Twitter said Friday it would offer a cash "bounty" to users and researchers to help root out algorithmic bias on the social media ...
Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning
Machine-learning algorithms are used to find patterns in data that humans wouldn't otherwise notice, and are being deployed to help info...
Autonomous vehicles learning to drive by mimicking others
Self-driving cars are powered by machine learning algorithms that require vast amounts of driving data in order to function safely. But if s...
China nuclear reactor shut down for maintenance after damage
A reactor at a nuclear plant in southern China has been shut down because it is damaged, the operator said Friday, but it insisted there wer...
How will machine learning change science?
Machine learning has burst onto the scene in the past two decades and will be a defining technology of the future. It is transforming large ...
New financial analysis tool for long-duration energy storage in deeply decarbonized grids
Renewable energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, and hydro continue to gain popularity worldwide. As more and more renewable ge...
Equity principles introduced into the algorithm development process for public health modeling
In the U.S., the place where one was born, one's social and economic background, the neighborhoods in which one spends one's formati...
Less communication among robots allows them to make better decisions
New research that could help us use swarms of robots to tackle forest fires, conduct search and rescue operations at sea and diagnose proble...
First machine-learning approach to forensic DNA analysis
As the field of forensics evolves, more complex evidence is being processed with greater precision, sensitivity and speed than ever before. ...
Development of CO2-free fermentation technology amid surging demand for low-carbon biofuel
As much as one-third of the carbon in sugar is lost as carbon dioxide (CO2) during fermentation processes that use biomass to make renewable...
New solid electrolyte promises cheaper, better all-solid-state lithium batteries
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have designed a novel mat...
3D optical memory devices using fluorescent materials would significantly cut global electricity consumption
There's always room for another bright idea when it comes to safely storing the colossal amounts of electronic information we produce ev...
Honeypot security technique can also stop attacks in natural language processing
As online fake news detectors and spam filters become more sophisticated, so do attackers' methods to trick them—including attacks throu...
Optimizing phase change materials could reduce power plant water consumption
The food-water-energy nexus dictates that there is a direct link between these three necessities, and stressing one directly impacts the sup...
Privacy concerns over contact-free QR codes used in restaurants
Diners could be serving up a lot more than just their burger order if they use the contact-free QR codes suddenly available at many restaura...
Optimizing phase change materials could reduce power plant water consumption
The food-water-energy nexus dictates that there is a direct link between these three necessities, and stressing one directly impacts the sup...
From grey to green: world cities uprooting the urban jungle
From lettuces farmed on New York's skyline to thick corridors of trees occupying once desolate Colombian roadsides, green initiatives ar...
Researchers pave the way toward finding suitable solvents for perovskite inks
Perovskite solar cells have gained attention in recent years because of their ability to deliver high photovoltaic performance under a low-c...
Dark mode may not save battery life as much as anticipated
When Android and Apple operating system updates started giving users the option to put their smartphones in dark mode, the feature showed po...
A new taxonomy to characterize human grasp types in videos
Over the past few decades, roboticists and computer scientists have developed a variety of data-based techniques for teaching robots how to ...
Fact check: Facebook didn't pull the plug on two chatbots because they created a language
The claim: Facebook discontinued two "AI robots" after they developed their own language from News on Artificial Intelligence an...
Dark mode may not save battery life as much as anticipated
When Android and Apple operating system updates started giving users the option to put their smartphones in dark mode, the feature showed po...
Indiana to test 'magment': a magnetized concrete to charge electric vehicles
The governor of Indiana has announced that the Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University will soon begin testing the viabil...
Researchers design AI system for social distance breach detection
Griffith University researchers have developed an AI video surveillance system to detect social distancing breaches in an airport without co...
Neural network trained to properly name organic molecules
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Syntelly start-up have developed and trained a neur...
Machine learning applications need less data than has been assumed
A combined team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta has found that at least some machine le...
Hybrid cars are twice as vulnerable to supply chain issues as gas-powered models
The global computer chip shortage has hit car manufacturers especially hard, indicating the importance of supply chain resilience. Yet, for ...
Offshore wind turbines could number 30,000 by 2030: New ideas in ocean engineering are needed to install them
The UK is planning to install 40 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030—enough to provide electricity to every home in the country. This w...
