Engineering
Drab urban environments tend to increase our stress, whereas nature can soothe the soul, but how do you get the best of both? One option is to increase color and vegetation in cities, but finding the best approach can be ...
Jun 17, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team consisting of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Tokyo University of Science has developed the fastest electric double layer transistor using a highly ion-conductive ceramic thin film ...
Aug 3, 2023
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Telecom
As Wi-Fi is deployed more widely in cities, and perhaps at higher frequencies, it may depend on an abundant urban asset: streetlight poles.
May 3, 2022
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Robotics
A newborn giraffe or foal must learn to walk on its legs as fast as possible to avoid predators. Animals are born with muscle coordination networks located in their spinal cord. However, learning the precise coordination ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Robotics
In recent decades, engineers have created a wide range of robotic systems inspired by animals, including four legged robots, as well as systems inspired by snakes, insects, squid and fish. Studies exploring the interactions ...
Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark studying the effects of climate change on weather-dependent electricity systems have found a silver lining in Earth's otherwise fraught future outlook. Temperatures may climb and ...
Mar 6, 2019
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Engineering
Thermoelectric generators, TEGs for short, convert ambient heat into electrical power. They enable maintenance-free, environmentally friendly, and autonomous power supply of the continuously growing number of sensors and ...
Feb 5, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Hongliang Xin, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and his collaborators have devised a new artificial intelligence framework that can accelerate discovery of materials for important ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Hardware
Data-intensive computing applications such as pattern recognition, video processing, database engines and network routers have drastically increased due to the rapid development of big data and artificial intelligence (AI), ...
May 30, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A team of researchers from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI has trained an AI system to respond like a dog using data from an actual animal. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, ...
