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Supersized Wind Turbines Generate Clean Energy—and Surprising Physics

“Twenty years ago, wind energy was mostly a niche industry that contributed less than 1% to the total electricity demand in the United States. Wind has since emerged as a serious contender in the race to develop clean, renewable energy …

Taking a Shine to Polymers: Fluorescent Molecule Betrays the Breakdown of Polymer Materials

“Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have come up with a simple method to evaluate the strength and performance of polymer materials. They present their innovation in the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and hope …

Toshiba Develops World’s First Aqueous Lithium-ion Battery with Nonflammable Electrolyte

“Toshiba Corporation has developed a prototype aqueous rechargeable lithium-ion battery that points the way to realization of the world’s first aqueous large-capacity stationary storage battery that can operate at -30°C. Countering climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions …

3D-printed glass enhances optical design flexibility

“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have used multi-material 3D printing to create tailored gradient refractive index glass optics that could make for better military specialized eyewear and virtual reality goggles. The new technique could achieve a variety of conventional …

3D printed silver implants help tackle infections

“An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Sussex are investigating the possibility of 3D printing patient-specific silver- based implants to reduce infection and antimicrobial resistance. Despite substantial advances in invasive surgery and aseptic …

A 2D Perspective: Stacking Materials to Realize a Low Power Consuming Future

“Scientists devise a 2D-material–based stacked structure with applications in reducing computing power consumption Scientists have designed a 2D material-based multi-stacked structure comprising tungsten disulfide (WS2) layer sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layers that displays long-range interaction between successive …

Arecibo Observatory Telescope to be Decommissioned After Second Cable Break

“The National Science Foundation expects it will be several weeks before disassembly of the telescope can begin. Following a review of engineering assessments, the U.S. National Science Foundation today announced it will begin planning the controlled decommissioning of the …

Beyond AI for Wafer Scale Compute: Setting Records in Computational Fluid Dynamics

“In collaborations with researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Cerebras showed that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 X. The problem was to solve …

Breakthrough in Screening and Discovering Cathode Materials for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

“Recently, a research team led by Li Jinjin from School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, SJTU published their latest research findings in Energy Storage Materials (IF=16.28), a top journal in energy study. They proposed a machine learning …

CircuitPython 6.0.0 released

“Download from circuitpython.org Downloads are available from circuitpython.org. The site makes it easy to select the correct file and language for your board. The downloads page is here. Downloads are no longer available from the GitHub release pages …