Lower battery costs, high value of backup power influence distributed storage deployment
There is economic potential for up to 490 gigawatts per hour of behind-the-meter battery storage in the United States by 2050 in residential...
'AirBubble' offers respite from Warsaw pollution
At a new playground in central Warsaw, algae feast on pollutants and carbon dioxide to provide a bubble of clean oxygen in a city ranked as ...
Smart Eye Deputy CEO Rana el Kaliouby talks automotive AI
Rana el Kaliouby co-founded and led Boston startup Affectiva, which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze mood and emo...
Research illuminates how energy costs vary nationwide
Costs for energy are borne unequally across the U.S. population. Argonne research is providing key data that can help inform decisions about...
New AI system predicts building energy rates in less than a second
At a time when the UK is trying to reach net zero by 2050, the timely, accurate calculation of energy efficiency is a vital component of the...
Rougher interfaces may increase efficiency of next-generation solar cells
In simulations and experiments, researchers demonstrate that introducing tiny nanoscale texturing on the surfaces of materials in perovskite...
'Founding Father' of lithium-ion batteries helps solve 40-year problem with his invention
In the late 1970s, M. Stanley Whittingham was the first to describe the concept of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, an achievement for wh...
Hiding malware inside AI neural networks
A trio of researchers at Cornell University has found that it is possible to hide malware code inside of AI neural networks. Zhi Wang, Chaog...
The 'privacy by design' approach for mobile apps: Why it's not enough
The mobile apps installed on our smartphones are one of the biggest threats to our digital privacy. They are capable of collecting vast amou...
Bipedal robot makes history by learning to run, completing a 5K
Cassie the robot, invented at Oregon State University and produced by OSU spinout company Agility Robotics, has made history by traversing 5...
Up to 78 million batteries will be discarded daily by 2025
About 78 million batteries powering IoT devices will be dumped globally every day by 2025 if nothing is done to improve their lifespan. This...
Converting renewable electricity into stable molecules could provide long-term energy storage
For renewable energy and energy storage technologies, variation is the name of the game. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Scienc...
Development of a novel technology to check body temperature with smartphone camera
Thermal-imaging sensors that detect and capture images of the heat signatures of human bodies and other subjects have recently sprung into u...
Form Energy announces Iron-Air 100-hour storage battery
Officials with battery maker Form Energy have announced the development of the Iron-Air 100-hour storage battery—a battery meant to store el...
Parks in UK count on new technology to monitor footfalls
New technology is being trialed at selected parks across the UK to count people using phone signals, providing valuable data that can be use...
Study: More than 4.6 million English homes experience summertime overheating
The summer of 2018 saw temperatures far above the long-term average in the Northern Hemisphere. It was England's hottest ever summer, wi...
Ultra-wideband micro-location technology developed
From Augmented Reality games to automatic car locks: Gauging the location of devices is becoming increasingly important in modern life. Exce...
Nimble robotic arms that perform delicate surgery may be one step closer to reality
Researchers at Northeastern are working to eliminate the stiff, herky-jerky motions in robotic arms to make them graceful and deft enough to...
New type of wireless charger can charge multiple devices simultaneously
Mobile phones and tablets have allowed us to stay in touch regardless of our location, yet they still rely on plugs, sockets, and charging p...
Europe to boost battery production as electric shift accelerates
As electric car sales take off and petrol engines face being phased out by 2035, Europe is looking to develop its own battery production bas...
Going electric: Carmakers make the switch
Leading automakers have signalled their intention to scrap internal combustion engines by 2030 or cut back sharply on their production as th...
Electric vehicle maker Rivian raises another $2.5 bn
Electric vehicle maker Rivian on Friday said it has raised another $2.5 billion from backers including Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund as i...
Plans for largest US solar field north of Vegas scrapped
The push to transition from carbon-emitting fuel sources to renewable energy is hitting a roadblock in Nevada, where solar power developers ...
Tokyo Olympic flame is the first powered by hydrogen
Inspired by the sun, the Tokyo Olympic cauldron is designed to be better for the planet. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Scienc...
Meeting global climate targets will lead to 8 million more energy jobs worldwide by 2050
Researchers created a global dataset of job footprints in 50 countries and used a model to investigate how trying to meet the Paris Agreemen...
