A Japanese court on Tuesday ordered a utility not to restart a nuclear power plant because of inadequate tsunami safeguards, backing the saf...
Nanoparticles that mimic plant pigment to deliver better solar panels
Researchers have taken inspiration from the world of plants to develop innovative and efficient nanoparticles that could be used to build th...
Electricity from the cold ocean depths could one day power island states
In the tropics, the deep sea is cold and the sea surface is very warm. That temperature difference can be harnessed and turned into electric...
Suddenly everyone wants 'super-hot' heat pumps
SINTEF has developed the world's "hottest" heat pump together with its industrial partners and colleagues at NTNU. It recently...
Crypto gaming is sold with promise of convenience and riches. In practice, it's deeply exploitative
Video games are increasingly incorporating blockchains, the decentralized databases that underpin cryptocurrencies, as well as NFTs and othe...
Study of NuScale Power data suggests small modular reactors likely to produce more waste than larger reactors
A pair of researchers from Stanford University working with a colleague at the University of British Columbia has found that small, modular ...
Best Buy's urgent response service expands to Amazon's Alexa devices
Best Buy Co. said Friday it's expanding its Lively Urgent Response service to Amazon's Alexa-enabled home devices, such as Echo spea...
Canadians aren't as polarized about energy policy as believed, new AI social media tool shows
A new AI-powered social media tool is showing that Canadians aren't as polarized about energy policy and transition as we might imagine....
Fastest carbon dioxide catcher heralds new age for direct air capture
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new carbon capture system that removes carbon dioxide directly from the atmo...
Safely harvesting rainwater for industry
As the pressures of climate change begin to bite particularly hard in the developing world and in regions on the margins of extreme environm...
Study explores the concept of artificial consciousness in the context of the film 'Being John Malkovich'
Recent technological advances, such as the development of increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms and robots, have sparked mu...
Taking the strain out of parking in busy cities with AI technology
Artificial intelligence that helps drivers find parking spaces in busy city centers is being developed at the University of Bath. from New...
Traffic jams just a maths problem, says Israeli AI firm
Israel's traffic congestion ranks near the worst among developed economies but an algorithm can help, says one of the country's IT f...
Indy 500 waves green flag on sustainability with lofty goals
Parked a few feet from the iconic pagoda at Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a reimagined E-Z-Go golf cart that's essentially filled with ...
AI analysis of social media data shows language related to depression didn't spike after initial pandemic wave
Researchers who analyzed language related to depression on social media during the pandemic say the data suggest people learned to cope as t...
Researchers claim variation of lithium nickel manganese cobalt battery could last 100 years
A team of researchers at Dalhousie University has found evidence that suggests a variation of a lithium nickel manganese cobalt battery (Li[...
A heteropoly acid negolyte that could enhance the performance of aqueous redox flow batteries at low temperatures
In recent years, engineers have been developing a wide range of new battery technologies and solutions. One of these are redox flow batterie...
When a machine invents things for humanity, who gets the patent?
The day is coming—some say has already arrived—when artificial intelligence starts to invent things that its human creators could not. But o...
Offshore wind farms could disturb marine mammal behavior
When an offshore wind farm pops up, there is a period of noisy but well-studied and in most cases regulated construction. Once the turbines ...
Book traces the different trajectories of virtual reality in the US and Japan
What is virtual reality? On a technical level, it is a headset-enabled system using images and sounds to make the user feel as if they are i...
Is diversity the key to collaboration? New AI research suggests so
As artificial intelligence gets better at performing tasks once solely in the hands of humans, like driving cars, many see teaming intellige...
Roboticists go off road to compile data that could train self-driving ATVs
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose gravel and mud to gather dat...
Scientists develop novel lithium-ion batteries with better performance, greater operational temperature range
The lithium-ion battery (LIB) uses lithium ions as the key component of its electrochemistry. Due to its high energy density, long life, no ...
Computer scientists suggest research integrity could be at risk due to AI generated imagery
A small team of researchers at Xiamen University has expressed alarm at the ease with which bad actors can now generate fake AI imagery for ...
New biobattery for hydrogen storage
The fight against climate change is making the search for carbon-neutral energy sources increasingly urgent. Green hydrogen, which is produc...
Physics-inspired graph neural networks to solve combinatorial optimization problems
Combinatorial optimization problems are complex problems with a discrete but large set of possible solutions. Some of the most renowned exam...
Demonstrating significant energy savings using neuromorphic hardware
For the first time TU Graz's Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Intel Labs demonstrated experimentally that a large neural ne...
Experts forecast the wind plant of the future to be taller and more economical
Anticipating key features of wind plants a decade or more ahead of their installation can inform today's investment, research, and energ...
