Scientific machine learning enables potential to design at ‘near-interactive speeds’
Researchers are developing deep learning methods to dramatically reduce the cost and turnaround of conceptual design computations for complex energy ...
Month: June 2020
NASA finds heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Cristobal
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The third tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Ocean basin has been generating large amounts of rainfall over ...
Graphene and 2D materials could move electronics beyond ‘Moore’s Law’
Credit: The University of Manchester A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA ...
Studies of brain activity aren’t as useful as scientists thought
Duke researcher questions 15 years of his own work with a reexamination of functional MRI dataCredit: Annchen Knodt, Duke University ...
HKBU establishes six interdisciplinary research laboratories to expand research strengths
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University has established six interdisciplinary research laboratories that expand on the University's ...
Etching the road to a hydrogen economy using plasma jets
Scientists improve light-driven water-splitting to produce hydrogen by etching the reaction catalyst with plasma jets in solutionCredit: Tokyo University of ...
Boosting energy efficiency of 2D material electronics using topological semimetal
Credit: SUTD Driven by the ever-increasing desires of the consumer market for smaller, lighter and smarter devices, the size of ...
Novel bioaccumulative compounds found in marine bivalves
Nontarget and target screening of organohalogen compounds in mussels and sediment from Hiroshima Bay, JapanCredit: Reprinted with permission from Environmental ...
New test of dark energy and expansion from cosmic structures
Credit: Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution ...
Anisotropy of spin-lattice relaxations in molecular magnets
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Scientists from IFJ PAN in cooperation with researchers from the Nara Women's University (Japan) and the ...
Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08714 Scientists have tried to develop synthetic red blood cells that mimic the ...
Next-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty
HAMR-JR is one of the smallest and most dexterous robots to dateCredit: (Image courtesy of Kaushik Jayaram/Harvard SEAS) This itsy-bitsy ...
Double-sided solar panels that follow the sun prove most cost effective
Credit: Rodríguez-Gallegos et al./Joule Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and ...
Super water-repellent materials are now durable enough for the real world
A new armour-plated superhydrophobic material has been developed for potential uses in medical equipment, solar panels and moreCredit: Aalto University ...
New laser system provides 3D reconstructions of living deep-sea animals and mucus filters
Credit: Image: © 2020 MBARI Living in an essentially zero-gravity environment, many deep-sea animals have evolved soft, gelatinous bodies and ...
Active particles with light-switchable propulsion direction and reversible interactions
Credit: Source: UW Physics, M. Lisicki Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, ETH in Zurich ...
Solar hydrogen production: Splitting water with UV is now at almost 100% quantum efficiency
Credit: Copyright © 2020 The Office of Public Relations, Shinshu University Pour yourself a glass of water and take a ...
New research leads to lighter and greener bridges
A recently completed research project revealed the potential for reducing material used for a suspension bridge deck by more than ...
A new strategy for the optimal electroreduction of Co2 to high-value products
Credit: KAIST Researchers suggest that modulation of local CO2 concentration improves the selectivity, conversion rate, and electrode stability, and shed ...
Pioneer of modern datacenter design receives Eckert-Mauchly Award
Google's Luiz Barroso recognized as visionary architect of warehouse-scale computingCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...
