AI traffic congestion research earns Future Leaders Fellowship
Dr. Mauro Vallati has received a prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship for his innovative research into systems driven by artificial intelligence (AI) for urban traffic controlCredit:...
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A new approach boosts lithium-ion battery efficiency and puts out fires, too
Adding polymers and fireproofing to a battery's current collectors makes it lighter, safer and about 20% more efficientCredit: Yusheng Ye/Stanford University In an entirely new...
Quantum engines with entanglement as fuel?
University of Rochester researcher receives $1 million grant to study quantum thermodynamicsCredit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster In order to make a...
$1.6 Million grant to reverse urinary incontinence
Electrical stimulation of pelvic floor nerves may re-establish strengthCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is working to reverse pelvic floor dysfunction which...
Sprinkled with power: How impurities enhance a thermoelectric material at the atomic level
Scientists elucidate how antimony impurities improve the performance of magnesium silicide, a promising material for converting waste heat into electricityCredit: Dr Masato Kotsugi, Tokyo University...
LiU researchers first to develop an organic battery
Ion-selective electrocatalysis on conducting polymer electrodes -- improving the performance of redox flow batteriesCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University,...
New study reveals how the nervous system mutes or boosts sensory information to make behavioral deci
Credit: Yujia Hu, U-M Life Sciences Institute Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about artificial intelligence. University of Michigan...
New study to assess pandemic’s impact on Canadian veterans and their spouses
Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ON - Lawson Health Research Institute and the Centre of Excellence on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are partnering with...
Making new materials using AI
Credit: Si-Young Choi (POSTECH) There is an old saying, "If rubber is the material that opened the way to the ground, aluminum is the one...
Predicting influenza epidemics
Credit: Linköping University Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a unique method to predict influenza epidemics by combining several sources of data. The forecasts...
When Fock meets Landau: Topology in atom-photon interactions
Credit: @Science China Press Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major research area in condensed matter...
Researchers question the existence of the social brain as a separate system
Russian research team gains deeper insight into the workings of the human brain during group problemCredit: Shpurov IY, Vlasova RM, Rumshiskaya AD, Rozovskaya RI, Mershina...
Ultra-sensitive nanothermometer under ambient conditions
Credit: @Science China Press Nanoscale temperature measurement with high sensitivity is important to investigating many phenomena such as heat dissipation of nano-/micro-electronics, chemical reactions in...
The climate crisis, democracy and governance
New Springer book by an informed EU insider presents a toolbox to ensure that climate policies are receiving the needed social support of civil society,...
Classic optical illusion leads to the discovery of critical neurons in zebrafish.
Credit: © Fumi Kubo at National Institute of Genetics (NIG) By exposing larval zebrafish to a well-known optical illusion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute...
