As power grids add more renewable energy and large-scale battery storage, utilities face a growing challenge: how to stress-test tomorrow’s electricity systems before investing billions to build them. Wind, solar and battery-backed grids behave…
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Can tomorrow's grid handle extremes? New simulations test renewables far faster
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ABB Robotics partners with Nvidia to launch ‘hyper real’ version of RobotStudio
ABB Robotics is integrating Nvidia Omniverse libraries into ABB Robotics’ RobotStudio to help manufacturers deploy physical AI in real world robotics applications. Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics, said: “Today, using Nvidia accelerated…
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World’s first solid-state battery retains 97.7% charge after 10 days
Finnish startup Donut Lab has just released the third independent test of its solid-state “Donut Battery,” showing it retains 97.7 percent of its charged capacity after remaining idle for 10 days.
The technology firm released the new…
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Figure AI’s Helix 02 Humanoid Robot Demonstrates Autonomous Living Room Cleanup
Figure AI has demonstrated a new capability of its Helix 02 system by showing a humanoid robot autonomously tidying a living room. The demonstration follows the company’s earlier release of Helix 02, a single neural system designed to control a…
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How the Bank of England manages the world’s second-largest gold vault
Deep beneath the historic streets of London’s financial district lays a vast underground maze which plays a key role in the global economy. The Bank of England’s gold vaults constitute the second-largest gold repository in the world, after…
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Ice electrolyte can power battery: Researchers unlock lithium conduction in solid organic electrolytes
A research team affiliated with UNIST has demonstrated that liquid electrolytes, when frozen, can still facilitate lithium-ion conduction sufficient for battery operation—challenging the traditional view that electrolytes must be in liquid form…
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For precision tech, a hydrogen-tuned crystal could cancel thermal expansion
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that a hydrogen-absorbing material shrinks in one direction upon heating, so-called negative thermal expansion (NTE). They found that this NTE is driven by a phase transition in the…
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RTX’s hybrid-electric plane inches closer to fuel-efficient aviation
RTX has reached a key milestone in its hybrid-electric propulsion project, successfully running its system’s engine and batteries at full power for the first time.
The Virginia-based aerospace and defense conglomerate aims to deliver a 30…
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US team develops magnetic crystals that behave like graphene in 2D
Scientists in the US have linked two seemingly unrelated areas of physics after demonstrating that magnetic spin waves can mimic the behavior of electrons in graphene.
Researchers at the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of…
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World’s longest outdoor escalator system opens in China’s Wushan
The people of the Wushan County area in China have long faced a tough reality.
To go to work, visit family, or simply buy groceries, they had to spend an hour navigating punishing slopes and narrow, winding roads.
But now, the residents…
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