Engineering
Combined ballistic impacts pose a major challenge for engineers who build structures that must withstand extreme stresses. The combination of blast pressure and impact at high speed increases the chances of greater damage. ...
Feb 2, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Some of the most exciting topics in modern physics, such as high-temperature superconductors and some proposals for quantum computers, come down to the exotic things that happen when these systems hover between two quantum ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
For decades, transistors—the heart of computer chips—have been getting smaller and smaller. As a result, the electronic components in many devices can be made even more compact, faster and also more powerful. But is this ...
Jan 16, 2023
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Business
Researchers from Skoltech and MIPT have studied the economic feasibility of a space advertising mission that would launch a formation of satellites into orbit to reflect sunlight and display commercials in the sky above cities. ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Engineering
In one of the most intensive uses yet of the University of Florida's HiPerGator supercomputer, UF engineers have faithfully reproduced the turbulence and complexity of hot air rising along a wall—a previously impossible ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
In an effort to reduce the risks from climate change, NIST scientists have set out to discover new materials that can draw planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, a technique called "direct air capture."
Aug 25, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
If Russia completely stops its gas supplies in the coming months, it would not be possible to make up the shortfall in the short term—even if there were sufficient availability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the market. ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo fabricated three-dimensional vertically formed field-effect transistors to produce high-density data storage devices by ferroelectric gate insulator ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
A study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers promises to help sharpen accuracy for climate-change models and enable more reliable predictions of extreme weather.
Jun 2, 2022
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Engineering
Lancaster researchers have developed a camera-like device able to image mini whirlpools in quantum liquids for the first time ever.
May 30, 2022
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