Municipal wastewater treatment in Europe consumes the energy equivalent of around two power stations per year – but could actually be generating the energy of 12. The EU-funded POWERSTEP project demonstrates how to make ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 20, 2018
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Researchers at RMIT University have engineered a new type of transistor, the building block for all electronics. Instead of sending electrical currents through silicon, these transistors send electrons through narrow air ...
Nanophysics
Nov 19, 2018
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Imagine a taxi service that picked you up (into the sky) and then dropped you off after an exciting journey, completely free of road works and traffic lights. It has been claimed that air taxis could be flying us through ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 16, 2018
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Telecommunications is becoming ever more important for vehicles. At TU Wien, a new antenna concept has now been developed for cars.
Telecom
Nov 6, 2018
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What does AI look like? You might say it looks like a robot, or flashing LEDs, or a waveform on a screen. But what would AI say AI looks like? To find out, IBM Research asked AI to draw us a picture… of itself. AI's self-portrait ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 22, 2018
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An out-of-this-world mobile observatory, developed in collaboration with Nissan Design Europe in London, UK, was unveiled at the 2018 Hannover Motor Show this week, proving that the sky is never the limit.
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2018
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Something of a boom in the discovery of new species is taking place right now. It is so significant that some say it is similar to the period of the 18th and 19th centuries when European naturalists ventured into newly discovered ...
Ecology
Aug 15, 2018
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Optimizing economic welfare without constraints might put human well-being at risk, a new climate study argues. While being successful in bringing down costs of greenhouse gas reductions, the concept of profit maximization ...
Environment
Jun 18, 2018
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Scientists have discovered honeybees can understand the concept of zero, putting them in an elite club of clever animals that can grasp the abstract mathematical notion of nothing.
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2018
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"Looks don't matter, it's what you do that counts." This quote from Skipper, from "Penguins of Madagascar" is the general theme throughout the work of Annelies Cannaert, a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Toxicology at ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 28, 2018
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