Engineering

Exploring explosives for expanding geothermal energy

Why are scientists setting off small-scale explosions inside 1-foot cubes of plexiglass? They're watching how fractures form and grow in a rocklike substance to see if explosives or propellants, similar to jet fuel, can connect ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Mirror-like photovoltaics get more electricity out of heat

New heat-harnessing "solar" cells that reflect 99% of the energy they can't convert to electricity could help bring down the price of storing renewable energy as heat, as well as harvesting waste heat from exhaust pipes and ...

Computer Sciences

How photonics is revolutionizing convolutional neural networks

In the modern era, there has been explosive growth in the demand for computing power for cognitive image and video processing. While convolutional neural networks offer improved performance for image processing, they also ...

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