to ...
Sep 13, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A student in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) has used reinforcement learning to help control nuclear fusion reactions, a significant step toward harnessing the immense power produced in nuclear ...
Sep 9, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made a technological breakthrough and constructed a perovskite solar cell with the dual benefits of being both highly ...
Sep 6, 2022
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Robotics
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, working with a pair of colleagues from the Harbin Institute of Technology, has developed a tiny actuated gearbox that can be used to give very tiny ...
Energy & Green Tech
A thermostat that predictively controls the indoor climate and thereby improves energy efficiency and comfort—Empa researchers Felix Bünning and Benjamin Huber came up with this idea while working in Empa's Urban Energy ...
Sep 1, 2022
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Robotics
Nature has provided great support for the development of robots. Inspired by manta rays, a team from the State Key Laboratory of Robotics at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Engineering
Solar panels, also known as photovoltaics, rely on semiconductor devices, or solar cells, to convert energy from the sun into electricity.
Aug 30, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Tohoku University scientists in Japan have developed a mathematical description of what happens within tiny magnets as they fluctuate between states when an electric current and magnetic field are applied. Their findings, ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A pair of researchers at MIT have found evidence suggesting that a new kind of computer could be built based on liquid crystals rather than silicon. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Žiga Kos and ...
Telecom
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have adapted their atom-based radio receiver to detect and display live color television and video games.
Aug 18, 2022
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