It is hard enough for humans to interpret the deeper meaning and context of social media and news articles. Asking computers to do it is a n...
Apples to apples: How similarity theory could boost fuel cell research
Globally, an ever-increasing number of research groups are focusing on technology related to the production of hydrogen, which is now widely...
Using artificial intelligence to advance energy technologies
Hongliang Xin, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and his collaborators have devised a new artifi...
Scientists develop lead-absorbing tape to boost viability of rising star in solar power industry
Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Gol...
An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Batteries made from an electrically conductive mixture the consistency of molasses could help solve a critical piece of the decarbonization ...
Using artificial intelligence to advance energy technologies
Hongliang Xin, an associate professor of chemical engineering in the College of Engineering, and his collaborators have devised a new artifi...
First in-flight, 100% sustainable fuels emissions study of passenger jet shows early promise
Initial findings from a world-first study of the impact of 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on both engines of a commercial jet h...
Recycled factory heat benefits industries and the environment
Industrial processes account for more than a fourth of Europe's primary energy consumption and produce a tremendous amount of heat. EU f...
Green transition will be less painful if we avoid repeating 1970s western policy errors in the oil market
Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced record profits for the first nine months of the year, and is forecasting even stronger results fo...
What's the secret to making sure AI doesn't steal your job? Work with it, not against it
Whether it's athletes on a sporting field or celebrities in the jungle, nothing holds our attention like the drama of vying for a single...
Scientists discover way to improve perovskite efficiency and stability
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and affiliated institutions across the country have bolstered the efficiency ...
Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships
When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top of your desk, there might be a laptop that is sitti...
'Transformational' approach to machine learning could accelerate search for new disease treatments
Researchers have developed a new approach to machine learning that 'learns how to learn' and out-performs current machine learning m...
New discovery opens the way for brain-like computers
Research has long strived to develop computers to work as energy efficiently as our brains. A study, led by researchers at the University of...
Research pushes auto industry closer to clean cars powered by direct ethanol fuel cells
Alternative-energy research at Oregon State University is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol f...
Connecticut's largest dairy farm taps into energy markets with a plentiful supply of cow manure
It's a common farm odor, but for Connecticut's largest dairy operator, cow manure is the smell of money. from Energy & Green T...
Machine-learning model could enable robots to understand interactions in the way humans do
When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top of your desk, there might be a laptop that is sitti...
A new model that automatically generates movie trailers
Trailers, short video clips that introduce new movies, are often crucial elements in the promotional strategies employed by film production ...
Timber or steel? Study helps builders reduce carbon footprint of truss structures
Buildings are a big contributor to global warming, not just in their ongoing operations but in the materials used in their construction. Tru...
Development of an artificial vision device capable of mimicking human optical illusions
Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed an ionic artificial vision device capable of increasing the edge c...
Researchers propose AI-based approach to contactless machine failure detection
The world's largest manufacturers lose 1 trillion dollars per year to machine failure. Many problems lie in the noisy factory environmen...
Artificial intelligence may not actually be the solution for stopping the spread of fake news
Disinformation has been used in warfare and military strategy over time. But it is undeniably being intensified by the use of smart technolo...
Community systems offer alternative paths for solar growth
Strolling his church's rooftop among 630 solar panels, Bishop Richard Howell Jr. acknowledged climate change isn't the most pressing...
Sizing up the challenges in extracting lithium from geothermal brine
If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out? What if it was...
Scientists showcase the potential of demand response in reducing carbon dioxide emissions
Electrical grids are almost always over-dimensioned to meet short surges in energy demand. Put simply, power stations need to have an excess...
Scientists showcase the potential of demand response in reducing carbon dioxide emissions
Electrical grids are almost always over-dimensioned to meet short surges in energy demand. Put simply, power stations need to have an excess...
A deep learning method to automatically enhance dog animations
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and University of Bath have recently developed a model based on deep neural networks that could help t...
Solar panels: we need to recycle parts of them to use again and avoid a mountain of waste
Billions of solar panels globally will soon come to the end of their lives, but when they get thrown away essential materials that are neede...
