Engineering
Tweaking turbine angles squeezes more power out of wind farms
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new control algorithm for wind farms that alters how individual turbines are oriented into the...
Researchers use multicomponent alloys to make strong and ductile soft magnetic materials
Making soft magnetic materials more ductil and stronger through nanoparticles. Credit: Tianyi You, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH Soft magnetic materials...
Perovskite material with superlattice structure might surpass efficiency of a ‘perfect’ solar cell
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A perovskite solar cell developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego brings researchers...
What is a semiconductor? An electrical engineer explains how these critical electronic components are made
A silicon disc, or "wafer," yields dozens of semiconductor chips. Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Semiconductors are a critical part...
New programmable materials can sense their own movements
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain MIT researchers have developed a method for 3D printing materials with tunable mechanical properties, which can...
AI may come to the rescue of future firefighters
A view from NIST's Burn Observation Bubble (BOB) of a burning structure during an experiment, one minute before flashover. Credit:...
Prediction of human movement during disasters could allow for more effective emergency response
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic, bigger and more frequent wildfires, devastating floods, and powerful storms have become unfortunate...
How ‘living architecture’ could help the world avoid a soul-deadening digital future
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, China. Alexander considered this building a paragon of living structure, with its beautiful...
Recycling concrete via high-pressure compaction to improve sustainability of construction
Credit: University of Tokyo Centuries of buildings, bridges, and other constructions have used concrete because of its high strength and...
Coin-sized wearable biosensing platform for digital health
Credit: Analytical Chemistry (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05210 A team of researchers in the Faculty of Engineering of The University of Hong Kong...
Drones carrying parcels found to use much less energy per parcel than diesel trucks
GHG emissions per km from a drone package delivery with a 0.5-kg payload and 2-km one-way delivery distance (4-km round...
‘We’ve got the power’: Brayton cycle technology test delivers electricity to the grid
A diagram of Sandia National Laboratories' simple closed-loop Brayton cycle test loop. The working fluid being compressed, heated and expanded...
Understanding why zinc-based fuel systems fail
Reza Shahbazian-Yassar with microscope. Credit: Jim Young/UIC While scientists have hoped that rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide batteries could be developed into...
New adaptive artificial muscles made of a single-helical woolen yarn
An illustration of the team's hierarchical construction of free-standing woolen yarn artificial muscles for humidity-responsive smart textiles. Credit: Peng et...
New wind sensor uses smart materials to improve drone performance
Notional schematic of a low-drag, smart tether system. The inset shows the concept of an airfoil-shaped anemometer instrumented with a...
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