Monday, Sep 15

Tuesday, Sep 16

Energy & Green Tech

Bending salty ice could be a power source of the future

For most of us, ice is a hazard. Whether it's making roads dangerously slippery or covering our sidewalks, this frozen form of water is something we often try to avoid. Yet, a discovery suggests that bending ice and adding ...

Engineering

Decoding the sounds of battery formation and degradation

Before batteries lose power, fail suddenly, or burst into flames, they tend to produce faint sounds over time that provide a signature of the degradation processes going on within their structure. But until now, nobody had ...

Wednesday, Sep 17

Electronics & Semiconductors

A biocompatible and stretchable transistor for implantable devices

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of advanced biomedical devices that could be implanted inside the human body. These devices could be used to monitor biological signals that ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Room-temperature terahertz device opens door to 6G networks

In a world first, researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have successfully developed a resonant tunnel diode (RTD) that operates at room temperature made entirely from Group IV semiconductor materials.

Energy & Green Tech

Scandium doping technique extends sodium-ion battery life

Because lithium is relatively scarce and sodium is abundant in Earth's crust, sodium-ion batteries are being investigated as viable, cost-effective alternatives to the widely used lithium-ion batteries. In these batteries, ...

Thursday, Sep 18

Computer Sciences

Rethinking train delays with quantum power

Train delays can cascade into stalled commutes, economic losses, and vacation snags. Scheduling trains is computationally complex, though: It can take hours or days to solve large transportation networks on traditional computers, ...

Friday, Sep 19

Saturday, Sep 20

Security

Cyberattack hits European airports

Major European airports including Brussels, Berlin and London's Heathrow were Saturday hit by a cyberattack on check-in systems that caused cancellations and long delays for thousands of passengers.

Sunday, Sep 21

Energy & Green Tech

Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift

Close to a small fishing port in southwestern Japan, the slim white turbines of the country's first commercial-scale floating wind farm glimmer offshore, months before a key project in Tokyo's green-energy strategy begins.

Security

Airport cyberattack disrupts more flights across Europe

Fallout from a cyberattack that disrupted check-in systems at several European airports extended into a second full day on Sunday, as passengers faced dozens of canceled and delayed flights—and the impact poised to worsen ...