Researchers suggest battery-powered trains could very soon be economically viable
A small team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California has found that battery-powered train...
Accelerated renewables-based electrification paves the way for a post-fossil future
Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels i...
Directional management of interface defects achieved in perovskite solar cells
Organic-inorganic halide perovskite materials have excellent optical capture capacity and carrier conductivity. Perovskite solar cells, with...
Apple delays launch of driver's licenses on iPhones until next year
Apple is delaying the launch of a feature allowing iPhone owners to keep their driver's license or identification on their smartphone. ...
Opinion: Hydrogen for ground transportation and heating is a bad idea
Ambitions to make hydrogen a key energy carrier for a climate friendly future are misguided, says Anthony Patt. Wherever possible, including...
New algorithm efficiently diagnoses shale fracture results from fiber-optic data
Millions of barrels of oil are produced daily from U.S. shale reservoirs. Yet this quantity is small in comparison to the actual amount of o...
Improving plastic waste separation with magnetic fields
In 2018, 61.8 million metric tons of plastic waste was produced in the European Union with only 9.4 million metric ton recycled. This consti...
High-altitude wind power reaches new milestone
As part of the EU-funded REACH project, Dutch start-up Kitepower has successfully deployed its Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES) in the Car...
Do you use predictive text? Chances are it's not saving you time, and could even be slowing you down
Typing is one of the most common things we do on our mobile phones. A recent survey suggests that millenials spend 48 minutes each day texti...
The self-driving trolley problem: How will future AI systems make the most ethical choices for all of us?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already making decisions in the fields of business, health care and manufacturing. But AI algorithms general...
Lack of process makes challenging decisions made by algorithm difficult
In 2020, as a result of COVID-19 restrictions on students sitting exams in person, the United Kingdom's school exam regulator, Ofqual, u...
Defining what's ethical in artificial intelligence needs input from Africans
Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it's becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology ...
Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30%
Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure...
Researchers use AI to optimize several flow battery properties simultaneously
Scientists seek stable, high-energy batteries designed for the electric grid. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Sciences News, Gr...
Research finds US adults have context-specific views on biometric technology use
As the application of facial recognition and DNA technologies increases across industries and domains, questions arise concerning the public...
Creating deeper defense against cyber attacks
To address the growing threat of cyberattacks on industrial control systems, a KAUST team including Fouzi Harrou, Wu Wang and led by Ying Su...
Examining the dynamics of complex networks
A special issue of EPJST, edited by Dr. Jurgen Kurths, Senior Advisor at the Research Department for Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute f...
The limitations of AI-generated text
Artificial intelligence has reached a point where it can compose text that sounds so human that it dupes most people into thinking it was wr...
Development of an artificial intelligence model for detecting and analyzing objects in various images
In line with the recent trend in remarkable advancement and performance improvement in deep learning, which is a subfield of artificial inte...
Using machine learning and natural language processing to measure consumer reviews for product attribute insights
Researchers from Western University, SUNY Buffalo State College, University of Cincinnati, and City University of Hong Kong published a new ...
Deep learning reveals how proteins interact
Scientist are now combining recent advances in evolutionary analysis and deep learning to build three-dimensional models of how most protein...
New method gives rapid, objective insight into how cells are changed by disease
A new "image analysis pipeline" is giving scientists rapid new insight into how disease or injury have changed the body, down to t...
This AI tool lets you visualize how climate change could affect your home
A new tool with cutting-edge image recognition AI lets you visualize the future effects of climate change on any place in the world—includin...
Israel, Jordan agree US-brokered solar power for water deal
Jordan will provide solar power to Israel, which will in turn supply desalinated water to its desert neighbour, under a declaration of inten...
Trials begin of revolutionary women's smartwatch safety app
Trials begin this week in Bath of a revolutionary new smartwatch app that monitors a wearer's heart rate and body motion to sense distre...
