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Database Maps Photovoltaic Installations in the Contiguous U.S.
The database includes location, size and type information for 1.47 million solar power systems.
Researchers Discover High Levels of Carcinogenic Chemical in Everyday Products
Everyday products, such as drinking glasses, beer bottles, certain paints and second-hand toys, contain high levels of the cancer-causing chemical cadmium, according to a report from the University of Plymouth.
Tea Maker Attracting Criticism for Faulty Biodegradable Tea Bags
The makers of Yorkshire Teas had set out to make all of their tea bags biodegradable before the end of 2019 with a version that doesn’t include plastic.
Engineers Present Root Cause of Transit Center Cracks
Engineers said that cracks formed at what they said were elevated temperatures, possibly during welding.
Report: Planning for Power Reliability Under Accelerated Generation Retirements
Accelerated generation retirements could have implications for North American resource adequacy, transmission adequacy and grid reliability.
Video: Watch a 3D-Printed Robotic Hand Play Jingle Bells on the Piano
The mechanical design uses passive movement but was able to mimic different piano styles.
Watch: Motion Capture Through AI
An artificial intelligence project at Princeton takes the motion-capture concept a step further with a new tool that can be trained to track individual moving parts over millions of video frames with high accuracy.
Nvidia Making Fake Faces with Machine Learning
Using a new type of generative adversarial network (GAN) technique, a team from tech company Nvidia created images of people who do not actually exist.
Bioprinting Making Science Fiction a Reality
3D printing and other technological innovations have revolutionized design and manufacturing. Now bioprinters and other technologies are poised to significantly impact and “digitize” medicine.
Browse a Megalibrary to Quickly Discover New Materials
A megalibrary tool developed with the aid of polymer pen lithography offers the potential to rapidly test millions of nanoparticles and optimize material selection.
Report: Pumped Storage as the World's Water Battery
Pumped hydropower storage capacity is projected to increase by almost 50% to 239,000 MW by 2030.
NASA Studies the Possible Cosmic Origins of Life
NASA researchers have created the 2-deoxyribose sugar component of DNA in a vacuum chamber that simulates interstellar space.
The Diverse Performance of Thin-Film Optical Coatings
A number of factors influence how an optical coating distributes light.
Watch: Robots Swarm into Organic Formations
By introducing biological principles of self-organization to swarm robotics, researchers have found it possible to get hundreds of coin-size robots to work together based only on local communication and movement – and without an underlying master plan.
Scientist Creates Powder Capable of Capturing CO2
In an effort to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from factories — thought to be at least partly responsible for climate change along with other greenhouse gas emissions — scientists from the University of Waterloo have developed a powder that can seize CO2 in power plants and factories.
Robots in Development to Offer a Hand in the Kitchen
Amid concerns over a robot revolution where some speculate that robots and AI will eventually take over tasks traditionally performed by humans, thereby making humans obsolete, comes word that robots are in development to take over at least some of the tasks in the kitchen.
Massive, Gravity-Based Battery Towers Could Solve Renewable Energy’s Storage Problem
Energy Vault’s towers raise and lower thousands of concrete blocks to store and generate electricity.
Implant Designed to Fight Battle of the Bulge
The device relies on vagus nerve stimulation to signal the feeling of fullness and suppress appetite.
Chinese Nuclear Reactor Is Set to Enter Service
Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on the EPR design to be built in China.
High-Performance Fans for Oil-Cooled Transformers
The airflow profile of an axial fan is ideal for dissipating waste heat to prevent damage associated with overheating and to ensure safe operation of high-power, oil-cooled transformers.