In a serious move that could disrupt global oil trade, US intelligence has assessed that Iran may be preparing to block the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints, by deploying naval mines.
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Category: Engineering
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Rare flying squirrel species inspires robotics
Scaly-tailed squirrels use thorny tail scales for grip on smooth trees. New models reveal the physics behind this, inspiring designs for agile, efficient robots and drones.
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Tiny brain zaps could boost math skills in struggling minds: Study
A new study shows subtle brain stimulation can boost college students’ math abilities.
Researchers at the University of Surrey call it a safe, painless, and non-invasive brain stimulation method that can boost anyone’s math…
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US, India, Japan, Australia unite to cut China’s mineral dominance
The United States, India, Japan, and Australia have announced a new effort to ensure a stable and diverse supply of critical minerals. These resources are essential for modern technologies such as electric vehicles, batteries, and…
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Self-driving lab: AI and automated biology combine to improve enzymes
By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers have dramatically improved performance of two important industrial enzymes and created a user-friendly, fast process to improve many more.
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SkillsUSA Sells Gen Z on Work in Tech‑Driven Building Trades
As the construction industry wrestles with an aging workforce and chronic labor shortages, Gen Z’s growing presence—and its comfort with technology—was on full display at the 61st annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference…
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A clustering-based co-allocation of battery swapping stations and wind-photovoltaic plants in radial distribution systems
Load flow
The net active load at the bus interfaced with the battery swapping station and wind-photovoltaic systems (\({P}_{{S}_{i}}\)) within a \({C}_{bus}\)-bus distribution network is computed by incorporating the stochastic generation from the…
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An improved bistable stochastic resonance method and its application in early bearing fault diagnosis
PUBSR model parameter optimization
Section 2 demonstrates that the performance of the PUBSR algorithm depends on its key parameters, a and b. To optimize these system parameters, this study integrates the cuckoo search (CS) algorithm with the…
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Research on fault diagnosis method for variable condition planetary gearbox based on SKN attention mechanism and deep transfer learning
Experimental parameter data
To verify the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed SKN-based deep transfer model, experiments were conducted using the DDS planetary gearbox fault diagnosis experimental platform. The setup is shown in Fig. 4….
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Prediction and reliability analysis of rigid pipeline response in soft soil using improved particle swarm neural network
Calculation models and parameters
An actual engineering project is used for the calculation example. The project is located in the Wenzhou Technology Development Zone, Zhejiang Province. The soil layer consists of dredger-filled soft soil, which…
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