Even before Christmas Day attacks on power substations in five states in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast, similar incidents of attacks, ...
Intelligent programmable meta-imagers: A timely approach to task-specific, noise-adaptive sensing
Sensing systems are becoming prevalent in many areas of our lives, such as in ambient-assisted health care, autonomous vehicles, and touchle...
Virtual animals game requires you to go out for walks
Are you getting fat from playing way too many computer games? If so, we have good news for you. The game of BitPet requires you to move arou...
Rapamycin in the context of Pascal's wager: Collaborating with ChatGPT to write a research perspective piece
Large language models utilizing transformer neural networks and other deep learning architectures demonstrated unprecedented results in many...
Researchers zoom in on battery wear and tear
From the moment you first use it, a new lithium-ion battery is degrading. After a few hundred charge cycles, you'll notice—your phone, l...
New data on how hurricane-force winds affect electric transmission towers
Most people in the U.S. don't give a second thought to flipping a switch for light. The U.S. made big investments in the mid-20th-centur...
Zuckerberg testifies that Meta's lack of VR fitness app doesn't keep him up at night
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg says the fact his company doesn't have a virtual reality fitness app up does...
Philadelphians welcome first free public phone as a small way to resist big tech
A group of about 20 tech-savvy engineers and programmers gathered Saturday afternoon at a Philadelphia bookstore to celebrate the installati...
Words prove their worth as teaching tools for robots
Exploring a new way to teach robots, Princeton researchers have found that human-language descriptions of tools can accelerate the learning ...
Machine-learning framework finds characters' actions in movie scripts reflect gender stereotypes
Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning framework that uses scene descriptions in movie scripts to automatically recognize diffe...
Policy, climate, war make 2022 'pivot year' for clean energy
For renewable energy companies in India, it's a good time to be in business. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Sciences News,...
Wi-Fi could help identify when you're struggling to breathe
Wi-Fi routers continuously broadcast radio frequencies that your phones, tablets and computers pick up and use to get you online. As the inv...
Building better batteries for a better future by visualizing nanoscale flaws in current models
A team of scientists from the United States, Canada and Germany are tackling one of the largest challenges of our generation—reliable energy...
Twitter has been important for disability activism—that's being lost under Elon Musk
Before purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk said that a public platform for free speech is a "societal imperative for a functioning democracy....
How closely monitoring households' energy data can unleash their solar outputs and (possibly) make them more money
Almost one in three Australian households have solar panels on their roofs. Most are motivated by rising electricity prices and environmenta...
Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5% efficiency
The current world record of tandem solar cells consisting of a silicon bottom cell and a perovskite top cell has once again been broken at H...
People open up more to smart speakers that listen actively, find researchers
Adding random, short expressions of understanding in a conversation may turn smart speakers, such as Alexa and Siri, into robot therapists t...
Engineers help artificial intelligence to learn more safely in the real world
Penn State researchers are looking for a safer and more efficient way to use machine learning in the real world. Using a simulated high-rise...
Could a giant solar array in the Sahara resolve our energy needs?
Renewable energy is an essential factor in Europe's goal of becoming the first carbon-neutral continent. The climate crisis and the soar...
Study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics
When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by extreme events (think earthquakes, pandemics or "rogue waves" that could destr...
Germany cuts the ribbon on first LNG terminal
Germany on Saturday inaugurated its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, built in record time, as the country scrambles to adapt to l...
Illegal TV streaming sites cost European economies over 3 billion euros: Report
A new study by Bournemouth University estimates that TV companies in Europe lost €3.21 billion in 2021 because of people using illegal strea...
Twitter suspends accounts of Mastodon and journalists covering Elon Musk
Twitter Inc. suspended the accounts of several journalists who have been covering billionaire Elon Musk, who acquired the social network in ...
Research calls for better balance of taxes and levies on energy bills
The taxes and levies on energy prices have a major impact on energy use and the funds available to governments to promote reduced dependency...
Novel single-atom catalyst boosts zinc-air battery to record power density
The long-term transformation towards renewable energies is inconceivable without modern energy storage technologies. These include batteries...
Thinking of buying a battery to help power your home? Here's what you need to know
Batteries are undoubtedly part of our energy future. Should you put one in your home now to store solar output, manage your energy use and c...
An AI-based platform to enhance and personalize e-learning
Researchers at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid have recently created an innovative, AI-powered platform that could enhance remote learning, a...
Air purifiers: Indoor pollution kills but many devices are ineffective and some may even cause harm
Air pollution kills around 7 million people each year. Most of these deaths occur in developing countries, where solid fuel is often burned ...
CES 2023: Tech world to gather and show off gadgets
CES, the annual tech industry event formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is returning to Las Vegas this January with the hope th...
New AI technology to measure the noisiness of upstairs neighbors
Some people can't sleep well because of the noise from above: Noisy upstairs neighbors. In South Korea, these sleepless nights happen in...
Heavy-duty trucks drive clean hydrogen to the next level
Greenhouse gas emissions have been declining steadily in the EU in recent years, dropping by over a quarter between 1990 and 2019. However, ...
God of War, Wordle lead a bumpy year in video games
It's been a bumpy year for video games, in part thanks to the ongoing repercussions of the pandemic. Some major releases got delayed (20...
Machine learning technique improves analysis and prediction of lithium-ion battery life
A machine learning technique to improve analysis and prediction of lithium-ion battery life has been developed by researchers in Scotland. G...
Scientists create living smartwatch powered by slime mold
Devices such as cellphones, laptops and smartwatches are constant companions for most people, spending days and nights in their pocket, on t...
