Engineering
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have carried out a detailed simulation showing how a common type of bridge fails during large-scale earthquakes. They modeled I-shaped girder bridges, looking at the step-by-step ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Wave energy is a form of renewable energy that can be harnessed from the motion of waves. On its own, it could easily meet all of the world's energy needs. Europe, home to several of the finest resources thanks to its Atlantic ...
Aug 31, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Deep learning models have proved to be very effective for analyzing large amounts of data and accurately predicting future events. This makes them advantageous for a wide range of applications, including weather forecasting.
Apr 8, 2022 feature
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Engineering
With the development of steel and concrete piles over the years, the use of timber piles in civil infrastructure has steadily declined. While timber piles are a renewable and a low-cost foundation system, they have low stiffness ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Engineering
Researchers from Skoltech (Russia) and their colleagues from SINTEF (Norway) have developed a mathematical model of freezing water droplets moving in cold air. This model is a part of a joint RFBR-supported Russian-Norway ...
Apr 26, 2021
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Robotics
Rigid electromagnetic actuators have a variety of applications, but their bulky nature limits human-actuator integration or machine-human collaborations. In a new report on Science Advances, Guoyong Mao and a team of scientists ...
Jul 6, 2020 feature
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Consumer & Gadgets
CU Boulder researcher Daniel Larremore has never held a nasal swab and doesn't wear scrubs. Instead, he relies on math to track the spread of human diseases.
Apr 8, 2020
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