The Digital Revolution: Opportunities and challenges for sustainable development
The Digital Revolution, a term often used to describe broad technological change, has entered the public discourse globally and it ...
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New developments with Chinese satellites over the past decade
Credit: National Satellite Meteorological Center of the China Meteorological Administration To date, 17 Chinese self-developed FengYun (FY) meteorological satellites have ...
Experimental mini-accelerator achieves record energy
Coupled terahertz device significantly improves electron beam qualityCredit: DESY, Gesine Born Scientists at DESY have achieved a new world record ...
BASF is collaborating with Riffyn on white biotechnology R&D
Next-generation global data platform to advance development of bio-based solutions and fermentation processesCredit: BASF SE RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, July ...
Satellites analyzing developing gulf potential Tropical Cyclone Two
Credit: Credit: NOAA/NRL A massive complex of thunderstorms over the southeastern United States slid into the northeastern Gulf of Mexico ...
No more trial-and-error when choosing an electrolyte for metal-air batteries
Engineering researchers demonstrate how electrolytes for alkali-metal air batteries can be selected using a single, easy-to-measure parameterCredit: Ramani lab Metal-air ...
Cells synchronize to release toxins in unison
Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service Crouching in the boot-sucking mud of the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, Manu Prakash, ...
New filter enhances robot vision on 6D pose estimation
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Aeropsace Engineering Robots are good at making identical repetitive movements, such as a simple ...
Study: New cars are safer, but women most likely to suffer injury
Credit: UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics Cars built in the last decade have been shown to be safer than older ...
Robot-ants that can jump, communicate with each other and work together
Credit: EPFL Individually, ants have only so much strength and intelligence. However, as a colony, they can use complex strategies ...
Funding for new semiconductor research centre announced
Swansea University to get new Centre for Integrative Semiconductor MaterialsCredit: Stride Treglown A new state-of-the-art facility that will bring together ...
Using artificial intelligence to detect discrimination
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.--A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool for detecting unfair discrimination--such as on the basis of race or gender--has ...
Bringing the blockchain into the physical world
A kit made from everyday objects is bringing the blockchain into the physical worldCredit: Irni Khairuddin A kit made from ...
Beat the heat
University of Utah engineers develop chip that converts wasted heat to usable energyCredit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering ...
UCLA-developed terahertz sensors work at room temperature, unlike current technology
Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detailCredit: UCLA Engineering Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have ...
Quantum sensor breakthrough using naturally occurring vibrations in artificial atoms
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have discovered a new method that could be used to ...
Tour de France pelotons governed by sight, not aerodynamics
Credit: Photo by Quino Al LOGAN, UTAH -- The 2019 Tour de France has just begun. As 190 riders speed ...
Lovebirds ace maneuvers in the dark
Credit: Lentink Lab While pilots rely on radio signals, advanced computations and tools to keep them on course during strong ...
New high-definition satellite radar can detect bridges at risk of collapse from space
Researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Bath have developed a satellite-based early warning system ...
Physicists’ finding could revolutionize information transmission
UC Riverside-led team identifies dark trions as the next carrier of quantum informationCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
