Engineers at Georgia Tech have designed a process that converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material that could be used for new plastics, chemicals, or fuels.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-approach-reusing-captured-carbon-cheaper.html
As summer approaches, electricity demand surges in the U.S., as homes and businesses crank up the air conditioning. To meet the rising need, many East Coast cities are banking on offshore wind pr...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-offshore-farms.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
A team of video and AI engineers at Adobe Research has developed an AI application called VideoGigaGAN, that can accept a blurry video and enhance it to make it a much shaper product. The team de...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-adobe-videogigagan-ai-blurry-videos.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
Pacemakers, defibrillators, radar technology and electric vehicles all need electrical components called capacitors that can store and release a lot of energy in a matter of a few microseconds. R...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-storage-efficiency-durability-capacitors.html
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and robots are becoming increasingly advanced, exhibiting capabilities that vaguely resemble those of humans. The growing similarities between AIs and huma...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-explores-human-machines-eerie.html
In the quest for more efficient and sustainable energy solutions, a multi-university research team has reached a significant milestone in capacitor technology. Researchers from the University of ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-high-energy-density-capacitors-2d.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
Researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough in developing a small-scale energy storage device capable of stretching, twisting, folding, and wrinkling. Their study is published in the jou...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-rubber-stretchable-energy-storage-device.html
In February, OpenAI released videos created by its generative artificial intelligence program Sora. The strikingly realistic content, produced via simple text prompts, is the latest breakthrough ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-trail-deepfakes-fingerprints-ai-generated.html
Vehicle passengers using VR headsets to pass the time during travel could be set to enjoy games which move at 'ludicrous speed' without experiencing motion sickness, researchers say.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tech-vr-gamers-ludicrous-motion.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
No crystal ball is needed to envision a future that engineers have in mind, one in which air taxis and other flying vehicles ferry passengers between urban locations, avoiding the growing gridloc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-virtual-sensors-aerial-vehicles-stay.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
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
Whether on Earth or in space, autonomous energy is critical in order to keep power systems running independently for extended periods of time, particularly in remote or unpredictable environments...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-ultra-thin-flexible-solar-cells.html
Microsoft has announced the development of a small, locally run family of AI language models called Phi-3 mini. In their Technical Report posted on the arXiv preprint server, the team behind the ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-microsoft-small-localized-language-powerful.html
Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20% of costs for green steel and up to 40% for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their energy-intensive produc...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-competitiveness-energy-intensive-industries-relocation.html
Researchers have found a way to super-charge the 'engine' of sustainable fuel generation—by giving the materials a little twist.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-simple-fuel-generation.html
The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large "semiconductor fabrication plants" or "foundries." New research by KU Leuven and imec shows that...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potential-thin-electronics-flexible-chip.html
Electric vehicles and portable electronic devices such as laptops and mobile phones are unthinkable without lithium-ion batteries. The problem is highly toxic materials such as cobalt are often u...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-sulfur-based-cathodes.html
Estuaries—where freshwater rivers meet the salty sea—are great locations for birdwatching and kayaking. In these areas, waters containing different salt concentrations mix and may be sources ...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-salt-battery-harvests-osmotic-energy.html
In recent years, developers have introduced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can simulate or reproduce various human abilities, such as recognizing objects in images, answering questions...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-emulating-neurodegeneration-aging-artificial-intelligence.html
Using data from a 2002 game show, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher has taught a computer how to tell if you are lying.
Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students at the University of Bristol suggest.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-super-mario-hackers-software-bugs.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
Health-monitoring apps can help people manage chronic diseases or stay on track with fitness goals, using nothing more than a smartphone. However, these apps can be slow and energy-inefficient be...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tiny-chip-safeguard-user-enabling.html
A new paper from researchers at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, highlights the benefits and risks of personalizing Large Language Models (LLMS) to their users.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-personalization-potential-democratize-llms.html