New approach to making electrodes could make battery manufacture less space-demanding and more energy efficient
The idea behind batteries is to make the planet greener, but they all start their lives as energy-demanding environmental liabilities. Resea...
Sharing and pooling options can support public transportation and reduce car traffic
Being mobile individually, at any time, without owning a car represents an environmentally conscientious lifestyle. To facilitate this, publ...
Reducing water usage in concentrated solar power plants with radiative cooling and cold storage
To deal with the current climate and energy crisis, the world is moving towards a sustainable energy economy. Concentrated solar power (CSP)...
Driving down the costs of hydrogen fuel: Prototype achieves 99% yield 8 times faster than conventional batch reactors
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for extracting hydrogen gas from liquid carriers that is fas...
Hydrogen production method opens up clean energy possibilities
A new energy-efficient way to produce hydrogen gas from ethanol and water has the potential to make clean hydrogen fuel a more viable altern...
A novel AI algorithm for digital pathology analysis
Digital pathology is an emerging field which deals mainly with microscopy images that are derived from patient biopsies. Because of the high...
A new conducting polymer complex to create stable and fully printable organic solar cells
In recent years, engineers worldwide have been trying to develop more sustainable technologies to produce electrical energy. One of the most...
Machine learning radically reduces workload of cell counting for disease diagnosis
The use of machine learning to perform blood cell counts for diagnosis of disease instead of expensive and often less accurate cell analyzer...
Low-cost, battery-like device absorbs CO2 emissions while it charges
Researchers have developed a low-cost device that can selectively capture carbon dioxide gas while it charges. Then, when it discharges, the...
Neural network to help ecologists, foresters and power line operators size up trees from above
Skoltech researchers have trained a neural model to determine the height of trees on satellite imagery to monitor the natural environment, i...
Neuromorphic memory device simulates neurons and synapses
Researchers have reported a nano-sized neuromorphic memory device that emulates neurons and synapses simultaneously in a unit cell, another ...
A step towards cheaper solar power
Organic solar panels have the potential to rapidly improve our solar capacity. These can be printed like newspaper—and so can be flexible, l...
Grubhub customers learn there's no such thing as a free lunch after all
Grubhub's attempts to drum up buzz for its food-delivery service by offering "free" lunch in New York didn't exactly gener...
New research sheds light on how to make the most of crowdsourcing campaigns
In recent years, crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members of the public to help collect data, has been tremendously helpful to provi...
How a cognitive bias is blocking the rise of electric cars
What are the barriers to the adoption of electric cars? Although the main financial and technological obstacles have been removed, their mar...
Method to predict the fire risk of lithium-ion cells based on thermal management
A study on statistical and computational analysis for state-of-health and heat generation behavior of long-term cycled NCA/graphite cylindri...
Researchers create highest efficiency 1-sun solar cell
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) created a solar cell with a record 39.5% effi...
Teaching physics to AI allows it to discover new insights into material properties
Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated that incorporating known physics into machine learning algorithms can help the inscrutable ...
Energy-efficient AI hardware technology via a brain-inspired stashing system
Researchers have proposed a novel AI system inspired by the neuromodulation of the brain, referred to as a "stashing system," that...
A new way to train deepfake detection algorithms improves their success
Deepfakes are images and videos which combine mixed source material to produce a synthetic result. Their use ranges from trivial to maliciou...
Researchers design 'socially aware' robots that can anticipate and safely avoid people on the move
A team of researchers led by University of Toronto Professor Tim Barfoot is using a new strategy that allows robots to avoid colliding with ...
Now construction projects can heat themselves
A new product based on concrete slab elements with built-in, liquid-filled heating pipes makes construction projects able to heat themselves...
Environmentalists oppose more life for California nuke plant
Dozens of environmental and anti-nuclear organizations expressed opposition Tuesday to any attempt to extend the life of California's la...
Terra's stablecoin flop raises questions about regulatory role
The spectacular plunge and trading halts of the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD are touching off a debate among lawmakers over whether, and ...
Artificial intelligence job hiring outperforms human hiring, but humans don't want to use it
Artificial intelligence (AI) job hiring is equal to or better than human hiring, but people react negatively towards it, according to a new ...
Energy storage is important to creating affordable, reliable, deeply decarbonized electricity systems
In deeply decarbonized energy systems utilizing high penetrations of variable renewable energy (VRE), energy storage is needed to keep the l...
Helping EVs keep their cool during the battery weight balancing act
Packing enough energy into a battery to power a car is putting a lot of pressure on the storage devices that, for the last century or so, ha...
Next-generation micro-expression database with depth information and high ecological validity
Chinese researchers have established CAS(ME)3, a large-scale, spontaneous micro-expression database with depth information and high ecologic...
