Size matters for speeding up nuclear waste cleanup
Cleaning up legacy radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production has been a daunting, lengthy, and expensive process.
May 12, 2022
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Could the next generation of particle accelerators come out of a 3-D printer?
Imagine being able to manufacture complex devices whenever you want and wherever you are. It would create unforeseen possibilities even in the most remote locations, such as building spare parts or new components on board ...
Feb 6, 2020
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What's standing in the way of sustainable steel?
Steel production is the surprising source of 8% of all greenhouse gases today. Most of it comes when converting iron ore into molten iron. Usually, that means with coal. Clean-burning hydrogen fuel, on the other hand, which ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Charging electric cars up to 90% in six minutes
With Telsa in the lead, the electric vehicle market is growing around the world. Unlike conventional cars that use internal combustion engines, electric cars are solely powered by lithium ion batteries, so the battery performance ...
Oct 23, 2020
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Toilets spew invisible aerosol plumes with every flush. Here's the proof
Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into the air around you. These droplets, called aerosol plumes, can spread pathogens from human waste and expose people in public restrooms to contagious ...
Dec 11, 2022
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Researchers' 'cooling glass' blasts building heat into space
University of Maryland researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new "cooling glass" that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space.
Nov 13, 2023
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Improving plastic waste separation with magnetic fields
In 2018, 61.8 million metric tons of plastic waste was produced in the European Union with only 9.4 million metric ton recycled. This constitutes a huge amount of plastic waste, which rapidly needs to be addressed. One solution ...
Nov 24, 2021
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PoseRBPF: A new particle filter for 6D object pose tracking
Researchers at NVIDIA, University of Washington, Stanford University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have recently developed a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter for 6-D pose tracking, called PoseRBPF. The approach ...
Engineering
Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water
More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world's population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new, portable and affordable water filtration solution created by researchers at The University of Texas ...
Jan 22, 2024
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Engineers propose greener recycling for medical PPE waste
Under the intensity of a prolonged pandemic, the world finds an ever-growing and seemingly never-ending waste stream of used surgical masks, plastic face shields, and medical gloves and gowns. Cornell engineers now offer ...
Jan 27, 2022
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