New malware detection for Android at the source code level
There are numerous malware detection and antivirus apps for mobile devices running the Android operating system. However, a team in China in...
How Android unlocking patterns could be made more secure
Users of Android devices can unlock the display by entering a pattern. This function is convenient and thus popular—however, less secure tha...
Better behaving bots: Researcher helps robots problem solve and care
ANU researcher Hanna Kurniawati is helping robots problem solve and care. Her work has not just shaped how AI works every day; it's been...
A 10-year look at the battery supply chain in America
Electric vehicles (EVs) can help put America on the path toward a clean energy economy. Yet the supply chain behind them is not fully unders...
Mineral alchemy taps into key ingredients for green energy revolution: Salt and potassium
Sodium, the main constituent in salt, and potassium alteration are associated with some of the world's most valuable ore deposits. fro...
Sales of electric cars charge ahead in Europe
Electric cars—key to reducing emissions and meeting climate change goals—have boosted their market share in Europe, data showed Friday, as t...
'Wrapping' anodes in 3D carbon nanosheets: The next big thing in li-ion battery technology
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which are a renewable source of energy for electrical devices or electric vehicles, have attracted much attent...
Global approach is needed on battery regulation
New European Union regulations on batteries could offer a huge boost to the global decarbonisation mission—but only if it leverages its poli...
Visualizing a city's energy use
The building sector in the U.S. accounts for 39 percent of energy use, with commercial buildings responsible for about half of that. As citi...
Fully renewable energy feasible for Samoa
The future of Samoa's electricity system could go green, a University of Otago study has shown. from Energy & Green Tech News - En...
Can AI chatbots help fill the empathy gap?
Stressed out? Need to talk? Turning to a chatbot for emotional support might help. from News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learni...
Microstructure morphology fine-tuning of active layer film boosts organic solar cell efficiency
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs) are demonstrated to be improved via the microstructure morphology fine-t...
The sunlight that powers solar panels also damages them: 'Gallium doping' is providing a solution
Solar power is already the cheapest form of electricity generation, and its cost will continue to fall as more improvements emerge in the te...
Merkel: No way back on German plan to end nuclear power use
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended her decision to end Germany's use of nuclear power next year, but acknowledged that it wil...
Recirculating off-gas contributes to carbon capture
Every ton of silicon produced leads to emissions of around 5 tons of CO₂. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Sciences News, Green ...
Smog tower to help Delhi breathe but experts sceptical
A new attempt at purifying New Delhi's notoriously polluted air will see forty giant fans push out filtered air in the heart of the Indi...
Team streamlines neural networks to be more adept at computing on encrypted data
This week, at the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 21), researchers at the NYU Center for Cyber Security at the NYU T...
New simulator helps robots sharpen their cutting skills
Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Computer Science and NVIDIA have unveiled a new simulator for rob...
Japan ups 2030 renewables goal in draft energy policy
Japan aims to hike its 2030 renewable energy target as part of efforts to slash emissions, according to draft documents released Wednesday, ...
Agency eyes 'right-to-repair' rules to aid consumers, shops
Americans would be freer to repair their broken cellphones, computers, videogame consoles and even tractors themselves or to use independent...
Better batteries for grid-scale energy storage
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have designed a new class of molten sodium batteries for grid-scale energy storage. The new batt...
A global comparison of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars
A far-reaching new study of the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger cars, including SUVs, draws sharp and meticulous di...
Samsung may soon 'unfold' plans for new foldable and flip smartphones
Samsung looks to be ready to unveil some new flip and foldable phones. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics News, Electronic Gadge...
Ford, Argo AI team with Lyft to launch self-driving robotaxi service in Miami, Austin
Ford Motor Co. and Argo AI will launch a limited robotaxi service on ride-sharing company Lyft's platform beginning later this year, the...
Novel scientific computing method for studying utility-scale renewable power systems
The United States has 37 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar capacity—enough to power over 4,070,000,000 LED lights—with an impressive add...
How managing building energy demand can aid the clean energy transition
Since buildings consume 75% of electricity in the U.S., they offer great potential for saving energy and reducing the demands on our rapidly...
Printing perovskite solar cells
To reach the target of carbon neutral, a transition from fossil energy to renewable energy generation is indispensable. Photovoltaic technol...
