Energy & Green Tech
Imagine having access to a battery, which has the potential to power your phone for five continuous days, or enable an electric vehicle to drive more than 1000km without needing to "refuel".
Jan 3, 2020
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Robotics
Utilizing soft, flexible materials such as cloth, paper, and silicone, soft robotic grippers act like a robot's hand to perform functions such as safely grasping and releasing objects. Unlike conventional rigid material grippers, ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Engineering
Engineers have discovered a way to replace 100% of conventional aggregates in concrete—such as gravel and crushed rock—with rubber from discarded tires that meets building codes, promising a boost for the circular economy.
Aug 11, 2022
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Robotics
Magnetic soft robots are systems that can change shape or perform different actions when a magnetic field is applied to them. These robots have numerous advantageous characteristics, including a wireless drive, high flexibility ...
Hardware
They were two years behind schedule but the industry group overseeing memory technology development and standardization has finally announced the officials specs for the new DDR5 SDRAM standard.
Engineering
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new way to 3D-print glass microstructures that is faster and produces objects with higher optical quality, design flexibility and strength, according to a new study published in ...
Apr 15, 2022
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Telecom
Researchers from the Network Research Institute at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) report the world's first demonstration of more than 1 petabit per second in a multi-core fiber ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Energy is scarce—and like all scarce things, it comes at a price. That is why Germany needs to greatly reduce its energy consumption. There is significant potential for this in the area of heating and cooling energy which ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Costs of solar panels have plummeted over the last several years, leading to rates of solar installations far greater than most analysts had expected. But with most of the potential areas for cost savings already pushed to ...
Jan 27, 2020
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Engineering
A new 3-D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes.
Jan 31, 2019
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