Engineering

New Plant-Derived Composite Has a Hardness of Aluminum and Toughness of Bone

Each year, billions of tons of cellulose is produced from the plants to manufacture paper, board, and textiles. Some of it is also used in the food industry as a thickening agent for drinks, ice…

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Scientists Develop Fully Woven, Electronic Display Fabrics

E-textiles are not new, but most existing versions are often restricted in dimensions, functionality, have poor air permeability, and are too complex to mass-produce. However, with the rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies, electronic…

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Nuclear Fusion Reactor Smashes Energy Record…taking us a Step Closer to a New Source of Power

In a revolutionary breakthrough, the UK-based Joint European Torus (JET) lab has achieved a new milestone. Scientists broke the record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion set over 24 years ago. Nuclear fusion is safe…

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AI-Powered Drones Helping to Find Marine Debris

Marine debris threatens the environment, human health, navigation safety, coastal tourism and contributes to climate change. It travels across large distances, and observations of its composition and distributions in the ocean are very sparse and…

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This is What Caused SpaceX to Lose 40 Starlink Satellites

SpaceX informed the public that 40 Starlink satellites that the firm launched on Thursday, February 3, 2022, have de-orbited and will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in a monitored and safe descent. Only nine satellites of…

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Artificial intelligence is helping develop better-tasting fruits

There is a reason that fresh produce from the supermarket sometimes tastes bad. Taste is far down on the list of fruit and vegetable growers when they develop new varieties of produce called “cultivars” (short…

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Meta Needs an AI Supercomputer, and NVIDIA Offered to Build It

Meta, the re-branding of Facebook that signifies the dawn of a new age for the company, needs a powerful new AI research supercomputer to help it build better AI models for a range of purposes.…

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These Are The Winners of The 2022 Lexus Design Awards

Lexus has announced the six finalists for the 2022 Design Awards, selected from a pool of 1,726 entries. These six entries will get the chance to develop prototypes with the help of the company’s manufacturing…

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Game-Changing Technology Can Remove 99% of CO2 From Air to End Pollution

The world needs carbon capture technologies if we want Earth to continue to be a tolerable place for humans. The world emits about 43 billion tons of CO2 a year. So to meet the global-consensus…

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Amidst Competition: Giving Yourself a Chance to Succeed as an App Developer

Applications have become integral parts of our day-to-day operations, giving us gateways to services we use, entertainment in the palm of our hands, and information we couldn’t access as easily otherwise. As such, a thriving…

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