Green hydrogen production from curtailed wind and solar power
Designing future low-carbon energy systems to use power generated in excess of the grid's demands to produce hydrogen fuel could substan...
How Pegasus spyware works and how it affects your phone
A major journalistic investigation has found evidence of malicious software being used by governments around the world, including allegation...
Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actions
A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even t...
Mind and matter: Modeling the human brain with machine learning
We all like to think that we know ourselves best, but given that our brain activity is largely governed by our subconscious mind, it is prob...
Enzyme-based plastics recycling is more energy efficient, better for environment
Researchers in the BOTTLE Consortium, including from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (N...
Machine learning models to help photovoltaic systems find their place
With the looming threat of climate change, it is high time we embrace renewable energy sources on a larger scale. Photovoltaic systems, whic...
The Indus basin: Untapped potential for long-term energy storage
Hydropower has massive potential as a source of clean electricity, and the Indus basin can be a key player in fulfilling long-term energy st...
Data identifies turbine wake clustering, improves wind farm productivity via yaw control
In the wind power industry, optimization of yaw, the alignment of a wind turbine's angle relative to the horizonal plane, has long shown...
Neural model seeks 'inappropriateness' to reduce chatbot awkwardness
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Mobile TeleSystems have introduced the notion of inappropriate text messages and release...
The US Army tried mobile nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago, and it didn't go well
In a tunnel 40 feet beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, a Geiger counter screamed. It was 1964, the height of the Cold War. U.S....
Solar cells: Layer of three crystals produces a thousand times more power
The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodical...
Expanding wind energy while preserving scenery
Wind energy is of outstanding importance to the energy transition in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office, its share in tota...
No excuse to continue reliance on fossil fuels, says leading nanotechnologist
One of the leading thinkers in nanoscience has called on the energy materials community to help finally put an end to the world's relian...
New algorithm may help autonomous vehicles navigate narrow, crowded streets
It is a scenario familiar to anyone who has driven down a crowded, narrow street: Parked cars line both sides, and there isn't enough sp...
A machine learning breakthrough: Using satellite images to improve human lives
More than 700 imaging satellites are orbiting the earth, and every day they beam vast oceans of information—including data that reflects cli...
New weapons testing capability produces richer data, saves time, cost
A team of Sandia National Laboratories engineers developed a new testing capability in support of its nuclear weapons mission. The team comp...
Renewable energy OK, but not too close to home
When it comes to transitioning from carbon-based to renewable source energy systems, Americans are on board. They're less keen, however,...
The extensive search for cation substitution in lithium-ion batteries
Powering everything from smartphones to electric cars, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have evolved markedly with advances in technology and re...
The perverse cycle of a warming climate and the rise of air conditioners
"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," Noel Coward famously sang in 1931, mocking British colonials who ventured out ...
The perverse cycle of a warming climate and the rise of air conditioners
"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," Noel Coward famously sang in 1931, mocking British colonials who ventured out ...
Scientists adopt deep learning for multi-object tracking
Computer vision has progressed much over the past decade and made its way into all sorts of relevant applications, both in academia and in o...
Novel techniques extract more accurate data from images degraded by environmental factors
Computer vision technology is increasingly used in areas such as automatic surveillance systems, self-driving cars, facial recognition, heal...
Cheap, sustainable, readily available plasma tech could replace rare iridium
A team led by a researcher from the University of Sydney has developed a low-cost, sustainable, and readily available technology that can di...
Electric car lithium demand powers mining revival in UK
As the global auto sector accelerates production of electric cars, one British company is hoping to cash in from mining lithium needed to ma...
The Storywrangler: Scientists create tool to explore billions of social media messages, potentially predict turmoils
For thousands of years, people looked into the night sky with their naked eyes—and told stories about the few visible stars. Then we invente...
From genes to memes: Algorithm may help scientists demystify complex networks
From biochemical reactions that produce cancers, to the latest memes virally spreading across social media, simple actions can generate comp...
Valve takes on Nintendo Switch with new games console
A new battle for dominance of the lucrative games console market is looming after US company Valve unveiled a device to rival the hugely pop...
New optimization method for computational design of industrial applications
In the field of industrial engineering, using simulations to model, predict and even optimize the response of a system or device is widespre...
