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Making fresh water out of seawater usually requires huge amounts of energy. The most widespread process for desalination is called reverse osmosis, which works by flowing seawater over a membrane at high pressure to remove […]

A team of researchers at Yale University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, has developed a robot hand that employs a caging mechanism. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group […]

Keeping turbines running efficiently during a hot Australian summer’s day can be hard work. But a new technology is drawing on the cold night air to make it easier.This post was originally published on this […]

Recently, a research group from the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) made new progress in intelligent fault diagnosis methods for complex systems of nuclear power plants […]

Recently, a research group led by Prof. Cheng Lin from School of Microelectronics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made achievements in the field of fully […]

You might call it “zoobotics.” Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at U of T Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimeters in diameter, […]

Long-lasting, quick-charging batteries are essential to the expansion of the electric vehicle market, but today’s lithium-ion batteries fall short of what’s needed—they’re too heavy, too expensive and take too long to charge.This post was originally […]

A researcher at University of Limerick has developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly sensor that can detect damage in pipelines and could save water as a result.This post was originally published on this site

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…actually pretty easy for radar to tell the difference. Flying aliens from Krypton notwithstanding, there are simply not many things moving through the mostly […]