Bio-friendly, self-powered sensor technology that can accurately analyze exercise posture
A joint research team led by Professor Kim Hoe-joon of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering and Professor Hong Seon-ki of...
A memristor crossbar-based learning system for scalable and energy-efficient AI
Deep-learning models have proven to be highly valuable tools for making predictions and solving real-world tasks that involve the analysis o...
One in four homes is 'hard to decarbonize'—without help their inhabitants could get stuck in fuel poverty
Millions of people are facing soaring energy bills this winter. Yet according to our research, at least 20% of homes in the UK will continue...
TikTok's use of music poses a threat to artistic diversity—an expert explains why
It has been another bumper year for TikTok. The short-form video service has earned US$12 billion (£10.5 billion) in advertising revenue in ...
Could artificial intelligence help us build a technological world that is more ethical?
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by hum...
New synthesis method enhances the electrochemical performance of lithium sulfur batteries
The high energy and low cost features of lithium sulfur batteries (LSBs) have seen them become a promising energy storage technology for ene...
How to keep your home warm during very cold weather (on a budget)—and avoid dangerous heating 'hacks'
A cold snap of Arctic weather dubbed the "Troll from Trondheim" has hit the UK. The combination of an energy price crisis and very...
AI enables more effective humanitarian action by estimating population density
Researchers from EPFL and ETH Zurich, working together with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Bin Khalifa Unversity (Q...
Study finds need for better awareness around timing of electricity usage among customers
A new study published in Nature Energy found that electricity customers often lack awareness of their daily energy-use patterns at home, whi...
Sound vibrations turbo charge green hydrogen production
Engineers in Melbourne have used sound waves to boost production of green hydrogen by 14 times, through electrolysis to split water. from ...
A strategy to maximize photocurrent in organic photovoltaics by suppressing recombination loss
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs), solar technologies based on organic semiconductors, have shown great promise both for the scalable provision o...
How behind-the-scenes sound mixing makes movie magic
Modern movie sound mixing uses techniques like impulse responses to reproduce dialogue and other sounds. These methods are crucial to align ...
DeepMind's AlphaCode attains 'average' rating in programming competition
A team of researchers at DeepMind has tackled another difficult task—generating computer code to satisfy a natural language request. In thei...
Paper-thin solar cell can turn any surface into a power source
MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source. from Energy ...
Madrid, Paris, Lisbon push ahead with hydrogen pipeline
Spain, France and Portugal on Friday unveil details of their ambitious plan for an underwater pipeline to bring green hydrogen from the Iber...
Researchers harvest electricity from wood soaking in water
Water and wood may one day be all that's needed to provide electrical power for a household. At a time when energy is a critical issue f...
Could video streaming be as bad for the climate as driving a car? Calculating Internet's hidden carbon footprint
We are used to thinking that going digital means going green. While that is true for some activities—for example, making a video call to the...
Economical eco-friendly fabrication of high efficiency chalcopyrite solar cells
Clean, sustainable energy solutions are essential to meet the ever-increasing energy demands of the human population. High efficiency solar ...
Creating buildings with an ecological envelope
Nature in city environs has a positive effect on people's well-being. At the same time, biological diversity in urban areas continues to...
New battery technology has potential to significantly reduce energy storage costs
An international team of researchers are hoping that a new, low-cost battery which holds four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batte...
'Call of Duty' to be released on Nintendo Switch, Microsoft says
The hugely popular "Call of Duty" game franchise will become available on Nintendo's Switch console if the acquisition of its ...
Music streaming in South Africa: New survey reveals musicians get a raw deal
Musicians worldwide have been placing their tracks with global streaming platforms such as Spotify for many years. South African musicians, ...
Researchers propose new structures to harvest untapped source of freshwater
An almost limitless supply of fresh water exists in the form of water vapor above Earth's oceans, yet remains untapped, researchers said...
Energy crisis fuels renewables boom: IEA
The energy crisis is fuelling an acceleration of the rollout of renewable power, raising hopes for efforts to meet ambitious targets against...
Digital image enhancement using skin-color segmentation and smoothness
Removing noise, sharpening blurred areas, increasing resolution, and smoothing areas of similar tone are all useful in improving the quality...
Finding the right AI for you
AI is a powerful tool for studying the human genome. But its recent popularity has inundated the field with innovation. With so many options...
Chip lets scientists study biocement formation in real-time
Scientists from EPFL and the University of Lausanne have used a chip that was originally designed for environmental science to study the pro...
Zinc batteries offer greater safety, but many improvements needed to compete with lithium
Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading yet fire-prone lithium-ion cousins, but researchers have c...
Building energy-efficient computing platforms
The massive growth of data centers that consume enormous amounts of energy has contributed significantly to power shortages worldwide. With ...
Upscale hotels do not consider tourism platforms like Airbnb a threat, says study
The increase in tourism and the proliferation of holiday rental platforms offering apartments, houses and rooms have completely changed the ...
Programmable home insulation that could replace air conditioning systems
Energy is scarce—and like all scarce things, it comes at a price. That is why Germany needs to greatly reduce its energy consumption. There ...
An amorphous high-capacity iron fluorosulfate cathode
Chemists and engineers have been trying to create increasingly efficient, affordable and stable battery technologies to power a wide range o...
Gas-liquid, two-phase, flow-based triboelectric nanogenerator with ultrahigh output power
Chinese researchers have designed a gas-liquid two-phase flow-based triboelectric nanogenerator (GL-TENG) with ultrahigh output power, accor...
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