Neuro-evolutionary robotics: A gap between simulation and reality
Neuro-evolutionary robotics is an attractive approach to realize collective behaviors for swarms of robots. Despite the large number of stud...
Maximizing efficiency of labs that work with perishable biomolecules
A team of scientists led by Associate Professor Haruka Ozaki of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Tsukuba...
LG is finally releasing its TV with rollable screen in the US—with $100,000 price tag
Remember LG's TV with a rollable screen? It's finally arriving in the U.S., but at a steep price. from Consumer Electronics News -...
Learning aids: New method helps train computer vision algorithms on limited data
Researchers from Skoltech have found a way to help computer vision algorithms process satellite images of the Earth more accurately, even wi...
Removing the lead hazard from perovskite solar cells
Although they offer a very promising solution for capturing solar energy, perovskite solar cells contain lead, which is toxic to the environ...
Digital assistants created for e-commerce adapt themselves to each shop's needs
The pandemic has taught us that almost all companies have to sell on the internet. Bots are a technology that facilitates e-commerce. They a...
Chemists develop novel electrolyser for hydrogen production
In a recent Nature Communications paper, a group of researchers led by Dr. Ning Yan of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences ...
Users must now choose between male and female voice options for Siri
As of March 31, 2021, when Apple released the iOS 14.5 beta update to its operating system, Siri no longer defaults to a female voice when u...
Traveling through deep time to find copper for a clean energy future
More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050....
Traveling through deep time to find copper for a clean energy future
More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050....
Road to future: Dutch province unveils solar bicycle path
Authorities in a central Dutch province opened what they are billing as the world's longest solar bicycle path Wednesday, mixing sustain...
Have an old iPhone? It might not support iOS 15 and you'll miss out on these features
This fall for tech lovers means new iPhones, which also usher in the arrival of a new version of iOS. from Consumer Electronics News - Ele...
Swarm of autonomous tiny drones can localize gas leaks
When there is a gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site, human firefighters currently need to go in with gas sensing instrumen...
Researchers convert tamarind shells into an energy source for vehicles
Shells of tamarind, a tropical fruit consumed worldwide, are discarded during food production. As they are bulky, tamarind shells take up a ...
Ammonia may be the key to making long-haul shipping green
SINTEF research scientist Andrea Gruber crunches numbers, albeit with the help of the supercomputer "Betzy." A seemingly infinite ...
Encrypting photos on the cloud to keep them private
The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A new study from computer s...
Looking Glass develops second-generation holographic displays
Holographic display maker Looking Glass has announced that it has developed two versions of its second-generation holographic display. On it...
Putting a strain on semiconductors for next-gen chips
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the U.S. and Singapore have created a neural network that can help tweak semiconductor crysta...
Enabling the 'imagination' of artificial intelligence
A team of researchers at USC is helping AI imagine the unseen, a technique that could also lead to fairer AI, new medicines and increased au...
Banning fossil fuels in sub-Saharan Africa could slow the transition to renewable energy
Worldwide, the ugly consequences of a warming planet are rearing their heads. Many countries are increasing efforts to decarbonise their ene...
What electric vehicle batteries will look like in the future
"Gigafactories" could one day be churning out millions of electric vehicle batteries in the UK. The government has already committ...
The hidden culprit killing lithium-metal batteries from the inside
For decades, scientists have tried to make reliable lithium-metal batteries. These high-performance storage cells hold 50% more energy than ...
Study puts charge into drive for sustainable lithium production
An important new study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has yielded critical fresh in...
Singapore unveils one of world's biggest floating solar farms
Singapore Wednesday unveiled one of the world's biggest floating solar power farms, covering an area the size of 45 football pitches, as...
Two-thirds of Americans, 227 million, play video games. For many games were an escape, stress relief in pandemic
Yes, we did play more video games during the coronavirus pandemic. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics News, Electronic Gadget Ne...
Researchers demonstrate low-temperature and effective ex situ group V doping of polycrystalline solar cells
In recent years, engineers have created a variety of solar technologies using different types of materials. These include solar cells based ...
Electrify America to double EV charging stations by 2025
Electrify America, an electric vehicle charging network funded with money paid by Volkswagen as punishment for its emissions cheating scanda...
Getting dressed with help from robots
Basic safety needs in the paleolithic era have largely evolved with the onset of the industrial and cognitive revolutions. We interact a lit...
