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WEB3 days ago · Understanding the impact of diarrheal disease in Dhaka. PLOS. 26 Sep, 2024. Temperature increases of 1.5 °C to 2 °C could increase hospitalizations by 4.5% to 7.4% in Dhaka. Tech Explorist provides news articles on science, and technology, including scientific research, discoveries, space, and inventions.
Leaf-like solar concentrators aim to enhance solar energy capture
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Leaf-like solar concentrators offer a promising solution for more scalable and effective solar energy systems. Maple-leaf-shaped luminescent solar concentrator (LSC). Credit: Nishimura et al. Since its inception in the 1970s, the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) has been at the forefront of revolutionizing solar energy capture by utilizing ...
Meet SAM: a Construction Robot That Works 500% Faster Than …
WEBApr 9, 2017 · A New York-based firm called Construction Robotics has recently developed a revolutionary construction robot that works six times faster than a human. The company named this robot as ‘SAM 100’. SAM is an abbreviation for Semi-Automated Mason. The robot is capable of laying 3,000 bricks per day. This brick-laying robot can lay 3000 bricks ...
Engineers develop AI technology to understand catalytic reactions
WEBAug 6, 2024 · HDRL-FP, which stands for High-Throughput Deep Reinforcement Learning with First Principles, has been developed by An and his colleagues Tian Lan and Huan Wang from Salesforce AI Research in California. According to them, the technology holds significant potential. The researchers emphasized …
Plant communication: A new device can talk to plants - Tech …
WEBApr 4, 2021 · Scientists from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have overcome this problem by drawing inspiration from the electrocardiogram (ECG).ECG is commonly used to determine heart abnormalities by measuring the electrical activity generated by the organ. Scientists developed a plant communication device with a 3 mm diameter that delivers electrical signals to and from ...
New small, compact coil generated world's strongest continuous …
WEBJun 14, 2019 · This miniature electromagnet created by MagLab engineer Seungyong Hahn and his team generated a world-record 45.5-tesla magnetic field, which is more than 20 times the strength of a hospital MRI magnet. A typical hospital MRI magnet is about 2 or 3 teslas. MagLab already houses the world’s strongest continuous magnet, 45 …
Researchers achieve super-Bloch oscillations up to strong-driving …
WEBAug 6, 2024 · Advanced Photonics reported that the researchers combined a DC-driving and a nearly detuned AC-driving electric field in the synthetic temporal lattice, successfully achieving SBOs up to the strong-driving regime. They observed the SBO collapse effect for the first time and expanded SBOs into arbitrary-wave driving situations.
Researchers developing liquid battery for renewable energy storage
WEBJun 15, 2024 · Currently, the state heavily relies on natural gas to balance the intermittent nature of renewable power. A team from Stanford University is dedicated to enhancing renewable energy storage options through their research on a promising technology – liquid hydrogen storage. “The electric grid uses energy at the same rate that you generate it ...
New approach enables long-cycle-life all-solid-state lithium batteries
WEBJul 31, 2024 · The LTG 0.25 PSSe 0.2 material displays remarkable performance indicators, including a specific capacity of 250 mAh g –1 and a minimal volume change of merely 1.2%. An integrated cathode composed entirely of LTG 0.25 PSSe 0.2 allows room-temperature ASLBs to achieve over 20,000 cycles of stable operation and a …
Arctic sea ice is melting faster than ever - Tech Explorist
WEBAug 16, 2020 · The decline in sea ice can lead to accelerated global warming and climate changes.. “The faster loss of sea-ice for the whole Arctic Ocean during September demonstrates that there are substantial variations in surface air temperature, and there is a correspondence between the fluctuations in surface air temperature in the Arctic and global regions,” added Dr. Avinash Kumar.