Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Multi-story buildings are assembled over cautiously to withstand wind strengths, researchers have found. This is because there are several difficulties in estimating damping—the method of removing…
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Wildfires knocked out power to an entire county. A microgrid of generators brought it back
Credit: CC0 Public Domain After an onslaught of about 150 lightning strikes hit one of California’s most drought-stricken regions last month, sparking more than two dozen fires, the flames spread…
New methodology reveals health, climate impacts of reducing buildings’ energy use
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Increasing energy efficiency in buildings can save money—and it can also decrease the carbon emissions and air pollution that lead to climate change and health harms.…
A strategy to fabricate highly performing tin perovskite-based transistors
Tin halide perovskite enabling low-temperature poly-silicon level transistor performance and the logic circuits integration. Credit: Zhu et al. Metal halide perovskites are semiconducting materials with advantageous optoelectronic properties, low defects…
‘Brainless’ robot can navigate complex obstacles
Researchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on that work, creating a “brainless” soft robot that can navigate…
Building megaprojects on time and under-budget
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A Perspective sheds light on why megaprojects take so long and cost so much—and what can be done to prevent the problem. Why did Boston’s “Big…
Scientists create soft and scalable robotic hand based on multiple materials
Credit: Alves et al Robots based on soft materials are often better at replicating the appearance, movements and abilities of both humans and animals. While there are now countless soft…
Autonomous cargo drone with sustainable structures and intelligent battery systems
The ALBACOPTER—a cross between a multicopter and a glider. Credit: Fraunhofer IVI Urban air mobility (UAM) does more than just open up new potential in terms of transporting goods: if…
Researchers propose linear scan-based vat photopolymerization for 3D printing ultra-high viscosity resin
Illustration of LSVP. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39913-4 Additionally, the researchers evaluated the LSVP system to study how the viscosity affects the mechanical properties. They compared UV-curable resins with…
New drone research plans to advances wildfire monitoring
A wind sensor prototype in Alaska gathers data. Credit: Lawrence Tsai Typically, the primary indicator of a burgeoning wildfire in California is a plume of hazy, gray smoke wafting through…