Transport in 2050: Safer, cleaner and cost efficient?
A Cornell University-led team has calculated that by the year 2050, vehicle electrification, driverless cars and ride sharing could slash U....
New platform allows autonomous vehicles to safely drive at small distances
Ph.D. student Robbin van Hoek has designed a new platform for automated vehicles that integrates the benefits of cooperative and autonomous ...
Overcoming rough seas hurdle in offshore wind farm maintenance
How can work on offshore wind turbines be carried out in bad weather? Combining smart software with robotics maintenance can increase wind f...
Bitcoin alternatives could provide a green solution to energy-guzzling cryptocurrencies
The cryptocurrency bitcoin now uses up more electricity a year than the whole of Argentina, according to recent estimates from the Universit...
Study: Oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected both consumer and commercial transportation, but global oil demand will probably continue t...
Rare copy of 'Super Mario 64' video game sells at auction for $1.56 million
How's this for a high score: a rare copy of the Nintendo 64 video game "Super Mario 64" sold at auction for $1.56 million. f...
Self-supervised machine learning adds depth, breadth and speed to sky surveys
Sky surveys are invaluable for exploring the universe, allowing celestial objects to be catalogued and analyzed without the need for lengthy...
Amazon wants to monitor you in your sleep
Amazon.com Inc. has won U.S. permission to use radar to monitor consumers' sleep habits. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics ...
Robot with rapid motor adaptation able to traverse multiple types of terrain
A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley working with a team at Facebook AI has developed a new type of reactive locomoti...
Researchers design a system for detecting floods from space using artificial intelligence
Researchers at the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the P...
Giving a 'tandem' boost to solar-powered water splitting
Turning away from fossil fuels is necessary if we are to avert an environmental crisis due to global warming. Both industry and academia hav...
Storm brews over South African ship-based energy plan
A deal expected to be awarded to end South Africa's continuing energy crisis could contribute to higher emissions and provide a short-te...
Heat pumps on the rise after Minnesota passes new energy law
Air source heat pumps are on the rise in rural Minnesota and utility officials expect momentum to grow as a result of the state's new en...
New 3D printable phase-changing composites can regulate temperatures inside buildings
Changing climate patterns have left millions of people vulnerable to weather extremes. As temperature fluctuations become more commonplace a...
Hong Kong's urban farms sprout gardens in the sky
With their heads in the clouds and their hands in the soil, a group of office workers are busy harvesting the fruits of their labour on the ...
Machine learning models based on thermal data predict solar radiation
A research team at the University of Córdoba has developed and evaluated models for the prediction of solar radiation in nine locations in s...
An AI for sea ice identification
If you've watched Netflix, shopped online, or run your robot vacuum cleaner, you've interacted with artificial intelligence, AI. AI ...
A neural network to identify tiger mosquitoes
A study by researchers in the Scene understanding and artificial intelligence (SUNAI) research group, of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya...
Machine learning models based on thermal data predict solar radiation
A research team at the University of Córdoba has developed and evaluated models for the prediction of solar radiation in nine locations in s...
UN nuclear agency to help monitor Fukushima water release
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said it reached an agreement with Japan Thursday on helping monitor and review the release of treat...
A high-energy density and long-life initial-anode-free lithium battery
Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), an emerging type of rechargeable lithium-based batteries made of solid-state metal instead of lithium-ions, ...
Windows 11: Everything you must know about Microsoft's latest software
PC owners will experience some big changes to their Windows software later this year. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics News, E...
Energycane produces more biodiesel than soybean at a lower cost: study
Bioenergy from crops is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. New crops such as energycane can produce several times more fuel per acre...
Battery-powered trains could be a climate game changer. Is everyone all aboard?
Colossal freight locomotives are a fixture of the American landscape, but their 4,400-horsepower engines collectively burn 3.5 billion gallo...
Improving AI road sign recognition
Technology adds new safety features to every generation of road vehicle—seatbelts, airbags, parking sensors, and in work published in the In...
Better gripping with intelligent picking robots
Production, warehouse, shipping—where goods are produced, stored, sorted or packed, picking also takes place. This means that several indivi...
Scientists home in on recipe for entirely renewable energy
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin are homing in on a recipe that would enable the future production of entirely renewable, clean energy...
