Engineering
After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth. With applications from housing and industry to coastal defense and infrastructure, concrete and cement are at the cornerstone of life, quite literally.
Jul 19, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine a truck tarp that can harvest the energy of sunlight! With the help of new textile-based solar cells developed by Fraunhofer researchers, semitrailers could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling ...
Aug 2, 2019
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Robotics
Two Princeton researchers, architect Stefana Parascho and engineer Sigrid Adriaenssens, dreamed of using robots to simplify construction, even when building complex forms.
Oct 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
There's a lot of potentially useful raw materials bound up in used face masks, grocery bags and food wrap. But it has been much cheaper to keep making more of these single-use plastics than to recover and recycle them.
Feb 23, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
An eco-friendly technology that effectively sanitizes clothing could help protect the environment by dramatically slashing waste, researchers believe. They have published their results in Ozone: Science & Engineering.
Jun 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Major green energy projects are sprouting up across Spain as it seeks to position itself as a future green energy leader—but experts have urged caution over costs and demand uncertainty.
Apr 26, 2023
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Other
We are entering a new world where skyscrapers and other huge buildings are becoming redundant and need significant overhaul or replacement. The process is called unbuilding or, if you're a bit highfalutin, deconstruction.
Jan 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
An effective industrial catalyst for the faster production of biofuels at low temperatures has been synthesized by an international scientific team with the participation of scientists from MISIS University. The results of ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Natural gas is the cleanest of all fossil fuels, but storing it safely and affordably remains a challenge. Now, engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have devised a method to convert natural gas into a ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner is set to take off from Heathrow on November 28 and head for JFK airport in New York, powered by so-called sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). According to its operator, Virgin Atlantic, the world's "first ...
Nov 28, 2023
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