Consumer & Gadgets
The use of e-scooters has increased significantly in recent years, but so has the number of accidents involving this relatively new form of transport. At the same time, knowledge about injury mechanisms in this area was still ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Internet
In a world that relies on high-speed internet and seamless communication, the absence of a reliable fiber connection can be a significant hurdle. Fortunately, a cutting-edge technology known as free-space optical communication ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Engineering
To predict how materials behave, one must first know their characteristics. Further, suppose you want to manipulate or design new materials and have them serve some technological purpose in, for example, electronic or photonic ...
Oct 2, 2023
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Robotics
A team of mechanical engineers at Chung-Ang University in South Korea has developed an exosuit that can help runners cover short distances faster. Their project is reported in the journal Science Robotics.
Engineering
A team of chemists and engineers affiliated with a host of institutions in China, working with one colleague from the U.S. and another from the U.K., has developed new technology that harvests energy from low-speed wind. ...
Engineering
Multi-story buildings are assembled over cautiously to withstand wind strengths, researchers have found.
Sep 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A model to map energy demand down to street level shows cooling demand in London grew by 5% per year between 1980 and 2022 as summers heat up.
Sep 14, 2023
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Automotive
As drivers pursue a better driving environment, they perform lane changes to get out of the currently congested lane. But changing lanes can also disrupt or even interrupt traffic flow, leading to worsening congestion. Is ...
Sep 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Computing is at an inflection point. Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on an electronic chip will double about every two years, is slowing down due to the physical limits of fitting more transistors ...
Sep 11, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow—up to 60,000 ...
Aug 28, 2023
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