At long last, Australia has a bioenergy roadmap, and its findings are startling
Using organic waste to make energy—think sewage, animal and crop residues, and leftover wood—has finally been put under the spotlight with l...
New concrete mold system uses the right amount of concrete and no more
Concrete is the world's most widely consumed material after water, and its production contributes to more than 7% of global CO2 emission...
With gas prices and power blackouts on the rise, is green technology the solution?
In recent months, energy shortages in China have disrupted manufacturing and resulted in rolling blackouts in parts of the country. Meanwhil...
How to make roads with recycled waste and pave the way to a circular economy
It cost A$49 million to add 12.5 kilometers of extra lanes to Western Australia's Kwinana Highway, south of Perth's CBD. That's ...
Algorithms can decide your marks, your work prospects and your financial security. How do you know they're fair?
Algorithms are becoming commonplace. They can determine employment prospects, financial security and more. The use of algorithms can be cont...
The reasons behind lithium-ion batteries' rapid cost decline
Lithium-ion batteries, those marvels of lightweight power that have made possible today's age of handheld electronics and electric vehic...
New microrobotic trajectory tracking method using broad learning system
The use of magnetic microrobots with miniature size and the ability of swimming in liquids with low Reynolds numbers is promising in targete...
First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway
Zero emissions and, soon, zero crew: the world's first fully electric autonomous cargo vessel was unveiled in Norway, a small but promis...
World weighs laws to rein in mighty algorithms
From the YouTube videos we're recommended to deciding who gets a job, algorithms wield an ever-growing influence over our lives—and poli...
Wearable tech confirms wear-and-tear of work commute
Information about worker commutes from smartphones and fitness trackers can predict individual job performance, according to a Dartmouth-led...
A thermosyphon heat transport device for novel solar cooking
Much of the developed world is focused on the conversion of natural resources, such as sunlight, wind, the turning of the tides, waves, and ...
Can we coordinate water sources to recover more water sustainably?
In many places, including Southern California, climate change has increased the threat of drought and the need for new and continuous water ...
NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools
Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. But Ne...
We must rapidly decarbonise road transport, but hydrogen's not the answer
Hydrogen has been touted as the fuel of the future, and the technology features prominently in the Morrison government's plan to reach n...
Researchers demonstrate drone autonomy technology at 2021 EnRicH hackathon
During the EnRicH 2021 European Robotics Hackathon, Southwest Research Institute's unmanned aircraft system (UAS) explored and mapped th...
Prize-winning technology for large-scale energy storage
Safe, cheap and sustainable technology for energy storage has been developed at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University....
Thermal energy storage could play major role in decarbonizing buildings
Could a tank of ice or hot water be a battery? Yes! If a battery is a device for storing energy, then storing hot or cold water to power a b...
Artificial intelligence favors white men under 40
"Insert the missing word: I closed the door to my ____." It's an exercise that many remember from their school days. Whereas s...
Longer lasting power cables make for greener wind power
Dynamic cable testing conducted as part of the EU-funded MARINET2 project has yielded promising results for extending the fatigue life of ca...
Is it sensible to use rainwater to flush the toilet?
As a world first, a new residential district in Aarhus is using secondary water from the local water utility for toilets and washing machine...
Why the West should develop a clean energy strategy to meet the needs of the Indo-Pacific region
The Indo-Pacific region, which includes 24 nations and stretches from Australia to Japan and from India to the U.S. west coast, is home to b...
We've smelted a billion tons of recyclable aluminum. Do we need to make more?
Aluminum is light and versatile, but massively energy-intensive to produce, requiring 10% of Australia's entire electricity output . Rec...
Can EV spare battery capacity support the grid?
The University of Queensland has launched a world-first international trial to see if the spare battery capacity in electric vehicles (EV) c...
'Serious threat' of fugitive emissions with hydrogen plan
Australia's plans to produce hydrogen using fossil fuels carries significant risks and could create an industry that leads to an increas...
Great opportunities for solar cells as building materials
Building integrated photovoltaics, BIPV, is a growing renewable energy source. This technology uses photovoltaic materials to replace conven...
