Vehicles

Credit: University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Renewable sources of energy such as wind or photovoltaic are intermittent. The production peaks do not necessarily follow the demand peaks. Storing green energy is therefore essential to…
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Credit: UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics Cars built in the last decade have been shown to be safer than older models, including in the most common types of crashes - frontal collisions. However, a new study conducted by researchers at…
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How do we transform our energy system sustainably? If we want to get rid of fossil fuels nationwide, there is a lot to do. It will be a generation project, that much is clear. Empa researchers Martin Rüdisüli, Sinan Teske and Urs Elber…
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Research finds that 'peeking round' corners provides answers Passenger and pedestrian confidence and acceptance will be key to the future and development of autonomous vehicles so researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick have…
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Successful automatic landing with vision assisted navigation Automatic landings have long been standard procedure for commercial aircraft. While major airports have the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe navigation of the…
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With more of us living longer, driving is becoming increasingly important in later life, helping us to stay independent, socially connected and mobile. But driving is also one of the biggest challenges facing older people. Age-related…
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Modelling leads to the optimum size for platinum fuel cell catalystsCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has built platinum nanoparticles for catalysis in fuel cells:…
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Credit: NASA's Langley Research Center An inflatable decelerator technology that could one day help humans land on Mars will fly on the same Atlas V rocket as the JPSS-2 satellite. The Apollo lunar landers fired retro rockets to land…
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Existing, planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early, replaced Irvine, Calif. - The nations that have signed agreements to stabilize the global mean temperature by 2050 will fail to meet their goals unless existing…
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UAV expertiseCredit: UT Arlington Yan Wan, an associate professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington and an expert in multiple unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, networks, led her team to a strong…
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Cutting the power cord for the first untethered flightCredit: Harvard Microrobotics Lab/Harvard SEAS In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, on a late afternoon in August, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny,…
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Electric cars struggle with extreme temperatures, mainly because of impacts on the electrolyte solutions in their lithium-ion batteries. Now, researchers have developed new electrolytes containing multiple additives that work better over…
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While stories in the media present automation as having the potential to eliminate large swaths of jobs in the near future, a new study by researchers Maury Gittleman and Kristen Monaco argues otherwise. These authors found that the…
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Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, was put in the same folded-up configuration that it will be in when mounted on…
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