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Tech Xplore / Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started
Car design is an iterative and proprietary process. Carmakers can spend several years on the design phase for a car, tweaking 3D forms in simulations before building out the most promising designs for physical testing. The ...
Tech Xplore / Monitoring system could help cities manage emissions without banning older vehicles
How can vehicle emissions be reduced without necessarily having to change cars? A new monitoring system, developed by Politecnico di Milano and described in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, offers a concrete ...
Tech Xplore / Towards a smoother ride: Researchers measure the vibrations that make city buses uncomfortable
Anyone who has ever ridden a city bus knows that it can be a bumpy ride. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has measured just how bumpy it is, potentially paving the way for more comfortable ...
Tech Xplore / Soft e-skin utilizes magnetic fields to independently sense three-axis forces
Electronic skins (e-skins) are flexible sensing materials designed to mimic the human skin's ability to pick up tactile information when touching objects and surfaces. Highly performing e-skins could be used to enhance the ...
Tech Xplore / Scientists produce world's first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years
Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully created the world's first carbon-14 diamond battery.
Tech Xplore / A single algorithm can help robots make good decisions in real time
In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of chess, shogi, and Go using machine learning and a special algorithm to determine the best moves to win a game within a defined grid. Now, a team of Caltech ...
Tech Xplore / Seawater desalination advance could benefit billions of people
A novel approach to make seawater evaporate faster than freshwater has been hailed as a significant breakthrough in desalination technology that will benefit billions of people worldwide.
Tech Xplore / Manta rays inspire the fastest swimming soft robot yet
A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot's movement in the water.
Tech Xplore / New tool makes micro:bit programming portable for young learners
A new coding tool will help make it easier for children to portably program a popular educational micro-computer on the fly. Researchers from Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications working in partnership ...
Tech Xplore / Simple fix can help generative AI create more realistic 3D shapes
Creating realistic 3D models for applications like virtual reality, filmmaking, and engineering design can be a cumbersome process requiring lots of manual trial and error.
Tech Xplore / Making solar cells more weatherproof: Researchers discover why humidity causes perovskite cells to fail
Dr. Tim Kelly calls it "the magic of science"—when what you think is going to happen doesn't, but what you learn in the process promises to inform advances in a new type of solar cell. Solar cells, which convert sunlight ...
Tech Xplore / How non-toxic and efficient solar cells can be produced
Large-scale production of organic solar cells with high efficiency and minimal environmental impact. This can now be made possible through a new design principle developed at Linköping University, Sweden. In the study, published ...