A team at the University of Cordoba has developed a methodology that defines the cultivable space between two-axis photovoltaic modules, with the aim of promoting the conversion of existing plant...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-cultivable-space-photovoltaic-combining-agricultural.html
Engineers in Australia have found a new way to make power-pole insulators resistant to fire and electrical sparking, promising to prevent dangerous pole-top fires and reduce blackouts.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-power-pole-insulation-materials.html
Last summer, when the Titan submersible suffered a catastrophic implosion on its way to take passengers to see the Titanic shipwreck, it was a dramatic example of the failure of a thin-walled str...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-buckling-suddenly-collapse.html
A novel 3D printing technology developed by Beihang University researchers was able to print multi-material tubular structures with a minimum wall thickness as thin as 50 micrometers and a minimu...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-3d-ultra-thin-multi-material.html
Over the past decade, researchers all around the world have been finding new and exciting use cases for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Commonly called "drones," UAVs have proved their worth acr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-paper-power-origami-technology-quadcopters.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
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make avia...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-nasa-small-sustainable-jet.html
Computational and experimental methods in materials science are often described as entirely separate affairs. On one side, computer simulations are used to explain and predict the properties of m...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-workflow-robotic-platform.html
Over the past decades, dozens of animal species have become extinct, while thousands of others are now at risk of disappearing. Endangered species include various pollinators, including bees and ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-armed-robot-precision-pollination.html
In the past decade, fires from electronic devices and batteries, from small smartphones to electrical vehicles and airplanes, have repeatedly made headlines. Enhanced computational power has led ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-high-fidelity-efficient-thermal-surfaces.html
Electric tractors are intended to be used in the field instead of traditional fuel tractors and can be used in greenhouse planting, indoor farming, mountainous operations, and other special opera...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-emissions-efficiency-pure-electric-wheel.html
In a new study published in Engineering, Wu Jiangxing's research team unveils a theoretical framework that could revolutionize the landscape of network systems and architectures.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-framework-future-network.html
Creating robots to safely aid disaster victims is one challenge; executing flexible robot control that takes advantage of the material's softness is another. The use of pliable soft materials to ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-built-bionic-method-pneumatic-artificial.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
More than 100 facilities designed to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere are in various stages of development around the world. In the United States, the first direct air capture (DAC...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-team-carbon-capture-global.html
Since 2020, the annual market size of molded fiber product (MFP) worldwide has exceeded $3.5 billion US, and is growing rapidly. The reliability of MFP is closely related to its mechanical proper...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-impact-environmental-factors-molded-fiber.html
A remotely operated underwater robot built by a team of Rice University engineering students pioneers a new way to control buoyancy via water-splitting fuel cells. The device, designed and constr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-underwater-robot-energy-efficient-buoyancy.html
A team of researchers led by Professor Philip C.Y. Chow from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has made a significant breakthrough in the field of orga...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-uncover-key-efficient-stable-solar.html
Thermochromic perovskite is a new color switch material used in energy-saving smart windows. Despite its potential for energy savings, thermochromic perovskite suffers from poor weather resistanc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-mask-perovskite-smart-windows-weather.html
Engine parts from a rare Second World War Photo Reconnaissance Spitfire that was shot down by German armed forces in 1942 and lost until being recovered from a Norwegian peat bog 76 years later a...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-team-rebuild-ww2-spitfire-lost.html
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved a milestone in accelerating and adding features to complex multi-physics simulations run on Graphics Processing Units (G...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-team-multi-physics-simulations-el.html
A team of Rice University students has developed a cold spray metal 3D printing device that relies on pressure and velocity rather than temperature to create a metal part. Their work could help e...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-students-cold-spray-metal-3d.html
When hurricanes threaten tropical shores, "super grids" could come to the rescue.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potential-super-grids-hurricanes-overshadow.html
The industrial production of steel, concrete, or glass requires more than 20% of Germany's total energy consumption. Up to now, 90% of the fuels used for these processes have been of fossil natur...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-liquid-metal-energy-storage.html
Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested many millions of research dollars in attempts to create a robot that can walk or run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case tha...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-robots-outrun-animals.html
A new streaming technique allows playback of data while it is being generated. When scientists want to look at a tiny structure in a material, even one just a few atoms in size, they frequently t...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-scientists-ray-microscopy-method-analysis.html
As a grid-scale energy storage system, flow batteries have gained increasing attention as a means to address the challenges associated with fluctuations and intermittency in renewable energy sour...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-electrodes-energy-storage-batteries.html
Researchers have developed a new manufacturing technique for "silicon/nitrogen-doped carbon composite anode materials." These materials aim to enhance the capacity and stability of lithium-ion ba...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-walled-carbon-nanotubes-doped-nitrogen.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
As China propels itself into a new era of aviation with its significant advancements in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), the nation is on the brink of a transformative shift in low-altitude airspac...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-exploration-altitude-airspace-flight-traffic.html