Under pressure, Apple allows self-repairs to iPhones, Macs
Apple is letting some iPhone users fix their own phones, a sharp turnaround for a company that has long prohibited anyone but company-approv...
Amazon-sponsored artwork that 'learns' debuts at Smithsonian
The artificial intelligence at the heart of a new art exhibit, "me + you," does not judge you necessarily, but it does analyze and...
Electric vehicles dominate list of efficient cars in 2022 Fuel Economy Guide
As the holiday road trip season approaches and more workers are headed back to offices and daily commutes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has...
Partner predictions fare better than either AI or humans alone
Artificial intelligence (AI) can assess far more data far more quickly than any single human can do. With such immense pools of information,...
Helping Pacific Island communities build energy resilience
The inhabitants of the Pacific Islands are locked in an ongoing battle against rising sea levels and tropical cyclones which ravage their ho...
Powering up next-generation energy storage with beyond-lithium-ion battery systems
Researchers led by Jennifer L. Schaefer, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dam...
Give the dog a phone: device could ease pain for lonely mutts
Does your chihuahua crave a chinwag or the Yorkie want to yak, the greyhound needs to gossip and the corgi loves a chat? from Consumer Ele...
Caught on camera: Using AI to combat street crime
According to the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Malaysia 2020 Crime and Safety Report, common crimes in Malaysia include snatch t...
Operator: Impact from release of Fukushima water minimal
The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday that a data simulation of its planned release of treated ra...
COP26: Architectural firm envisions skyscrapers that capture CO2
Architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill gave a presentation last week at COP26 suggesting that skyscrapers of the future could rem...
Are our phones really designed to slow down over time? Experts look at the evidence
It's usually around this time of year you hear people complain about their phones slowing down. Apple and Google release new versions of...
Industry collaboration powers new generation of grid emergency control technology
Grid operators face big challenges and big opportunities when it comes to managing through emergency conditions that disrupt power service. ...
New method converts bio-polyols into carbon monoxide
Syngas is an important feedstock for modern chemical industries and can be directly used as fuel. Carbon monoxide (CO) is its main component...
Industry collaboration powers new generation of grid emergency control technology
Grid operators face big challenges and big opportunities when it comes to managing through emergency conditions that disrupt power service. ...
Bacteria as climate heroes
To establish a carbon-neutral circular economy in the future, technologies are needed that use carbon dioxide as a raw material. In the form...
Biden pushes electric vehicle chargers as energy costs spike
President Joe Biden is highlighting billions of dollars in his giant bipartisan infrastructure deal to pay for the installation of electric ...
Bill Gates venture picks Wyoming city for sodium nuke plant
A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power project near a coal...
Impeding the impedance: Research reveals how to design a better next-generation lithium-ion battery
The newest generation of lithium-ion batteries now under development promises a revolution in powering cell phones, electric vehicles, lapto...
Making solar energy even more sustainable with light-powered technology
Technology using a new generation of hybrid solar cells is one step closer to mass-production, thanks to Newcastle University-led research. ...
Big data privacy for machine learning just got 100 times cheaper
Rice University computer scientists have discovered an inexpensive way for tech companies to implement a rigorous form of personal data priv...
An ironclad future for solar arrays
Solar energy plays an important role in the fight against climate change as a substitute for fossil fuels. Dye-sensitized solar cells promis...
The age of exascale and the future of supercomputing
Argonne looks to exascale and beyond, sorting out the relationship between computing and experimental facilities, the need for speed and AI...
Sustainable electrochemical process could revolutionize lithium-ion battery recycling
Spent lithium-ion batteries contain valuable metals that are difficult to separate from each other for recycling purposes. Used batteries pr...
Social robots deserve our appreciation, bioethicist says
If you have sex with an android doll and then knock it around the room, are you being abusive? If you're in a foul mood and boot your ro...
A deep learning technique for global field reconstruction with sparse sensors
Developing methods to accurately reconstruct spatial fields using data collected by sparse sensors has been a long-standing challenge in bot...
