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Low Rhine deepens Germany’s energy crisis
The prospect of severe, longer-term limits to traffic spells a new headache for the industries lined up on the banks...
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...
Marrying models with experiments to build more efficient solar cells
Hybrid perovskites are like molecular baklava with alternating metal-based inorganic layers and carbon-based organic layers. Interactions in the organic layer...
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...
Effective crew resource management vital to police air support, research shows
Dr Simon Bennett, pictured here at NPAS' base at Husband's Bosworth (Leicestershire, UK), accompanied police air crews for more than...
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...
Local renewable energy employment can fully replace US coal jobs nationwide
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that...
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:...
Can WhatsApp messages be secure and encrypted—but traceable at same time?
Cryptographer and computer scientist Mayank Varia, a Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences associate professor, says his work...
Researchers discover innovative approach to make novel lithium-ion battery materials
Characterization of the as-prepared NCNO. Credit: Pete Barnes et al, Nature Materials (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01242-0 Researchers at Boise State University...
Robot arms are replacing shelf stockers in Japan’s stores
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Telexistence Inc. and FamilyMart Co. are rolling out a fleet of AI-driven robots to restock shelves...
Finding order using chaos: Synchronization of spiking oscillators helps build physical reservoirs
a) Topology of the network and node circuit diagram, b) Waveforms of a single node operating in periodic (top-left) and...
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 complex is your life? Computer scientists found a way to measure it
Here are example cases for the three experimental tasks, each of which required a yes or no answer from our...
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