Engineering
In April 2022, a team of engineers hiked into California's Sierra Nevada mountains to hunt for snow. Instead, they found mostly bare, dry dirt and only a few of the snow patches that provide one-third of California's water ...
Jan 18, 2023
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Robotics
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design's (SUTD) Bio-Inspired Robotics and Design Laboratory have developed a new reconfigurable workspace soft (RWS) robotic gripper that can scoop, pick and grasp ...
Jan 10, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
From an AI oven that promises to warn you when your food is about to burn to a mixing bowl designed to take the hassle out of tracking calories, food tech was a key theme at this year's CES tech show in Las Vegas.
Jan 9, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
For the everyday products we use, a pattern has become numbingly familiar: Something is made, we use it, we throw it away. Yet, for a sustainable future—one where we don't simply extract and toss resources—we need to ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Engineering
There is currently a race to develop edible tags for food so that, for example, you can see where the food comes from or its ingredients, and the information disappears once you've eaten it. Now, researchers from Japan have ...
Oct 17, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Carlsberg recently won a Global Water Award for the world's best water project in the industry category. The award is one of the highest recognitions that you can receive in the global water sector, and it was given for a ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Business
Writing in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, a digital technology leader at telecommunications conglomerate Verizon discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital transformation and ...
Aug 8, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Despite attempts to label the blockchain as a disruptive "trust machine", the tangible business applications of this nascent technology have yet to take shape in practice and be more visible for customers.
Jun 17, 2022
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Software
Blending whiskies from different casks is an art in itself. Whisky blenders are luminaries of their guild. Just as painters mix colors to capture mood on canvas, the experts in distilleries combine flavors to create "liquid ...
Jun 6, 2022
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Engineering
Administering medications to children poses unique challenges, especially in resource-limited countries with high infant and child mortality rates. Many drugs are solids or tablets, which are not easily swallowed by children ...
May 27, 2022
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