Researchers train computers to predict the next designer drugs
UBC researchers have trained computers to predict the next designer drugs before they are even on the market, technology that could save liv...
UN experts to review plans for release of Fukushima water
A team from the U.N. nuclear agency arrived in Japan on Monday to assess preparations for the release into the ocean of treated radioactive ...
The ethics of digital technology in the food sector
Imagine a world in which smart packaging for supermarket-ready meals updates you in real-time to tell you about carbon footprints, gives liv...
Newly developed compound may enable sustainable, cost-effective, large-scale energy storage
To produce a cost-effective redox flow battery, researchers based at the South China University of Technology have synthesized a molecular c...
Researchers compare energy consumption during extraction and synthesis of one diamond carat
Researchers from HSE University, RAS, and Skoltech have compared actual specific energy consumption in the production of diamonds using trad...
A strategy to fabricate organic solar cells with efficiencies over 17% using non-harmful solvents
Over the past few years, engineers have created increasingly advanced technologies to produce and store energy more sustainably. Solar cells...
Simultaneous coating and drying accelerates production of electrodes
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed and successfully tested an innovative concept for simultaneous coating...
Benin project turns waste fabric into recycled 'gold'
Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects ...
Apple to soon launch Legacy Contacts to share your data after you die
An upcoming feature for iPhones and iPads will soon make it easier to share your data after death. from Consumer Electronics News - Electr...
A neural network-based optimization technique inspired by the principle of annealing
Optimization problems involve the identification of the best possible solution among several possibilities. These problems can be encountere...
AI algorithm provides better way to build nanoporous materials
Nanoporous materials might someday solve some of society's biggest challenges, from absorbing carbon dioxide or methane from air to stor...
The price of Spain's electricity increases twelve times more during natural gas shortages
Researchers at the UOC's Finance, Macroeconomics and Management (FM2) group, which is led by Jorge M. Uribe, together with Stephania Mos...
3D chemistry boosts perovskite efficiency to 23.9%
An international collaboration led by EPFL chemical engineers has overcome a problem in the manufacturing of perovskites that reduces their ...
In a circular economy, hard drives could have multiple lives in the future
U.S. data storage technologies, like hard-disk drives (HDDs), contain imported rare-Earth elements in their magnets. As the demand for data ...
We can't afford to just build greener; we must build less
As the built environment takes center stage at COP26, the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and of the industry's responsibility t...
Algorithms mimic the process of biological evolution to learn efficiently
Uncovering the mechanisms of learning via synaptic plasticity is a critical step towards understanding how our brains function and building ...
Green hydrogen from expanded wind power in China: Reducing costs of deep decarbonization
China is the world's largest producer of hydrogen—currently chiefly an industrial feedstock consumed by the chemical and refining indust...
Scientists create artificial neural networks that detect symmetry and patterns
A research team at Lehigh University, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, developed and effectively taught an artificial neural ...
Ford, Purdue partner on technology to speed up EV charging
Ford and Purdue University are partnering to develop a new charging station cable compatible with vehicle charging technology still being de...
New scalable method resolves materials joining in solid-state batteries
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a scalable, low-cost method to improve the joining...
Major cities could be close to self-sustaining through fully integrated solar
New modeling, on a scale ranging from individual structures through to neighborhoods and an entire city, has shown that buildings in the Cit...
Seven reasons global transport is so hard to decarbonise
Transport accounts for 21% of global carbon emissions. It is now the largest emitting sector in many developed countries. While Europe and N...
Original Apple computer built by Jobs and Wozniak sells for $400k
An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, sold for $400,000 at auction in the Un...
Israel start-up offers virtual 'Clean Coins' for garbage
As she walked her dog Luna near her northern Israel town, Elishya Ben Meir collected litter that had been reported through a new app which t...
Engineers are designing an autonomous robot that can open doors, find nearest electric outlet
One flaw in the notion that robots will take over the world is that the world is full of doors. from News on Artificial Intelligence and M...