A guide for developing mathematical models of large-scale complex dynamic networks
Karthik Raghavan Ramaswamy defended his Ph.D. with cum laude (honors) on developing novel data-driven modeling tools and techniques to impro...
A weakly supervised machine learning model to extract features from microscopy images
Deep learning models have proved to be highly promising tools for analyzing large numbers of images. Over the past decade or so, they have t...
Dirty liberal pipe-dream: 3 myths about electric cars
Sceptics say that far from helping save the planet, electric cars are a liberal pipe-dream whose environmental benefits are exaggerated. f...
New Zealand to help pay for cleaner cars to reduce emissions
New Zealand's government said Monday it will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cl...
Towards more efficient, non-toxic, and flexible thin-film solar cells
Climate change, one of the major global concerns today, has made it clear that fossil fuels are detrimental to our environment and are not a...
How electric vehicles could fix the grid
Transportation is the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for about a third of all emissions....
U.S. civil rights enforcers warn employers against biased AI
The federal government said Thursday that artificial intelligence technology to screen new job candidates or monitor worker productivity can...
Artificial intelligence can offset human frailties, leading to better decisions
Modern life can be full of baffling encounters with artificial intelligence—think misunderstandings with customer service chatbots or algori...
How AI can transform traditional HR recruitment processes
There's no question that the demand for AI is growing exponentially. In recent years, there has been an unprecedented demand for AI solu...
Drones and machine learning reveal the scale of plastic pollution in river habitats
Plastic pollution is a major global issue but grasping the scale of the problem can be challenging. In a recent study published in Scientifi...
Deadly impact of urban streets that look like highways: More crashes on roads where drivers think they can drive fast
Serious auto crashes in urban areas are more likely on city streets that look to drivers like highways, new research suggests. from News o...
Algae-powered computing: Scientists create reliable and renewable biological photovoltaic cell
Researchers have used a widespread species of blue-green algae to power a microprocessor continuously for a year—and counting—using nothing ...
Emerging hydrogen storage technology could increase energy resilience
With the rise in renewable energy as well as increasing uncertainty associated with outages due to power surges and extreme weather events, ...
Recommendation algorithms that power Amazon, Netflix can improve satellite imagery, too
Algorithms that help consumers decide what to stream or buy online can do more than predict customers' habits: They can help satellites ...
This electric flying boat might transform traveling
A Norwegian company is now developing a small electric seaplane that can transform local passenger traffic on a large scale. The design of t...
Electricity prices are spiking 10 times higher than normal. Here are some educated guesses as to why
Electricity prices in the short-term ("spot") wholesale markets in Australia are surging again. from Energy & Green Tech New...
Is AI-generated art really creative? It depends on the presentation
Ai-Da sits behind a desk, paintbrush in hand. She looks up at the person posing for her, and then back down as she dabs another blob of pain...
Electric eels inspired the first battery and now point a way to future battery technologies
As the world's need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace curren...
Deadbots can speak for you after your death. Is that ethical?
Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rule...
The future of nuclear waste: What's the plan and can it be safe?
The U.K. is planning to significantly expand its nuclear capability, in an effort to decrease its reliance on carbon-based fossil fuels. The...
New tool shows homeowners and renters the true cost of disasters
In some areas of the Southeast, such as Florida, the housing market is booming, but with hurricanes and other natural disasters posing annua...
Microgrid demo to lend a helping hand in India's green energy transition
A group of energy specialists supported by the EU-funded IELECTRIX project has built a smart grid demonstrator in a district in New Delhi, I...
The use of deepfakes can sow doubt, creating confusion and distrust in viewers
In early March, a manipulated video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ciruclated. In it, a digitally generated Zelenskyy told t...
Using graph neural networks to measure the spatial homogeneity of road networks
Researchers at Purdue University and Peking University have recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding road networks in citi...
Analysis of 5,500 apartment developments reveals your new home may not be as energy efficient as you think
Apartment living is booming in Australia. Many people choose apartments for their good energy efficiency, which reduces the need for heating...
California prepares for energy shortfalls in hot, dry summer
California likely will have an energy shortfall equivalent to what it takes to power about 1.3 million homes when use is at its peak during ...
Anxious individuals identified by analyzing their walking gait
Can you identify if someone is anxious based on how they walk? That's what students at Clarkson University wanted to know. Now their res...
Wireless self-powered ammonia leakage monitor system developed for ammonia-energy ships
Due to its zero carbon, safe storage, and high energy density, liquid ammonia is a promising marine fuel in the shipping industry. from En...
How AI spots legendary cricket batting backlift using video only
Sir Donald Bradman used a batting technique that fans loved, but some critics slammed. A critical component was his lateral batting backlift...
