Security
A team led by academician Guo Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences made progress in the practical security of quantum key distribution (QKD).
Jun 15, 2023
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Engineering
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the Republic of Korea has developed a type of implantable device that produces energy using an external ultrasound source. In their paper published in the journal ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jimmy Jiang envisions a future where every house is powered by renewable energy stored in batteries—perhaps even those he and his students are designing today.
Sep 6, 2023
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Engineering
Gas turbines are widely used for power generation and aircraft propulsion. According to the laws of thermodynamics, the higher the temperature of an engine, the higher the efficiency. Because of these laws, there is an emerging ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Global warming is partly due to the vast amount of carbon dioxide that we release, mostly from power generation and industrial processes, such as making steel and cement. For a while now, chemical engineers have been exploring ...
Jan 4, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The power grid is evolving to include ever-higher levels of wind and solar generation—which do not provide inertia, historically a key source of grid reliability. Should system planners and operators panic? A new video ...
May 29, 2020
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Engineering
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) develop a novel approach for the modular design of controllers for large-scale network systems. Their strategy, which provides a completely decentralized method to ...
Nov 4, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers are pushing to outpace hackers and develop stronger protections that keep data safe from malicious agents who would steal information by eavesdropping on smart devices.
Jun 14, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers at West Virginia University have engineered a material with the potential to dramatically cut the amount of heat power plants release into the atmosphere.
Mar 14, 2023
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Engineering
In a worldwide first that could jumpstart a clean energy economy built around the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen fuel cells have powered a row of datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, Microsoft announced ...
Jul 28, 2020
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