Germany will shut down three nuclear power plants on Friday even as Europe faces one of its worst ever energy crises, following Angela Merke...
US affirms new interpretation for high-level nuclear waste
The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste's...
Q&A: Why Microsoft Word might stop printing, and how to fix it
Q: Several months ago, my copy of Microsoft Word 2010 ceased being able to print documents. I get the error message "There is insuffici...
Robots collect underwater litter
Removing litter from oceans and seas is a costly and time-consuming process. As part of a European cooperative project, a team at the Techni...
Convenience, comfort, cost and carbon: What's the best way to travel, save money and cut emissions?
As New Zealanders plan their summer holiday trips, it's worth considering different travel options and their respective cost, both to th...
Researchers develop self-healing perovskite solar cell
A team led by Prof. Hu Linhua at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently developed a ...
Simple, accurate, and efficient: Improving the way computers recognize hand gestures
In the 2002 science fiction blockbuster film "Minority Report," Tom Cruise's character John Anderton uses his hands, sheathed ...
Dual strategy with li-ion solvation and solid electrolyte interphase improves stability of lithium metal anode
Lithium metal is an ideal anode for high-energy-density rechargeable batteries due to its low electrochemical potential and high theoretical...
First power achieved on world's largest offshore windfarm
Officials with the Danish energy company Ørsted have announced that they have achieved first power on the Hornsea 2 project—a new windfarm o...
AI helps with drug discovery
Drug-target interaction is a prominent research area in drug discovery, which refers to the recognition of interactions between chemical com...
Engineering next generation solar powered batteries
Secondary batteries, such as lithium ion batteries, need to be recharged once the stored energy is used up. In a bid to decrease our depende...
Developing an ultra-scalable artificial synapse
A research team, led by Assistant Professor Desmond Loke from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), has developed a new ...
Belgium commits to phasing out existing nuclear power plants
The Belgian government tentatively committed itself Thursday to phasing out the country's existing nuclear power plants by 2025 while us...
The problem with machine translation: Beware the wisdom of the crowd
According to collective intelligence evangelist and journalist James Surowiecki, groups are much better at making predictions than the indiv...
A bicycle riser bar made from jute fibre reinforced polymer composite materials
To meet the demand for alternative low-cost, sustainable, light weight and strong materials for two wheelers, Dr. JS Binoj from Sree Vidyani...
Nickel oxide is a material that can 'learn' like animals and could help further AI research
A unique material, nickel oxide demonstrates the ability to learn things about its environment in a way that emulates the most basic learnin...
How to make up your mind about the pros and cons of nuclear power
French president Emmanuel Macron has recently announced that France will invest €1 billion into nuclear power, and build more reactors by 20...
Toshiba's transparent Cu2O tandem solar top cell achieves 8.4% efficiency
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has successfully raised the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of its transparent Cu2O solar cell...
Less than a quarter of firms report that introducing AI has led to a loss of jobs
Less than a quarter of firms introducing AI technology over the past five years believe it has led to a net loss of jobs, a new survey led b...
Disaster relief could benefit from neural net combining multiple remote data sources
In an example of the burgeoning field of 'data fusion', researchers have developed a neural net technique that bridges optical imagi...
Walking in a 360° video with foot vibrations for seated observers
Walking is a basic human activity that improves human physical and mental health. However, physical disabilities and the COVID-19 pandemic h...
Winter freeze power resources charted in time-lapse video
What happened to electrical power in Texas during last February's freeze? A new time-lapse video of electricity generation created by ex...
Moving toward the first flying humanoid robot
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have recently been exploring a fascinating idea, that of creating humanoid robots t...
Operator files for approval of Fukushima plant water release
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday it has applied for approval from safety authorities to construct an underse...
Model moves computers closer to understanding human conversation
An engineer from the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing has developed a machine learning model that can distinguish fun...
Blue-sky thinking: Net-zero aviation is more than a flight of fantasy
As international air travel rebounds after COVID-19 restrictions, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are expected to rise dramatically—a...
Our casual use of facial analysis tools can lead to more sinister applications
On Dec. 14, the governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Québec ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting—and t...
New tool to guide sustainable building design and construction
The green building materials market is expected to skyrocket in the next five years, catalyzed by an urgent need to build structures that ca...
Multifunctional construction elements lower buildings' energy needs
Engineers at EPFL have studied the use of construction slabs that serve both as structural building elements and floor heating systems. Made...
New techno-economic model optimizes waste-heat conversion technologies
Every year, 50% of the energy produced worldwide from coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and renewable energy sources is lost as heat. This un...
Perovskite solar cell with ultra-long stability
Perovskites are the great hope for further increasing the efficiency of solar modules in the future. Until now, their short service life has...
With artificial intelligence, common sense is uncommon
Common sense isn't common, especially when it comes to artificial intelligence. Computers struggle to make fine distinctions that people...
A new approach finds materials that can turn waste heat into electricity
The need to transition to clean energy is apparent, urgent and inescapable. We must limit Earth's rising temperature to within 1.5 C to ...
