Engineering
Changing climate patterns have left millions of people vulnerable to weather extremes. As temperature fluctuations become more commonplace around the world, conventional power-guzzling cooling and heating systems need a more ...
Jul 9, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The efficient and large-scale conversion of carbon dioxide into fuels or other valuable substances could help to address the current energy crisis and mitigate the effects of global warming. One of the most effective approaches ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Countless hardware and software solutions created over the past decades draw inspiration from animals and natural phenomena. This includes electronic skins (e-skins), flexible and stretchable electronic circuits designed ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
In the effort to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, one strategy involves harvesting the waste heat that is already being produced by our energy systems. Thermoelectric generators can convert waste heat to clean electricity, ...
May 1, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
For many avid outdoorspeople, summertime and camping go hand in hand. But as climate change continues to drive summer temperatures higher, outdoor recreation could become less relaxing—and cooling technologies like fans ...
Jan 25, 2023
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Robotics
Soft robots are better suited to certain situations than traditional robots. When interacting with an environment, humans or other living things, the inherent softness built into the structure of a robot made of rubber, for ...
Feb 17, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the development of non-volatile phase change memory—a type of electronic memory that can store data even when the power is turned off—in a material that has never displayed the ...
Sep 6, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
As climate change warms the world, we increasingly need to find ways to efficiently cool our buildings—whilst also lowering our emissions to attempt to halt the temperature rise as much as possible. Traditional air conditioners ...
Aug 18, 2021
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Robotics
During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a health care worker's job is assessing people who have symptoms of COVID-19. Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital hope to reduce that ...
Aug 31, 2020
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Robotics
A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings "a kind of intelligence" to the field of soft robotics.
Dec 14, 2022
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