Construction begins on energy storage system relying on gravity
Gravity has been the center of wonderment for physicists, mathematicians and thinkers of all kinds for centuries.
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Consumer & Gadgets
A type of simple DIY air filter can be an effective way to filter out indoor air pollutants
A team of researchers from Brown University's School of Public Health, Brown's School of Engineering and Silent Spring Institute found that simple air filtration devices called Corsi-Rosenthal boxes are effective at reducing ...
Dec 23, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A new approach to overcome multi-model forgetting in deep neural networks
In recent years, researchers have developed deep neural networks that can perform a variety of tasks, including visual recognition and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Although many of these models achieved remarkable ...
Robotics
Versatile, portable exosuit assists with both walking and running
Between walking at a leisurely pace and running for your life, human gaits can cover a wide range of speeds. Typically, we choose the gait that allows us to consume the least amount of energy at a given speed. For example, ...
Aug 15, 2019
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A hybrid unicycle that can move on the ground and fly
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, can help humans to tackle a variety of real-world problems; for instance, assisting them during military operations and search and rescue missions, delivering packages ...
Energy & Green Tech
Researchers introduce new energy storage concept to turn high-rise buildings into batteries
With the rapid reduction in the costs of renewable energy generation, such as that of wind and solar power, there is a growing need for energy storage technologies to make sure that electricity supply and demand are balanced ...
May 30, 2022
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Spider-inspired, shape-changing robot now even smaller
This shape-changing robot just got a lot smaller. In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow ...
Nov 4, 2023
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Researchers suggest electric vehicles need to be made lighter
A pair of economists, one with the University of Calgary, the other, the University of California, along with a civil engineer from Carnegie Mellon University, is suggesting in a Comment piece in the journal Nature, that ...
Engineering
This beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Engineers are figuring out how.
Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle.
Oct 21, 2020
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A text-reading robot may help users manage negative emotions
Scientists from the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba devised a text message mediation robot that can help users control their anger when receiving upsetting news. This device may ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Weight
In the physical sciences, the weight of an object is the magnitude, W, of the force that must be applied to an object in order to support it (i.e. hold it at rest) in a gravitational field. The weight of an object equals the magnitude of the gravitational force acting on the object, less the effect of its buoyancy in any fluid in which it might be immersed. Near the surface of the Earth, the acceleration due to gravity is approximately constant; this means that an object's weight near the surface of the Earth is roughly proportional to its mass.
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