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
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
While wind energy is becoming one of the fastest-growing energy sources in the world, wind turbine blade waste emerges as a critical issue. Addressing this urgent environmental concern, Lithuania...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-method-turbine-blade-recycling.html
Engineers have invented energy-efficient bricks with scrap materials, including glass, that are normally destined for landfill.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-smart-bricks-landfill.html
Electronic devices are getting more and more complex as they are built to carry out an ever-increasing number of functions. This can be seen in the increased functionality in our personal devices...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-aerogel-based-phase-materials-thermal.html
Korea relies on imports for most of its metal resources, and in recent years, due to resource depletion and rising raw material prices, 'circular resources' that recycle waste metal resources hav...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-high-purity-gold-electrical-electronic.html
Smart windows are an exciting technology, capable of blocking out or letting in more light as needed, potentially reducing energy costs of large buildings by making them more efficient. This tech...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potatoes-corn-beans-breakthrough-smart.html
The development of the world's most performant neural network module for accurately extracting objects from aerial and satellite imagery is expected to have wide applications across various field...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-technology-aerial-satellite-image.html
A sensing technology that can assess the quality of components could transform U.K. industry.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-technology-quality-components-fields-aerospace.html
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have improved the properties of a carbon-based electrode material by exposing it to air plasma. Such treatment turned out to enhance electrode perfo...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-plasma-treatment-electrode-material-fuel.html
It takes a village to nurture social robots. Researchers who develop social robots—ones that people interact with—focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, lik...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-people-features-robot-social.html
A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect on the basis of facial recognition soft...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-tomorrow-ready-ai-ethical.html
Water scarcity around the world is a bigger problem than ever, and desalination is critical to solving it. The best available technologies for separating salt from seawater, though, are costly an...
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-greater-access-membrane.html
The mystery of how futuristic aircraft-embedded engines, featuring an energy-conserving arrangement, make noise has been solved by researchers at the University of Bristol.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-silent-flight-edges-closer.html