Artificial intelligence magnifies the utility of electron microscopes
With resolution 1,000 times greater than a light microscope, electron microscopes are exceptionally good at imaging materials and detailing ...
Nanodiamonds are key to efficient hydrogen purification
Nanodiamonds may be tiny, but they can help with one of the biggest problems facing humanity today: climate change. from Energy & Gree...
Tree trimming pays dividends for energy customers
Eversource Energy's tree trimming program led to 900 fewer tree-caused power outages per year, according to research done by UConn energ...
Newly developed composite may enable high effective energy storage
Sodium-ion batteries are an exciting alternative for post-lithium energy storage, while their anode materials of high performance are still ...
New model improves accuracy of machine learning in COVID-19 diagnosis while preserving privacy
Researchers in the UK and China have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can diagnose COVID-19 as well as a panel of profes...
Digital microscale electrochemical energy storage devices
With the development of the internet of things and information technology, it can be foreseen that we will enter a digital, intelligent and ...
New technique advances the way researchers measure and analyze battery materials
A popular adage in data analysis is that you can only control what you can measure. For researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laborat...
Scientists develop biodegradable printed paper batteries
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed paper-thin biodegradable zinc batteries that coul...
Excellent carrier transport property of hybrid perovskites under high pressures
In perovskite optoelectronic devices, the carrier mobility (or diffusivity) and diffusion length are fundamental properties that determine p...
Mn-rich phosphate cathodes with better electrochemical performance for Na-ion batteries
A research group led by Prof. Zhao Junmei from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a nov...
Scientists create stable materials for more efficient solar cells
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a new process for producing stable perovskite materials to create more effic...
New modeling tool describes fairer electricity trade
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have proposed a new model for the interaction of nations trading electricity and their network lin...
Researchers publish first comprehensive building stock characterization study for the US
A new report and online dashboard by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the firs...
NYC weighs cutting off natural gas hookups for new buildings
New York City lawmakers are poised to decide Wednesday whether to prohibit most new buildings from using natural gas, a move that would make...
A virtual reality simulator to train surgeons for skull-base procedures
People with diseases or conditions that affect the base of the skull, such as otologic abnormalities, cancerous tumors and birth defects, mi...
Neural network can distinguish the characteristic brush strokes of individual painters
A team of scientists and art historians at Case Western Reserve University say they have used tools of artificial intelligence (AI) to disti...
Who's got your mail? Google and Microsoft, mostly
Who really sends, receives and, most importantly perhaps, stores your business' email? Most likely Google and Microsoft, unless you live...
US electric vehicle charging network strategy being released
The Biden administration is set to release a federal strategy Monday to implement an ambitious plan to build 500,000 charging stations for e...
Novel electrocatalyst for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells
Highly active and durable low-Pt (platinum) electrocatalysts that can dramatically reduce costly Pt usage in the oxygen reduction reaction (...
Significant energy savings when electric distribution vehicles take their best route
Range anxiety with electric commercial vehicles is real, since running out of battery can have serious consequences. Researchers at Chalmers...
Sulphur chemical technology improves battery lifespans
The number of times batteries may be recharged could double in the near future thanks to scientific advances in sulfur battery technology be...
Assessing hydrogen viability for large-scale production and delivery
The use of hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels has the potential to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contribute to more susta...
Why wearable fitness trackers aren't as useless as some make them out to be
Wearable fitness trackers will be on many Christmas shopping lists this year, with a vast range of devices (and an ever-increasing number of...
This season, give the gift of tech literacy—not addiction—along with that device
What do wireless speakers, streaming music subscriptions, smartphones and customized game controllers have in common? They are some of the b...
Wildlife concerns blunt Germany's green power efforts
Germany is expanding its power grid to aid the transition to renewable energies, but local residents in some areas are holding up the proces...
Machine learning speeds up vehicle routing
Waiting for a holiday package to be delivered? There's a tricky math problem that needs to be solved before the delivery truck pulls up ...
Neural network analyzes gravitational waves in real time
Black holes are one of the greatest mysteries of the universe—for example, a black hole with the mass of our sun has a radius of only 3 kilo...
AI models microprocessor performance in real-time
Computer engineers at Duke University have developed a new AI method for accurately predicting the power consumption of any type of computer...
The nature and roles of defects in hybrid halide perovskites
The expansion of solar energy is a necessity to sustainably meet the world's energy demands. To achieve this, researchers have focused o...
Solar curtailment is emerging as a new challenge to overcome as Australia dashes for rooftop solar
Almost a third of Australia's estimated ten million households now have solar on the roof. But as the nation moving fastest to produce e...
First real-world study shows the potential of gait authentication to enhance smartphone security
Real-world tests have shown that gait authentication could be a viable means of protecting smartphones and other mobile devices from cyber c...
Referrals are pivotal to solar adoption in underserved California communities
Solar leads and installations in disadvantaged communities do not come from phone calls or emails from solar companies but instead from refe...
New research enables a key step toward personalized medicine: Modeling biological systems
A new study by the Oregon State University College of Engineering shows that machine learning techniques can offer powerful new tools for ad...
