With financing for water infrastructure becoming more scarce due to federal funding cuts and Trump administration efforts to rescind not-yet-disbursed Inflation Reduction Act spending, some water-sector utilities are becoming more resourceful…
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MIT builds new superconducting chip to power future quantum computers
Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a superconducting diode (SD)–based rectifier that helps deliver direct current (DC) to superconducting classical and quantum…
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You hear the beep, but can’t find the car: The hidden flaw in electric vehicle safety
As electric cars become more common, vulnerable road users are encountering more and more warning signals from them. Now, new research from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, shows that one of the most common signal types is very…
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German nuclear plant removes 1,200-ton generators without disassembly
Four giant steam generators from a German nuclear plant has been successfully removed. Unterweser nuclear power plant’s steam generators, each measuring 65.6 feet (20 meters) in height and weighing about 300 tons, were lifted entirely out of…
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Novel film improves life of anode-free solid-state battery by 7 times
Researchers in South Korea have come up with a cost-effective two-dimensional material that extends the lifespan of next-generation anode-free all-solid-state batteries (AFASSBs) by seven times.
Led by Ki-Seok An, PhD, and Dong-Bum Seo, PhD,…
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‘Crazy’ method seeds human cells in mice, may help organ transplants
Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice.
This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human organs for transplantation, which holds…
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Hierarchically depicting vehicle trajectory with stability in complex environments | Science Robotics
A learning-enhanced hierarchical motion planner for nonholonomic vehicles achieves stable and robust performance.
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Preventing pressure ulcers by increasing pressure: An unorthodox alternating-pressure mattress | Science Robotics
A bed of actuators informed the design of a mattress that alternates a pattern of high pressures to prevent pressure ulcers.
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A compact neuromorphic system for ultra–energy-efficient, on-device robot localization | Science Robotics
Locational encoding with neuromorphic systems enables real-time and energy-efficient place recognition in robots.
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The US bomb Israel wants to drop on Iran’s nuclear site
The ongoing war between Iran and Israel has been raging, and there are reports that the terrifying bunker-buster bombs might be used to target Tehran’s deep-lying nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow.
Multiple hypersonic, cruise and…
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