Efficient, low-consumption cooling systems work with solar air conditioning
This equipment would help tackle the increase of electricity bills during the summer. They are based on using thermo-solar panels to cool th...
Cutting through noise for better solar cells
As society moves towards a renewable energy future, it's crucial that solar panels convert light into electricity as efficiently as poss...
PHYSFRAME: a system to type check physical frames of reference for robotic systems
To move efficiently and safely within different environments, robotic systems typically monitor both their own movements and their surroundi...
Machine learning tool sorts the nuances of quantum data
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell and Harvard University researchers developed a machine learning tool to parse quantum matter and make c...
Building a better thermostat
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers designed and field-tested an algorithm that could help homeowners maintain comfortable temperature...
A new invention aims to make computer servers worldwide more climate friendly
An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer serve...
Rethinking Southeast Asia's energy plans
Big hydropower plants are an important source of clean and cheap electricity for many countries in Southeast Asia. However, dams harm the en...
Nintendo unveils new Switch game console
Nintendo on Tuesday announced its updated Switch hand-held game console would be available in October, after a pandemic year in which gaming...
Sodium solid electrolyte combining high conductivity with electrochemical stability
A research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology developed a c...
A public network name that 'permanently' disables Wi-Fi on iPhones
A security researcher named Carl Schou has found a serious bug on iOS devices. He posted on his Twitter feed that users connecting to a cert...
EventDrop: a method to augment asynchronous event data
Event sensors, such as DVS event cameras and NeuTouch tactile sensors, are sophisticated bio-inspired devices that mimic event-driven commun...
Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant back online after two weeks
Iran's only nuclear power plant has been brought back online, its manager said early Monday, after two weeks off-grid amid a power short...
Collective battery storage beneficial for decarbonized world
Batteries are potentially a game-changing technology as we decarbonize our economy, and their benefits are even greater when shared across c...
Study provides a unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells
In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop increasingly efficient and advanced solar technologies. One way of increasing the e...
Insect-sized robot navigates mazes with the agility of a cheetah
Many insects and spiders get their uncanny ability to scurry up walls and walk upside down on ceilings with the help of specialized sticky f...
Solar hydrogen for Antarctica: The advantages of thermally coupled approach
A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Ulm University, and Heidelberg University has now investigated how hydrogen can be produced at the...
Energy production at Mutriku remains constant even if the wave force increases
The EOLO research group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has confirmed the increase in the power flow of the waves in the Bay...
Four ways artificial intelligence is helping us learn about the universe
Astronomy is all about data. The universe is getting bigger and so too is the amount of information we have about it. But some of the bigges...
Countries investing in renewable energy enjoy greater economic growth and lower income inequality
Countries that invest more in renewable energy enjoy greater economic growth and lower levels of income inequality, a new study from academi...
Composing new energy systems
Modern, decentralized energy systems are a highly complex matter. Planning them in an optimal and cost-efficient way is a major challenge fo...
Washington state blackouts hit same customers repeatedly
The rolling blackouts that cut electricity for tens of thousands of Spokane, Washington, residents amid this week's record-breaking heat...
Using computation to improve words: Novel tool could improve serious illness conversations
Conversations between seriously ill people, their families and palliative care specialists lead to better quality-of-life. Understanding wha...
Team uses AI to predict 3D printing processes
Additive manufacturing has the potential to allow one to create parts or products on demand in manufacturing, automotive engineering, and ev...
Chatbot can explain apps and how they access hardware or data
Chatbots have already become a part of our everyday lives with their quick and intuitive way to complete tasks like scheduling and finding i...
Chatbot can explain apps and how they access hardware or data
Chatbots have already become a part of our everyday lives with their quick and intuitive way to complete tasks like scheduling and finding i...
Sustainably produced high-speed helicopters
Fast, lightweight and fuel efficient: RACER, the high-speed helicopter reaches flying speeds of up to 400 kilometers per hour. The component...
Web-based design tool for better job safety
The safety of people interacting with robots has top priority, especially when humans and robots are working side by side instead of being s...
An approach to achieve compliant robotic manipulation inspired by human adaptive control strategies
Over the past few decades, roboticists have created increasingly advanced and sophisticated robotics systems. While some of these systems ar...
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