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Energy & Green Tech
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source.
Dec 9, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A 1.3-micrometer-thin elastic conductor for wearable and implantable devices
In recent years, engineers have been working to develop increasingly sophisticated and smaller electronic components that could power the devices of the future. This includes thin and stretchable components that could be ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers harvest electricity from wood soaking in water
Water and wood may one day be all that's needed to provide electrical power for a household. At a time when energy is a critical issue for many millions of people worldwide, scientists in Sweden have managed to generate electricity ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Computer Sciences
An AI app that can spot deepfake videos of famous people
A pair of researchers, one with Gymnasium of Johannes Kepler, the other with the University of California, Berkley, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) application capable of determining whether a video clip of ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Finding simplicity within complexity: Engineer develops method that can predict behavior, improve weather forecasting
Picture a tall stately grandfather clock, its long pendulum swinging back and forth, over and again, keeping rhythm with the time. Scientists can describe that motion with an equation, or dynamical model, and though there ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
New facial recognition technology scans your ear
In the post-COVID world of face coverings and heightened hygiene awareness, the need for new authentication methods that don't require a person's full face to be visible has arisen.
Dec 8, 2022
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Engineering
Scientists shine a light on what comes up when you flush (video)
Thanks to new University of Colorado Boulder research, scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a whole new light—and now, the world can as well.
Dec 8, 2022
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Hardware
New materials for the computer of the future
Novel materials could revolutionize computer technology. Research conducted by scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI using the Swiss Light Source SLS has reached an important milestone along this path.
Dec 8, 2022
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Business
Electric car sales drive toward cleaner air, less mortality
Electric cars—and their continued sales growth—are expected to have a greener, cleaner influence on air pollution and reduce human mortality in most, if not all, U.S. metropolitan areas, according to Cornell University ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Economical eco-friendly fabrication of high efficiency chalcopyrite solar cells
Clean, sustainable energy solutions are essential to meet the ever-increasing energy demands of the human population. High efficiency solar cells are promising candidates to reduce carbon emissions and achieve carbon neutrality. ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Engineering
Creating buildings with an ecological envelope
Nature in city environs has a positive effect on people's well-being. At the same time, biological diversity in urban areas continues to shrink, for example, because of increasing building density. In the Ecolopes project, ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Engineering
New study unveils generalized optical printing of photocurable metal chalcogenides
Patterning of materials is considered an essential prerequisite for the fabrication of high-resolution and high-performance devices. Various methods have been developed, yet conventional manufacturing processes often require ...
Dec 8, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
New battery technology has potential to significantly reduce energy storage costs
An international team of researchers are hoping that a new, low-cost battery which holds four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries and is far cheaper to produce will significantly reduce the cost of transitioning ...
Dec 7, 2022
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Robotics
A transformable robot with an omnidirectional wheel-leg
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute recently created OmniWheg, a robotic system that can adapt its configuration while navigating its surrounding environment, seamlessly changing from a wheeled to a legged robot. ...
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