Engineering
Scientists at the University of Bristol have successfully used screws as connectors in bamboo without splitting the material.
Oct 9, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
The notion that hundreds or even thousands of electric-powered air taxis could be whisking people over jammed roads is inching away from science fiction and closer to reality.
Oct 9, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A significant breakthrough in the field of solid-state batteries has been achieved by a research team led by Prof. Hu Yongsheng from the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Their study of ...
Oct 9, 2023
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Automotive
Autonomous drone aircraft traffic in uncontrolled airspace below 400 feet altitude is expected to substantially increase in the next few years. Experts anticipate a fleet of nearly 1 million commercial uncrewed aircraft systems ...
Oct 9, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
With its golden hue and light fruity flavor, the beer being sipped by Aaron Tartakovsky looks and tastes just like many others.
Oct 9, 2023
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Business
In a ringing judgment for the right to privacy, the South African Constitutional Court declared sections of the country's main communication surveillance law unconstitutional in February 2021.
Oct 9, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
The statistics surrounding mobile phones are staggering. There are more than 7 billion mobile phone users worldwide, nearly 5 billion of whom use a smartphone.
Oct 9, 2023
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Engineering
Adulteration is a bitter truth in the sweet world of honey. As consumers seek nature's nectar for its purity and health benefits, a shadowy industry taints this golden elixir with hidden additives, most commonly water.
Oct 10, 2023
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Robotics
In recent years, roboticists have developed increasingly sophisticated robotic systems designed to mimic both the structure and function of the human body. This work includes robotic hands, grippers that allow robots to grasp ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Engineering
Scientists have found that concrete's compressive strength can be increased by 4.1% and its flexural strength by 3.4% by adding a small amount of coconut shell (only 5%). The material's performance increased by 6.1% compared ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Engineering
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed electronic "stickers" that measure the force exerted by one object upon another. The force stickers are wireless, run without batteries and fit in tight spaces. ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Artificial intelligence (AI) comes with promises of helping coders code faster, drivers drive safer, and making daily tasks less time-consuming. But in a commentary published October 10 in the journal Joule, the founder of ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Engineering
Long-term exposure to low-frequency noise can cause numerous health problems, but the solution may be found in an unexpected object, a ping-pong ball. Conventionally thought of as the hollow plastic balls that speed through ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Edge detection is the process of outlining objects in a scene by identifying areas where changes in color or intensity signal boundaries between objects. It is vital in computer vision applications like object recognition, ...
Oct 10, 2023
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Robotics
The ocean has always been a force to be reckoned with when it comes to understanding and traversing its seemingly limitless blue waters. Past innovations such as deep-sea submersibles and ocean-observing satellites have helped ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Transistors are crucial components of most electronics on the market today, including computers, smartphones, wearables and numerous other devices. These components, generally based on semiconducting materials, are designed ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A European consortium on Wednesday said it had in a world first successfully tested a gas turbine fully powered by hydrogen, opening the way to slashing carbon emissions in energy-intensive industries like cement.
Oct 11, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
It is now apparent that the mass-produced artifacts of technology in our increasingly densely populated world—whether electronic devices, cars, batteries, phones, household appliances, or industrial robots—are increasingly ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Robotics
In 2013, researchers carried a Microsoft Kinect camera through houses in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. The device's infrared light traced the contours of the buildings, making a rough 3D map. On top of this, the team layered ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Engineering
Research published in the International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing has investigated how the rolling resistance of bicycle tires against the road surface are most affected by ambient temperature and the ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Engineering
Solar panels are an increasingly popular way to generate electricity from the sun's energy. Although humans are still figuring out how to reliably turn that energy into fuel, plants have been doing it for eons through photosynthesis.
Oct 11, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Forget the cloud. Northwestern University engineers have developed a new nanoelectronic device that can perform accurate machine-learning classification tasks in the most energy-efficient manner yet. Using 100-fold less energy ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Engineering
An Australian-led international research team, including a core group of ANSTO scientists, has found that doping a promising material provides a simple, effective method capable of extracting uranium from seawater.
Oct 12, 2023
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Engineering
The future of human-machine interfaces is on the cusp of a revolution with the unveiling of a groundbreaking technology—a stretchable high-resolution multicolor synesthesia display that generates synchronized sound and ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Engineering
Metal halide perovskites, solution-processable materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties, have recently emerged as suitable candidates for developing photovoltaic technology. Recent studies demonstrated metal ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Robotics
Australian researchers have designed an algorithm that can intercept a man-in-the-middle (MitM) cyberattack on an unmanned military robot and shut it down in seconds.
Oct 12, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are investigating a car fuel comprised of a liquid that is converted to hydrogen by a solid catalyst. The used liquid is then emptied from the tank and charged with hydrogen, after ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Security
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Bard have taken the world by storm this year, with companies investing millions to develop these AI tools, and some leading AI chatbots being valued in the billions.
Oct 12, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
An international team of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have launched a new research collaboration that will leverage the same technology behind ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
To examine the global state of AI ethics, a team of researchers from Brazil performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of global guidelines for AI use. Publishing October 13 in in the journal Patterns, the researchers ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Your phone may have more than 15 billion tiny transistors packed into its microprocessor chips. The transistors are made of silicon, metals like gold and copper, and insulators that together take an electric current and convert ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Monash University have developed a new lithium-sulfur battery design with a nanoporous polymer-coated lithium foil anode that reduces the amount of lithium required in a single battery.
Oct 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
This summer, the planet has been suffering from unprecedented heat waves and heavy rainfalls. Developing renewable energy and expanding associated infrastructure has become an essential survival strategy to ensure the sustainability ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, researchers have been exploring the potential of a wide range of new battery technologies, including so-called redox flow batteries. Redox flow batteries, also known as flow batteries, are battery cells that ...
Oct 13, 2023
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Engineering
Which is cheaper: a semi-taut spread or a catenary weight-float?
Oct 13, 2023
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Business
One argument put forward in defense of fossil fuels is that they were a historical necessity, because there was no other viable substitute for much of the 20th century. We owe fossil fuels a debt of gratitude, the argument ...
Oct 14, 2023
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Security
Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines—a so-called "privacy nightmare on wheels," according to US-based research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation.
Oct 14, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Computer vision algorithms have become increasingly advanced over the past decades, enabling the development of sophisticated technologies to monitor specific environments, detect objects of interest in video footage and ...
Oct 14, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
President Joe Biden announced new "hydrogen hubs" across the United States on Friday as part of efforts to boost the economy with green energy ahead of the 2024 election.
Oct 14, 2023
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Business
After two years co-piloting the biggest acquisition in video game history past an onslaught of challenges, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer now moves on to his next quest: making Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard worth the ...
Oct 14, 2023
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Other
The International Olympic Committee is looking at creating an Olympic eSports Games, IOC president Thomas Bach announced on Saturday.
Oct 14, 2023
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