Excavation work for the Limberg 3 pumped storage power plant is wrapping up. High in the Austrian Alps, hundreds of construction workers toil in a huge underground project aimed at…
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Startup bets on kitesurf to blow away shipping pollution
The startup Beyond The Sea tests a blue inflatable kite sail the size of a small studio to pull a specially-designed catamaran across the water. Inspired by kitesurfing, French firms…
Brain’s Melody and Prose: How Music and Language Affect Different Regions
Summary: A recent study reveals how different brain areas are activated when processing music and language. Using direct brain recordings during an awake craniotomy, the researchers observed shared temporal lobe…
‘Clone’ or competitor? Users and lawyers compare Twitter and Threads
This photo, taken in New York on July 5, 2023, show the logo for Meta’s new app Threads, right, and that of Twitter. In a cease-and-desist letter earlier this week,…
UN tech agency rolls out human-looking robots for questions at a Geneva news conference
Robots are presented during a press conference with a panel of AI-enabled humanoid social robots as part of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ‘AI for Good’ global summit in Geneva, Switzerland,…
Master Your Breath, Master Your Health: The Transformative Power of Controlled Breathing
Summary: Breathing, an autonomous function, also possesses a feature unique to a few bodily activities: we can control it. According to research, controlled breathing stimulates the nervous and cardiovascular systems,…
Thyssenkrupp’s hydrogen unit surges in stock market debut
Nucera CEO Werner Ponikwar (R) said his firm was ‘well on our way to becoming one of the leading green hydrogen companies’ Thyssenkrupp’s green hydrogen unit Nucera made a strong…
Training robots how to learn, make decisions on the fly
by University of Illinois Dept. of Aerospace Engineering The proposed deep Gaussian process model is trained on the offline database with deep meta-learning with controlled deployment gaps, which repeatedly splits…
Offshore floating wind farms bring environmental benefits throughout life cycle, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Offshore wind farms bring environmental benefits throughout their life cycle. This understanding emerges from a study published in the international journal Sustainable Production and Consumption in…