Diablo Canyon nuclear plant could provide benefits for California, including desalinated water and clean hydrogen
The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California, the only one still operating in the state, is set to close in 2025. A team of researchers at ...
Smart window material blocks rays without blocking views
An international research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has invented a 'smart...
Air-conditioning and the adaptation cooling deficit in emerging economies
The rise of air-conditioning is on the brink of becoming a new emergency, adding unprecedented challenges to the already difficult task of d...
AI behind deepfakes may power materials design innovations
The person staring back from the computer screen may not actually exist, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) capable of generating convin...
Effect of density and green space on urban energy use dependent on location
In the battle to mitigate "city heat" and conserve the energy it takes to keep folks comfortable inside, recent research has shown...
Coffee ground waste may be a lucrative tool to reduce carbon emissions
University of Saskatchewan (USask) chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate Alivia Mukherjee from the College of Engineering is investigating ho...
Global energy targets don't deal with people's real problems in Zimbabwe
Thirty years ago, ending energy poverty wasn't among the world's development goals. Neither the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment ...
Rolls-Royce launches nuclear reactor business
UK aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce on Tuesday launched plans to build small low-cost nuclear reactors to help cut the nation's carbon ...
Data centers should be integrated into a green energy system
The growing need for energy for data centers jeopardizes the EU's climate goal of reducing CO2 emissions and being CO2-neutral by 2050. ...
Original Apple computer built by Jobs and Wozniak to be auctioned
An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, goes under the hammer in the United St...
New AI brings the power of natural language processing to African languages
Researchers have developed an AI model to help computers work more efficiently with a wider variety of languages. from News on Artificial ...
Can electric cars help strengthen electrical grids?
American homeowners with solar panels can sell the surplus electricity they generate back to their local grids. Should electric vehicle (EV)...
Study provides keys to managing influx of EV batteries
As electric vehicle production revs up across the globe, an inherent consequence will be the mutually growing number of retired lithium-ion ...
Dexterous robotic hands manipulate thousands of objects with ease
At just one year old, a baby is more dexterous than a robot. Sure, machines can do more than just pick up and put down objects, but we'r...
How figurative language confuses chatbots
Computer scientists recently examined the performance of dialog systems, such as personal assistants and chatbots designed to interact with ...
MERLIN: A self-supervised strategy to train deep despeckling networks
When a highly coherent light beam, such as that emitted by radars, is diffusely reflected on a surface with a rough structure (e.g., a piece...
Electric blues: How car investment could change our emissions trajectory
Subsidizing electric cars and rolling out more chargers could help Australia achieve half of our new car sales to be electric by 2030. fro...
Roasting coffee with the rays of the sun
Combining two of Italy's delights—coffee and sunshine—a couple of engineers in Rome have created an environmentally friendly way to roas...
Boxing body uses AI vetting of judges to restore trust
Seeking to restore trust in its bouts, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) used an artificial intelligence system to analyze judges ...
Wind and solar could power the world's major countries most of the time
With the eyes of the world on the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, strategies for decarbonizing energy infrastructu...
Photovoltaic solar heating system uses 95% of energy available to heat water
A research team at the University of Córdoba has designed a sustainable photovoltaic solar device that can heat water up to 80 degrees—just ...
COP26: How bricks could prove central in the drive to net zero
A Heriot-Watt University professor and co-founder of clean tech company Kenoteq, Professor Gabriela Medero, is calling for an overhaul of th...
Hydrophilic polymers: The key to a green future
Researchers from the University of Surrey and the University of Bristol are working on innovative devices to tame and store carbon-free rene...
Forests can't handle all the net-zero emissions plans. Companies and countries expect nature to offset too much carbon
Net-zero emissions pledges to protect the climate are coming fast and furious from companies, cities and countries. But declaring a net-zero...
Successful ground testing for all-electric race plane
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have tested an electrified racing airplane that could establish the viability of faster and more...
