Hardware
Designing a new type of nuclear reactor is a complicated endeavor requiring billions of dollars and years of development. What's more, there are a vast array of different proposed configurations for next-generation nuclear ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
An Argonne team developing materials for solid-state batteries has taken an unexpected detour to investigate tiny short-circuits known as soft-shorts. Their insights will benefit battery researchers around the world.
Feb 7, 2024
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Engineering
Biomedical engineers at Duke University are developing a massive fluid dynamics simulator that can model blood flow through the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution. One of the goals of the effort is to provide ...
May 13, 2020
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Automotive
Akin to when Model Ts traveled alongside horses and buggies, autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs) will someday share road. How to best manage the rise of AVs is the topic of a new Carnegie Mellon policy ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Engineering
In the coming decades, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind will increasingly dominate the conventional power grid. Because those sources only generate electricity when it's sunny or windy, ensuring a reliable ...
Apr 10, 2023
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Hardware
Cameras similar to those already on newer model cars, combined with facial recognition tools, could read the "tells" of impairment in the face and upper body of a driver, University of Michigan engineers have shown.
Mar 4, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a novel envelope system that diverts heat or coolness away from a building and stores it for future use.
Jun 2, 2021
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Software
Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA's Advanced Air Mobility ...
Apr 5, 2024
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Automotive
To reduce travel times, fuel consumption and carbon emissions, in 2004, UPS changed delivery routes to minimize the left-hand turns drivers made. Although this seems like a rather modest change, the results are anything but: ...
Jun 2, 2021
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Engineering
The fundamental solution to achieve the goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" is to transform traditional energy consumption toward a low-carbon environment. A power system with new energy sources can guarantee the ...
Jun 30, 2023
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