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Tech Xplore / Customized EV charging targets could lower EU energy costs by 2050, model finds
Researchers from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) have developed a European energy system model that pits two technologies against each other—future unidirectional smart charging (V1G) and vehicle-to-grid ...
Tech Xplore / AI that learns from the clouds: Researchers' system forecasts solar power output
Solar energy is becoming one of the world's most important sources of electricity. In Lithuania, the number of solar power plants is also growing rapidly, and the energy they produce is playing an ever more significant role ...
Tech Xplore / Optical communications outpace radio links across Mars-range distances, report finds
Maintaining reliable communication during space missions is critical. Future missions—especially crewed missions to Mars—are expected to generate far more data than current systems can handle. NASA's existing radiofrequency ...
Tech Xplore / AI can observe child behavior, but reading the signs takes a human expert
Early parent–child interactions lay the groundwork for communication, social and cognitive development. Yet many of the behaviors that signal how a child is developing are subtle, fleeting and difficult for untrained eyes ...
Tech Xplore / A method to create fault-tolerant analog in-memory computing systems
Conventional computers process and store information using separate components, known as a processor and memory unit. Because transferring data from one component to the other can be energy-consuming, many electronics engineers ...
Tech Xplore / Battery-like device pulls CO₂ from air using electricity and saltwater chemistry
Engineers have developed a new way to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere using a process similar to charging and discharging a battery—an advance that could help address the planet's excess CO2 problem.
Tech Xplore / Porous material could pull 1.8 liters of drinking water daily from dry air
Researchers in chemistry and materials science at Kiel University are working with partners to develop new water sources for the Mediterranean region. "Regions like these are facing rising temperatures and declining rainfall. ...
Tech Xplore / Paintable electrodes could power creative and colorful wearable sensors
Engineers at Penn State are blending art and science to create cute, paint-on tattoos that could help spot heart attacks early, power robotic prosthetics and read brain waves—all within a colorful, customizable system that ...
Tech Xplore / Metals' atomic arrangement can create 'corrosion highways' in nuclear reactors
Nuclear reactors are traditionally powered with dense fuel rods that can produce about 1 gigawatt of carbon-free electricity, enough to power about 100,000,000 lightbulbs. Newer power plant designs using molten salt for cooling ...
Tech Xplore / Self-driving cars: Near-miss driving data can expedite AV algorithm training
The safety performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) algorithms is boosted by 90% using simulation data that better incorporates near-miss incidents with outright failures, according to new research led by University of Michigan ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers propose light-driven random number generator for image security
While security systems based on pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) have been developed to secure information use, they produce sequences that are not truly random and suffer from inherent vulnerabilities and security ...
Tech Xplore / Tiny chip that controls mid-infrared light could improve detection of gases and heat
Infrared cameras can be used to spot useful information that our eyes can't see, such as gases escaping from a pipeline, chemicals in the atmosphere or heat leaking from a building. But sensing infrared light in sophisticated ...