Researching how hydrogen could be generated, used and stored at Scott Base in Antarctica
A UC research project evaluating the feasibility of hydrogen production in Antarctica could help to reduce carbon emissions in the future by...
A new method using nanowires can make solar panels much more efficient and much cheaper
A research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has developed a method for making an ultra-high material effic...
A new way to reclaim cathode materials used in lithium batteries for use in new batteries
A combined team of researchers from the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) and battery maker A123 Systems has developed a new way to r...
5 ways artificial intelligence could shape our lives
Tech evangelists habitually brim with enthusiasm over artificial intelligence's potential to transform our lives, and the crowds at this...
Humans bigger threat than AI, says chess legend Kasparov
Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was beaten by a supercomputer—but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he is firmly convinced that ...
New energy systems could cause a sea change in energy efficiency during shipping
Using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel can help ships reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. But LNG ships are currently inefficient, wit...
Autonomous driving development saves millions in test kilometers
Driving simulator tests are popular—for understandable reasons: any scenario can be simulated at the touch of a button. They are independent...
Tesla's handling of braking bug in public self-driving test raises alarms
Tesla pushed out a new version of the experimental software suite it calls Full Self-Driving to approved drivers on Oct. 23 through an ...
Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages
Automated speech-recognition technology has become more common with the popularity of virtual assistants like Siri, but many of these system...
Collections of traffic images used to enhance the perception capabilities self-driving car
If self-driving cars are to safely navigate traffic, they need to "understand" the things around them. from News on Artificial I...
Passive solar could furnish a third of home heating needs
Skylights are an aesthetically pleasing design choice, but they're also an underappreciated source of sustainable heat energy for buildi...
Making voice assistants accessible for older patients
Voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri have tremendous potential to help people manage their health as they age. U...
More clean energy means more mines, but we shouldn't sacrifice communities in the name of climate action
As the world shifts to renewable energy and fossil fuel industries close down, what will happen to the local workforce, communities and busi...
Repurposing carbon dioxide may be key to net-zero emissions
While only a mere 4 percent of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide plays a vital role in sustaining life on our planet. However, if this delicate...
Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talks
Deep in a French forest of oaks, birches and pines, a steady stream of trucks carries a silent reminder of nuclear energy's often invisi...
Convolution neural network used to identify dog breeds from photographs
Researchers in India have demonstrated how a convolution neural network can be used to identify dog breeds from photographs. Writing in the ...
Bees, sheep, crops: Solar developers tout multiple benefits
Silflower was among native plants that blanketed the vast North American prairie until settlers developed farms and cities. Nowadays confine...
US government works to 'cocoon' old nuclear reactors
Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually expressed in the hundreds of billions of dollars and inv...
Study: Algorithm can predict when an adolescent will become suicidal with 91% accuracy
Researchers from Brigham Young University, Johns Hopkins and Harvard have created an algorithm that can predict suicidal thoughts and behavi...
Study finds public support for nuclear energy in Southeast Asia generally low
Nuclear energy may be the world's second-largest low carbon energy source for generating electricity after hydroelectric power, but rece...
Technical feasibility of sustainable fuels production demonstrated
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed the process technology that can produce carbon-neutral transportation fuels from sunlight and air. ...
A model that translates everyday human activities into skills for an embodied artificial agent
Over the past decade or so, many roboticists and computer scientists have been trying to develop robots that can complete tasks in spaces po...
Innovative software modules for effective excess thermal energy recovery
After nearly two years of data collection and software development, EU-funded project, EMB3Rs, is almost ready to reveal the best ways that ...
Using microbes to make carbon-neutral fuel
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make a readily usable biofuel. from Energ...
Hybrid cars' green credentials under scrutiny
Hybrid cars are increasingly popular in the European Union as eco-conscious drivers turn away from their more polluting petrol and diesel co...
Tidal stream power can aid drive for net-zero and generate 11% of UK's electricity demand
Tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of the UK's current annual electricity and play a significant role in the government...
Researchers point toward energy efficiency instead of long-term storage
Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation's buildings entirely with renewable...
