Energy & Green Tech
The expansion of wind energy in the German Bight and the Baltic Sea has accelerated enormously in recent years. The first systems went into operation in 2008. Today, wind turbines with an output of around 8,000 megawatts ...
Jun 3, 2021
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Telecom
The vast majority of US adults now use a smartphone and have high-speed internet at home, following modest growth over the past two years, a survey showed Thursday.
Jun 3, 2021
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Engineering
What happens when a bomb explodes? A lot of testing has been done over the years to answer that question about huge bombs, but there is much less understanding when it comes to small bombs—especially when they are buried.
May 20, 2021
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Internet
While we tackle scores of digital tasks daily on our desktop computers, smartphones, smart watches, notebooks, security devices and sound systems, and converse with Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant to answer questions or ...
Energy & Green Tech
Optimizing the integration of wind energy into a country's power network requires reliable forecasts of how wind speed and direction are likely to vary in time and space over the pending few hours. KAUST researchers have ...
Sep 28, 2020
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Internet
The COVID-19 crisis has increasingly highlighted shortcomings in Australia's National Broadband Network, Flinders University experts say.
Aug 28, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers from ETH Zurich have achieved what scientists have been attempting to do for some 20 years: in their laboratory work as part of European Horizon 2020 research projects, they have manufactured a chip on which fast ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Business
A high-speed train that won't start. An overcrowded airport that can't expand. A new subway line that never runs.
Jan 8, 2020
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Engineering
High energy arcing faults are high-power electrical discharges between two or more conductors that can release tens of thousands of amps of current. They can result in explosions that reach about 35,000 degrees Celsius—about ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Hardware
High-performance computing (HPC)—the use of supercomputers and parallel processing techniques to solve large computational problems—is of great use in the scientific community. For example, scientists at the U.S. Department ...
Apr 16, 2019
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