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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Energy & Green Tech
There's been tremendous excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, hinting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works—it is ...
Feb 24, 2022
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Automotive
General Motors says it will spend about $154 million to revamp an aging factory near Buffalo, New York, so it can make a key part for electric vehicle motors.
Jan 21, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Excitement about fusion energy is growing. The international ITER project in France, which counts China, India, Europe, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States as its partners, is starting to assemble the world's ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Australian researchers have discovered that negative capacitance could lower the energy used in electronics and computing, which represents 8 percent of global electricity demand.
Dec 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
In 2018, 61.8 million metric tons of plastic waste was produced in the European Union with only 9.4 million metric ton recycled. This constitutes a huge amount of plastic waste, which rapidly needs to be addressed. One solution ...
Nov 24, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Trials begin this week in Bath of a revolutionary new smartwatch app that monitors a wearer's heart rate and body motion to sense distress, automatically sending an emergency alert.
Nov 22, 2021
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Engineering
Theorists at The University of Texas at Dallas, along with colleagues in Germany, have for the first time observed a rare phenomenon called the quantum anomalous Hall effect in a very simple material. Previous experiments ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Engineering
Air pollution emitted by residential biomass combustion is a known cause of adverse health effects, such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, as well as adverse climate effects. Residential biomass combustion has been ...
Nov 3, 2021
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Business
China's Huawei Technologies Co. is providing smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare, creating new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions.
Nov 2, 2021
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