Energy & Green Tech
When it comes to predicting the costs of new energy systems and technologies, researchers must consider learning rates, which are estimated measures of technological progress. In fact, technological advances are typically ...
Engineering
Adhesive tape or sticky notes are easy to attach to a surface, but are difficult to remove. This phenomenon, known as adhesion hysteresis, can be fundamentally observed in soft, elastic materials: Adhesive contact is formed ...
Mar 8, 2024
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Robotics
A group of robot engineers at the University of California Santa Barbara has designed and built a robot that mimics the way roots and vines move toward moisture sources. They describe their approach and robot prototype in ...
Engineering
Wildfires may seem unpredictable, leaving random ruin in their wake.
Nov 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
The current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on clean energy technologies can harm national and global efforts to mitigate climate change, reveals a new University of California San Diego study published in Science.
Sep 15, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
How do we reduce the carbon impact of an already green technology?
Jul 4, 2022
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Robotics
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, have assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Jun 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long-term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published ...
Dec 6, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
Are humans taking more resources from the Earth than the planet can safely produce? The answer lies partly in whether we can "dematerialize," or reduce the amount of materials needed to produce goods and services.
Jan 19, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
A quickly growing global population presents a variety of challenges, and raises the critical question: How can we sustainably meet energy needs while considering—and preventing—environmental and human impacts? An ever-increasing ...
May 30, 2016
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