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“Study shows that if autonomous vehicles are widely adopted, hardware efficiency will need to advance rapidly to keep computing-related emissions in check. In the future, the energy needed to run the powerful computers on board a global fleet of autonomous …
“A European consortium led by UNIGE, École Polytechnique (Paris), EPFL, hes-so and TRUMPF has managed to guide lightning using a high-power laser installed at the top of Mount Säntis in Switzerland. Forest fires, power cuts and damaged infrastructure…lightning fascinates …
“Operationally fast compact sonar that incorporates sparsity-aware image processing could be used in underwater sensing or navigation. Underwater imaging sonars are an essential technology for ocean exploration. Biomimetic sonars that are inspired from marine mammals such as dolphins are an …
“Method offers approach to shift laser colors for applications in science, industry, and medicine. Lasers are intense beams of colored light. Depending on their color and other properties, they can scan your groceries, cut through metal, eradicate tumors, and even …
“Super-thin chips made from lithium niobate are set to overtake silicon chips in light-based technologies, according to world-leading scientists in the field, with potential applications ranging from remote ripening-fruit detection on Earth to navigation on the Moon. They say the …
“Their technique could allow chip manufacturers to produce next-generation transistors based on materials other than silicon. True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted …
“A ‘space skin’ could help protect spacecraft and satellites from harsh solar radiation while also harvesting energy for future use in the craft’s mission, according to a study from the University of Surrey and Airbus Defence and Space. The …
“Rotational multimaterial printing of helical filaments for soft robotics and structural composites Materials in nature are rarely straight. In our bodies, proteins assemble into helical filaments which allow our muscles to contract. Plants change shape because cellulose fibers are arranged …
“Illuminating study from Rice, UT, Stanford advances ‘green’ reducing agents There are many ways to initiate chemical reactions in liquids, but placing free electrons directly into water, ammonia and other liquid solutions is especially attractive for green chemistry because solvated …
“NASA announced Wednesday it has issued an award to The Boeing Company for the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, which seeks to inform a potential new generation of green single-aisle airliners. Under a Funded Space Act Agreement, Boeing will …