India's clean power target will double electricity supply economically if low-cost storage is deployed
Dramatic cost reductions over the last decade in battery storage and wind and solar energy position India to leapfrog to a more sustainable ...
Camden Yards to test using artificial intelligence for security at Orioles games next season
If you're heading out to a ball game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards next spring, you'll likely become a test subject for a new a sec...
Machine learning method could speed the search for new battery materials
To discover materials for better batteries, researchers must wade through a vast field of candidates. New research demonstrates a machine le...
Prospects for more efficient solar energy conversion
Energy is an essential commodity of our existence, as such, having a sustainable, renewable and affordable energy source is vital. Of all th...
European activists fight for right to repair electronics
At a table scattered with tools and wires, volunteer repairers sit across from the owners of an assortment of inoperable electronics. The vo...
Battery 'dream technology' is a step closer to reality with new discovery
A sodium-sulfur battery created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin solves one of the biggest hurdles that has held back the t...
Generating a realistic 3D world
While standing in a kitchen, you push some metal bowls across the counter into the sink with a clang, and drape a towel over the back of a c...
Sodium-based material yields stable alternative to lithium-ion batteries
University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as q...
Better research into Instagram, WhatsApp effects on young users needed, academics say
In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of influential academics says the company should allow for better research into how its soc...
SEIHAI: The hierarchical AI that won the NeurIPS-2020 MineRL competition
In recent years, computational tools based on reinforcement learning have achieved remarkable results in numerous tasks, including image cla...
Recently developed novel Li-conducting polymeric materials enabling superior lithium metal anodes
To address issues in commercializing Li metal anodes, researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a novel lithium-containing cr...
New 'Halo' game debuts as Xbox turns 20
Fans will this week get their hands on the latest "Halo" video game, as Microsoft marks 20 years of the franchise that turned its ...
AI could help doctors make the best use of ICU beds during the COVID-19 pandemic
New technology could help doctors make the most of limited resources during the COVID-19 pandemic by identifying patients who require intens...
Air quality models can improve the accuracy of forecasts of daily solar power production in the future
The expansion of renewable energies is placing increasing demands on the power grids. and in the process requires forecasts that are as prec...
Are microgrids a key to grid resiliency?
The aging energy grid is being pushed to the breaking point. Power outages from extreme weather alone cost anywhere from $2 billion to $77 b...
Novel method to fabricate lead halide perovskite solar cells with record efficiency
In a joint effort between Pavia University (Italy) and the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden at Technische Universität Dresden (Germa...
Scarborough gas project will cause a substantial rise in greenhouse gas emissions
The controversial Scarborough gas project off Western Australia will cause a substantial rise in greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the...
Combined heat and power as a platform for clean energy systems
The state of Georgia could dramatically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, while creating new jobs and a healthier public, if more of its ...
Scientists identify another reason why batteries can't charge in minutes
Haste makes waste, as the saying goes. Such a maxim may be especially true of batteries, thanks to a new study that seeks to identify the re...
Research shows how statistics can aid in the fight against misinformation
An American University math professor and his team have created a statistical model that can be used to detect misinformation in social post...
Environmental group, California ranch agree on plan to build 19,300 zero-emission homes
One of Southern California's longest running development battles ended this week after two decades when an environmental group agreed to...
New AI method makes self-driving vehicles better drivers
In traffic, humans are used to constantly anticipating what will happen next. This reasoning ability is something that today's self-driv...
Study reveals potential of blue hydrogen to play key role in energy transition
The application of modern carbon capture technologies that limit emissions associated with the production of blue hydrogen can play a crucia...
Combining different organisms to convert non-recyclable plastic waste
What to do with the non-biodegradable plastics used in food packaging and agriculture? Researchers are turning their attention to microorgan...
Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills
Afloating, robotic film designed at UC Riverside could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water. ...
Mathematical discoveries take intuition and creativity, and now a little help from AI
Research in mathematics is a deeply imaginative and intuitive process. This might come as a surprise for those who are still recovering from...
There's an enormous geothermal pool under the Latrobe Valley that can provide cheap, clean energy
About 650 meters beneath the Latrobe Valley, the heart of Victoria's coal country, lies a little-known, naturally hot 65℃ pool of water ...
Study shows how machine learning could improve COVID-19 predictive models
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, case rates have ebbed and flowed in ways that have been hard for epidemiological models to predict. A new ...
Hydrogen produced from offshore wind in China can help Japan reach its greenhouse gas emissions goals
Japan's Green Growth Strategy signals a commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—and hydrogen produced from renewable ene...
Renewables accelerating, but must go faster to meet net zero: IEA
Global growth in renewable electricity production is set to accelerate but needs to speed up even more to meet targets to reach net zero car...
A molecular platform for heterogeneous OER electrocatalysis based on double-atom catalysts
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a chemical reaction that enables the generation of oxygen gas. This reaction is crucial for producing...
Stable electricity grids through grid-forming converters
Large power stations with their large synchronous generators provide stability in the power grid, but are being successively powered down in...
MEMS microspeakers for the future of the mobile internet
The microspeakers for wireless in-ear headphones from Arioso Systems GmbH, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems ...
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