Researchers now able to predict battery lifetimes with machine learning
Imagine a psychic telling your parents, on the day you were born, how long you would live. A similar experience is possible for battery chem...
Towards carbon neutralization: Enclosure radiative cooling for reducing air conditioning energy consumption
The international consensus is that reaching carbon emission peak and subsequent carbon neutrality are to be considered the main global chal...
Researchers now able to predict battery lifetimes with machine learning
Imagine a psychic telling your parents, on the day you were born, how long you would live. A similar experience is possible for battery chem...
Technology reduces heavy-duty diesel emissions to meet stringent CARB 2027 NOx requirements
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) demonstrated the effectiveness of its CAT-DEF technology during the WCX World Congress Experience in Det...
Europe's farmers stir up biogas to offset Russian energy
In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe's fight to free itself from Russian gas. from Energy & Green Tech Ne...
Powering the moon: Researchers design microgrid for future lunar base
Sandia National Laboratories is an organization well known for designing reliable and resilient microgrids for military bases and vital city...
Building a better, cheaper battery for power grids
Batteries do the heavy lifting to store excess solar energy on power grids for use after sundown, but to operate, they also rely on pricey e...
Wooden buildings are a sustainable alternative in the face of global steel shortages
The war in Ukraine and the resulting European sanctions on Russia have dramatically affected energy and commodity prices. The combination of...
Study suggests solar energy can be cleanly converted into storable hydrogen fuel
Research led by the University of Strathclyde suggests that solar energy can be accessed and converted into hydrogen—a clean and renewable f...
Framework to describe individual machine-learning model decisions
Modern machine-learning models, such as neural networks, are often referred to as "black boxes" because they are so complex that e...
Research team charges on with 'power suit' as a new battery for electric cars, spacecraft
University of Central Florida scientists are charging on with an experimental battery capable of reinventing how automobiles and spacecraft ...
Rapid adaptation of deep learning teaches drones to survive any weather
To be truly useful, drones—that is, autonomous flying vehicles—will need to learn to navigate real-world weather and wind conditions. from...
Outage outrage: Facebook outage may reveal depth of social media dependency
Users typically react to social media outages with angry tirades and barbed jokes. But researchers suggest that this lack of social media ac...
Machine-learning model can identify the action in a video clip and label it, without the help of humans
Humans observe the world through a combination of different modalities, like vision, hearing, and our understanding of language. Machines, o...
Portable fluorescent probe identifies bad cooking oil
How clean are the cooking oils we use in our homes? What about the cooking oils used at restaurants? Recently, a team of researchers has dev...
Language processing programs can assign many kinds of information to a single word, like the human brain
From search engines to voice assistants, computers are getting better at understanding what we mean. That's thanks to language-processin...
Taste of the future: Robot chef learns to 'taste' as it goes
A robot "chef" has been trained to taste food at different stages of the chewing process to assess whether it's sufficiently s...
Automatic audio logging system successfully used to map the sound of Norway birds
Cheap, reliable audio recorders developed at Imperial have been used to reliably identify birds by their songs in a large trial in Norwegian...
Beyond electric cars: How electrifying trucks, buses, tractors and scooters will help tackle climate change
When you think of an electric vehicle, chances are you'll picture a car. But there's a quiet revolution going on in transport. It tu...
Adding energy cost information to energy-efficiency class labels could affect refrigerator purchases
To guide consumers in their choice of electrical appliances and devices, over a decade ago the European Union introduced an energy efficienc...
Trained neural network pipeline simulates physical systems of rigid and deformable bodies and environmental conditions
From "Star Wars" to "Happy Feet," many beloved films contain scenes that were made possible by motion capture technology...
Advertising source may drive experience for some Siri users
Advertisements on a voice assistant like Alexa or Siri may be more effective if the assistant is viewed as the medium for the ad, not the so...
Matching business needs and solutions in the biogas and gasification sectors
The DiBiCoo project has launched the Biogas and Gasification Matchmaking Platform, a free online hub connecting countries that import and ex...
If you use Google's Chrome browser, you will want to make this software update
Google wants you to update your Chrome browser to deploy a new wave of software fixes to patch some security flaws. from Consumer Electron...
Vertical thinking broke the bottleneck in powering high-performance computers
Working with Intel, Google, and colleagues at Dartmouth College, Princeton researchers have completely redesigned the technology for powerin...
Using gaming tactics in apps raises new legal issues
When new innovations emerge, there's always a temptation to say that we need to rewrite the rulebook for them. Gamification has been no ...
A new approach to improve the power control of wind farms
To slow down climate change and prevent its adverse consequences, humans will need to transition to more sustainable energy sources. Enginee...
Can pee help feed the world?
"Go pee on the rhubarb!" from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Sciences News, Green Tech, Energy, Energy Science https://if...
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