The challenge before Johns Hopkins University engineering students: Take a leaf blower, but make it quiet. Make it work as powerfully as ever, but do not allow it to emit the ear-piercing caterwa...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-students-quieter-leaf-blower.html
Aurora's speed and artificial intelligence capabilities will transform scientific research and enable breakthroughs in some of the world's most pressing challenges, from climate and materials sci...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-aurora-supercomputer-exascale-barrier.html
North Carolina State University researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows people who manufacture metal machine parts with 3D printing technologies to conduct automated quality control...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-technique-finishing-3d-machine.html
Scientists from Nanjing, China, have developed eye-tracking smart content lenses based on radio frequency tags that can be used for various applications, including health care and augmented reali...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-eyes-tomorrow-smart-contact-lenses.html
The global move toward more sustainable, green energy has increased power reserves and the demand for energy storage devices. Unfortunately, some materials for these devices can be expensive and ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-scientists-chicken-fat-energy-storage.html
Researchers in the emerging field of spatial computing have developed a prototype augmented reality headset that uses holographic imaging to overlay full-color, 3D moving images on the lenses of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-ai-holography-3d-augmented-reality.html
When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-video-swarms-miniature-robots-simultaneously.html
Professor Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich and Austria's Complexity Science Hub expects future digital technologies to penetrate the human body even more in the future. However, he believes that societ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-converging-technologies.html
We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor's blaring TV to sounds from a co-worker's cubicle, unwanted noise remains a resounding p...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-suppressing-silk-noise-transmission-large.html
A new method to deliver a quality cold brew coffee in less than three minutes solidifies Australia's position as the innovators of modern coffee, according to researchers from The University of Q...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-australian-ultrasonic-cold-brew-coffee.html
As millions of voters prepare for next month's European Parliament elections, AFP explores some of the deep transformations the 27-member bloc has made in the field of technology.
Pursuing a viable alternative to invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) has been a continued research focus of Carnegie Mellon University's He Lab. In 2019, the group used a noninvasive BCI to...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-refined-ai-approach-noninvasive-brain.html
A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-stretchable-skin-robots-human-sensitivity.html
In a world first, University of Sydney researchers have developed a chemical process using plasma that could create sustainable jet fuel from methane gas emitted from landfills, potentially creat...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-methane-emissions-landfill-sustainable-jet.html
The Australian government has announced a pledge of approximately A$940 million (US$617 million) to PsiQuantum, a quantum computing start-up company based in Silicon Valley.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-australia-billion-dollar-world-quantum.html
Researchers have developed a technique to move objects around with a jet of wind. The new approach makes it possible to manipulate objects at a distance and could be integrated into robots to giv...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-harness-tool.html
Researchers at Aalto University were looking for better ways to instruct dance choreography in virtual reality. The new WAVE technique they developed will be presented in May at the CHI conferenc...
On a three-lane test track along the Monongahela River, an 18-wheel tractor-trailer rounded a curve. No one was on board.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tractor-trailers-aboard-future-trucks.html
A team of physicists and engineers at Vector Atomic, Inc., a maker of navigation and communications equipment, has developed a new kind of atomic clock that they claim is both ultra-precise and s...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-atomic-clock-ultra-precise.html
Ever since the ancient Egyptians hammered two pieces of gold together until they fused, the art of welding has continuously progressed.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-machine-reality-welders.html
For Michael Saliba and Mahdi Malekshahi, it was one of those moments in science when good experimental results raised more questions. The University of Stuttgart researchers recently developed a ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-insights-gen-solar-cells.html
Many things can go wrong when additively manufacturing (AM) metal and without in-situ process monitoring, defects can only be detected and characterized after a product is built. Most commonly, m...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-deep-alternative-laser-powder-bed.html
The world's largest 3D printer has created a house that can cut construction time and labor. An even larger printer unveiled on Tuesday may one day create entire neighborhoods.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-world-largest-3d-printer-university.html
Researchers have unveiled a technology that propels the field of wireless communication forward. This cutting-edge design, termed a reconfigurable transmissive metasurface, utilizes a synergistic...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-metasurface-precision-wireless.html
Bigwigs behind a Saudi megacity dogged by questions about its viability have wrapped up a tour courting Chinese investors, detailing plans for a futuristic ski resort and 170-kilometer-long skysc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-splashy-saudi-mega-neom-chinese.html
Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars—but offered no timetable to make it available to the public, citing concerns about fa...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-lifelike-avatar-ai-tech.html
The latest wearable devices, such as Samsung's Galaxy Ring and Apple's Vision Pro, are taking health care a step further and even enabling people to work virtually. Given the characteristics of w...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-versatile-fibers-energy-storage-capacity.html
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of drivers deliver packages and parcels to customers and companies each day, with many click-to-door times averaging only a few days. Coordinating a supp...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-qa-mile-logistics-machine.html
A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanor and a pleasantly high-pitched voice.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-culturally-insensitive-scientists.html
Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer...
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