Technology could help clothing retailers become more sustainable, expert says
After each season, clothing retailers offer deep discounts to lure in consumers to buy leftover, unsold products. But what if they could do ...
A new algorithm to help robots escape dead ends.
Researchers from the Institute of Engineering and Technology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University have developed an algorithm that will all...
How aircraft can get higher, be greener using doped fuels
The goal of creating a cleaner fuel for aircraft engines is creating a spark at UBC Okanagan. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy S...
Electric vehicles could be powered by hydrogen harvested from sewage
Wastewater treatment is vital to remove pathogens, but is incredibly energy intensive. The ability to treat it more sustainably is a challen...
A fast, automated way of evaluating battery data and making it available to AI processes
Electrochemical energy storage systems and fuel cell technologies hold two of the keys to making a successful transition to alternative sour...
Using ocean plastic waste to power ocean cleanup ships
A team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Harvard University believes that the pl...
New insights into the everyday operation of the nation's power grid
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee and University of Central Florida researchers released a new high-performance computi...
In Iceland, CO2 sucked from the air is turned to rock
At the foot of an Icelandic volcano, a newly-opened plant is sucking carbon dioxide from the air and turning it to rock, locking away the ma...
A framework to automatically identify wildlife in collaboration with humans
Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed numerous machine learning tools that can recognize specific objects or animals...
Investigating how robot systems can function better in dynamic environments
Currently, most robots are seen in industry where they support repetitive tasks, such as in the assembly lines of cars or in the production ...
A fast, automated way of evaluating battery data and making it available to AI processes
Electrochemical energy storage systems and fuel cell technologies hold two of the keys to making a successful transition to alternative sour...
Method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task
If your Uber driver takes a shortcut, you might get to your destination faster. But if a machine learning model takes a shortcut, it might f...
How Australia's coal country past is scuppering its renewable energy future
The crucial climate change summit in Glasgow has just begun, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is bringing his widely criticized ...
Sunny but isolated, Cyprus toils to boost green energy
"We have 340 sunny days per year," Georgia Mouskou said, as sunlight streamed through her windows. "But we're still not b...
Greening deserts: India powers renewable ambitions with solar push
As camels munch on the fringes of Thar desert, an oasis of blue solar panels stretches further than the eye can see at Bhadla Park—a corners...
Google, Indian billionaire launch budget smartphone
Online giant Google and Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani opened advance orders in India on Monday for an entry-level smartphone billed a...
Meta, the company that owns Facebook, is reportedly developing a smartwatch
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is reportedly working on its own smartwatch. from Consumer Electronics News - Electronics Ne...
Japan and Finland collaborate to develop 6G cellular standard
An international team of researchers from Japan and Finland will work to develop technologies and standards for the sixth generation of wire...
Key to resilient energy-efficient AI may reside in human brain
A clearer understanding of how a type of brain cell known as astrocytes function and can be emulated in the physics of hardware devices, may...
Boston Dynamics robots imitate Rolling Stones performing 'Start Me Up'
The team at robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a video promoting itself while also honoring the Rolling Stones—this year marks th...
A technique that allows legged robots to continuously learn from their environment
Legged robots have numerous advantageous qualities, including the ability to travel long distances and navigate a wide range of land-based e...
Taming the data deluge by enriching AI algorithms with new processors
An oncoming tsunami of data threatens to overwhelm huge data-rich research projects in such areas that range from the tiny neutrino to an ex...
New hydropower report identifies opportunities to reform the licensing process
In the early 1970s, water turned gold. As oil supplies plummeted, prices skyrocketed. Congress, desperate for anything not-oil, compelled el...
Electrifying transport: Why New Zealand can't rely on battery-powered cars alone
The transport sector accounts for 47% of New Zealand's carbon dioxide emissions. It will be a focus for decarbonisation to meet the coun...
New Zealand strait crossed for first time by electric plane
As he made history by becoming the first person to fly across New Zealand's Cook Strait in an electric plane, Gary Freedman thought it o...
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