Energy & Green Tech
Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the way for creating new green fuels.
Mar 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A commonplace chemical used in water treatment facilities has been repurposed for large-scale energy storage in a new battery design by researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Engineering
Granular materials, those made up of individual pieces, whether grains of sand or coffee beans or pebbles, are the most abundant form of solid matter on Earth. The way these materials move and react to external forces can ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Though geothermal represents only a tiny fraction of current US energy production, several businesses and President Joe Biden's administration are betting on technological advances to make it a backbone of the green transition.
Mar 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In a study published in Nature Energy, Dr. Perla Balbuena and Dr. Jorge Seminario, professors in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, developed a new method for understanding the ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Hardware
Annealing processors are designed specifically for addressing combinatorial optimization problems, where the task is to find the best solution from a finite set of possibilities. This holds implications for practical applications ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Internet
Aston University researchers have sent data at a speed that is 4.5 million times faster than the average home broadband. The rate is the fastest ever sent by opening up specific new wavelength bands that are not yet used ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A new method safely extracts valuable metals locked up in discarded electronics and low-grade ore using dramatically less energy and fewer chemical materials than current methods, report University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Europe's longest tunnel for testing hyperloop technology opens Wednesday in the Netherlands, with operators hoping passengers could one day be whisked from Amsterdam to Barcelona in a couple of hours.
Mar 26, 2024
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Engineering
When FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Professor Fang Peng was a boy, he saw the power and peril of electricity firsthand. He was in middle school when his remote Chinese hometown first received electric service. His family ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Engineering
The use of recycled concrete and glass aggregates in concrete production has emerged as a highly promising means of increasing the recycling rate of waste materials—but durability issues have plagued some combinations of ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Business
Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba is withdrawing a planned initial public offering for its logistics arm Cainiao, the company said Tuesday, as a major company overhaul faces setbacks.
Mar 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Prof. Ge Ziyi's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel multifunctional additive to passivate defects and promote charge carrier ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A new fabrication process that could be used to build a quantum computer achieves an almost zero failure rate and has the potential to be scaled up, according to new research from engineers and physicists at UCL.
Mar 27, 2024
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Engineering
MIT chemical engineers have devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a chemical precursor that can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels.
Mar 27, 2024
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Engineering
Scientists have developed a new solar-powered system to convert saltwater into fresh drinking water which they say could help reduce dangerous waterborne diseases like cholera.
Mar 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A Washington State University-led study found that widespread, extreme temperature events are often accompanied by greater solar radiation and higher wind speeds that could be captured by solar panels and wind turbines. The ...
Mar 27, 2024
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Robotics
What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a robot know how to do this? ...
Mar 27, 2024
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Engineering
New multidisciplinary research from the University of St Andrews could lead to more efficient televisions, computer screens, and lighting.
Mar 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium-ion batteries contain flammable materials that could pose a safety risk under certain conditions. Dr. Yaser Abu-Lebdeh is one of the researchers using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan ...
Mar 27, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
With nearly 5 million deaths linked to antibiotic resistance globally every year, new ways to combat resistant bacterial strains are urgently needed.
Mar 28, 2024
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Business
A new study of the extent to which "smart utility meters" can improve energy efficiency in manufacturing finds that the willingness of managers actually to make use of the technology is a key driver in reducing energy consumption ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence excels at sorting through information and detecting patterns or trends. But these machine learning algorithms need to be trained with large amounts of data first.
Mar 28, 2024
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Business
Lower-income communities across the United States have long been much slower to adopt solar power than their affluent neighbors, even when local and federal agencies offer tax breaks and other financial incentives.
Mar 28, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers from the University of Potsdam, together with colleagues from other universities, have shown that ion-induced field screening is a dominant factor in the operational stability of perovskite solar cells. Their ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team led by the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Business
The Dutch government on Thursday unveiled a plan worth 2.5 billion euros to retain global firms like chip giant ASML amid fears of a far-right clampdown on immigration.
Mar 28, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Imagine playing a racing game like Mario Kart, using only your brain to execute the complex series of turns in a lap.
Mar 29, 2024
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Computer Sciences
A team of artificial intelligence specialists at Google's DeepMind has developed an AI-based system called SAFE that can be used to fact check the results of LLMs such as ChatGPT. The group has published a paper describing ...
Mar 29, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team led by Prof. Kwon Hyuk-jun of the DGIST Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed a next-generation AI semiconductor technology that mimics the human brain's efficiency in AI ...
Mar 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Tohoku University have made a advancement in battery technology by developing a novel cathode material for rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs) that enables efficient charging and discharging even at low ...
Mar 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team led by Professor Lee Ju-hyuck of DGIST in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering has successfully developed an energy harvesting device that enhances solar energy efficiency by removing and preventing ...
Mar 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Thanks to the low cost of raw materials and long lifespan rendered by their stable structure, iron-based phosphate cathodes are regarded as one of the most promising cathodes for Na-ion batteries (NIBs).
Mar 29, 2024
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Business
Chinese tech giant Huawei said on Friday its profits more than doubled in 2023, as it ramps up efforts to bounce back in a year that saw the company apparently defy US sanctions with the release of a high-end smartphone.
Mar 29, 2024
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Internet
OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.
Mar 30, 2024
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Automotive
Vehicles that can drive themselves have been a long sought after goal both of robotics research and the automotive industry. While various companies have been investing in these vehicles and testing them, they have so far ...
Mar 30, 2024
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Telecom
Professor Jeongho Kwak's from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at DGIST has developed a learning model and resource optimization technology that combines accuracy and efficiency for 6G vision ...
Mar 30, 2024
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Engineering
The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024, is raising questions about just how much engineers can do to prevent such catastrophes from occurring in the future. Here, ...
Mar 30, 2024
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Business
Generative AI—technology such as ChatGPT that creates content when prompted—is affecting how solicitors, judges and barristers work. It's also likely to change the work they are being asked to do.
Mar 30, 2024
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Internet
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google ...
Mar 31, 2024
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Hardware
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are an emerging class of transistors based on organic superconducting materials known for their ability to modulate electrical current in response to small changes in the voltage ...
Mar 31, 2024
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Security
AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online.
Mar 31, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
South Africa's economy has been hard hit by 15 years of loadshedding (rolling blackouts). The country's coal-fired power plants have a maintenance backlog and frequently experience unexpected technical failures. On the other ...
Mar 31, 2024
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Engineering
Catastrophic collapses of major bridges are thankfully rare. Notable examples in the last couple of decades include the failure of the I35-W in Minneapolis in August 2007, and the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa 11 ...
Mar 31, 2024
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