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How digital twins enhance design and control of off-road autonomy
Mechanical engineering PhD student Ted Sender configures the physical MRZR vehicle platform, interfaced with a synthetic off-road environment in the Digital Engineering (DE) lab of the Automotive Research Center. A…
Eco-friendly kilns help Malawi’s fish curers cut losses
Dried fish. Researcher James Banda says, the eco-friendly kilns can process 100 kg of fish in two hours. Credit: Charles Mpaka Closing his eyes as he battled smoke wafting from…
Catalytic technology removes toxic chemicals from microchip manufacturing wastewater
Professor Long Nghiem is working with IWI Australia on catalytic technology for water. Credit: University of Technology, Sydney Semiconductor manufacturing is a fastidiously clean business. Components are washed multiple times…
Superconductor-quantum dot combo manipulates Majorana bound states
Left: The 2DEG chip measured in these experiments (top) connected to a chip containing electrical resonators (bottom), that enable fast calibrations. Right: Electron microscope image of a nanoscale device used…
Novel architecture improves control of microwave resonators for quantum computers
Superconducting qubits are cooled in a cryostat close to absolute zero temperature. Credit: University of Innsbruck Innsbruck physicists have presented a new architecture for improved quantum control of microwave resonators.…
Space junk falling to Earth needs to be tracked—meteoroid sounds can help
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound…
A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped create a new antivenom
A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized himself against snakebites by injecting increasing doses of venom into his body.
How to catch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, debris of Halley’s comet
This photo provided by NASA shows an Eta Aquarid meteor streaking over northern Georgia on April 29, 2012. Credit: B. Cooke/Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA via AP, File Halley’s comet swings…
