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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Photo credit: Virrage Images / Shutterstock.com Recent studies have shed light on how the color of a car might affect its likelihood of being involved in an accident. Research from Monash University’s Accident Research Centre in Australia has provided insightful data on this matter. percent of these accidents. percent of collisions.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, and colleagues in Japan report a promising hydrogen carrier in the form of hydrogen boride nanosheets. This material, which has only recently begun to be explored, could go on to be used as safe, light-weight, high-capacity hydrogen storage materials.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights. Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. But decorative lights aren't new. His tree now boasted 120 lights and more colors.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” His biggest hit was the Chia Pet.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Universal Display Corp. OLEDs—organic light-emitting diodes—convert electrical energy directly into photons. When current passes through an OLED, electrons leave the cathode and holes leave the anode; they recombine in the central emissive layer, joining into excitons and releasing either light or heat as they decay.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. In 1914, Torres Quevedo laid out his ideas in the article, “Ensayos sobre automática. In the article, he updated Charles Babbage’s ideas for the analytical engine with the currency of the day: electricity.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

patent application for a “new and improved orrery,” Musser mentioned the importance of showing the asteroid belt, in light of growing interest in space travel beyond the moon and Mars. A translucent screen had astronomical labels and markings inscribed in phosphorus, visible only when backlit with ultraviolet light. In his 1958 U.S.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

New research led by the University of Leicester in the UK has made a novel breakthrough in understanding how solidification cracking occurs during the welding of steel, an important engineering alloy. —Professor Hong Dong from the University of Leicester Department of Engineering. Marsden, A.

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MARCH 20, 2024

has invested in SteerLight, the developer of a new generation of high-performance LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensing technology. Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis N.V.,

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APRIL 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a natural process for the breakdown of biomass they describe as “reverse photosynthesis”—as opposed to the building of biomass as is the case with photosynthesis. The immense energy in solar light can be used so that processes can take place without additional energy inputs.

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MAY 4, 2018

nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. The gallium nitride turns light, or photons, into mobile electrons and positively charged vacancies called holes.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Jaswal, Vice-Chancellor of SRM University (Haryana), among others attended the 58th ACMA Excellence Awards function. Jaswal, Vice-Chancellor of SRM University (Haryana), among others attended the 58th ACMA Excellence Awards function. Shradha Suri Marwah, President, ACMA ,and CMD, Subros Ltd.,

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MARCH 23, 2022

Heretofore, pulling off that magic trick required the ability to detect light that had interacted with the genuine, real-world article. A camera recorded the near-infrared light. Brandon Martin/Rice University. They next used the far-red beam to illuminate the sample.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. In 1914, Torres Quevedo laid out his ideas in the article, “Ensayos sobre automática. In the article, he updated Charles Babbage’s ideas for the analytical engine with the currency of the day: electricity.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Grove Award “for contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.” She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. When voltage is applied, a bright light is emitted from each individual pixel.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Scientists from the University of Maryland (UMD), Baidu Research and the University of Hong Kong have developed a photo-realistic simulation system for training and validating self-driving vehicles. The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views of this organization. Resources. Gong, W.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Smith at Bell Labs , consist of a sensor that converts an incoming two-dimensional light pattern into an electrical signal that in turn becomes an image. CCDs, which were invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E.

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JULY 31, 2022

This article was first published as “M. the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. Every yellow light-emitting diode you see—that’s George’s work.” Appearances are deceiving. George Craford.”

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MARCH 31, 2024

His first story, “ The Dangerous Dimension ,” was a light-hearted tale about a professor who could teleport anywhere in the universe simply by thinking “Equation C.” An abridged version of this article appears in the April 2024 print issue as “The Scientology Machine.” A human auditor interprets the device’s readings.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Spurlock Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bell Labs used one of the boxes to demonstrate the transistor’s portability. Bardeen brought his box to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when he joined the faculty in 1951. The other two music boxes went to Bardeen and Brattain. Only Bardeen’s survives.

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. The porosity in the presence of conventional electrolytes jumps to 16.8%. 1721646).

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

An article from Model 3 owner and Tesla enthusiast Nick Howard explained that Tesla is essentially gamifying the act of driving, encouraging owners to drive in a manner that would allow their scores to be higher. Her Safety Score was reduced due to hard braking at a “quick changing yellow light.”

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

To figure out how to make electric trucks work in practice, the manufacturer, the state of California, and a wide array of partners—more than a dozen all told—launched the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project in 2019 to test its first electric Class 8 tractors with multiple Southern California operators.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

As the pandemic continued to grind on, it was actually comforting to know that smart people in the energy sector were working hard to keep the lights on, advance the technology, and improve people’s lives. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

However, while greenhouse gases cause warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere, some aerosols can have a cooling effect on the climate because the aerosol particles cause more of the sun’s light to be reflected away from the planet. Estimates indicate that aerosols have offset about a third of greenhouse gas-driven warming since the 1950s.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Jupiter’s northern (and southern) lights Jupiter's polar auroras are the largest and most powerful known in the solar system—and O'Donoghue says the energy in them, caused as Jupiter's atmosphere is buffeted by solar wind, is strong enough to heat the outer atmosphere of the entire planet. Simon/Goddard Space Flight Center and M.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling Maximizing Value at the End of a Car’s Life This article may contain affiliate links. The Light of Education Initiatives that educate and inform the public about proper disposal and recycling methods offer enlightenment without resorting to promotional tactics.

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MAY 8, 2015

Researchers from Soochow University in China report that the newly found B 40 —the first experimentally observed all-boron fullerene—when coated with 6 titanium atoms (Ti 6 B 40 ) can store up to 34 hydrogen molecules, corresponding to a maximum gravimetric density of 8.7 wt%. According to their DFT calculations, it takes 0.2-0.4 eV/H

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. North Carolina State University In this new work, the researchers focused on corn and soybean plants, given their importance to the global economy and food supply.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This information can be used either to communicate directly with the driver – such as by displaying a warning – or to initiate appropriate driving maneuvers, such as braking while switching on the hazard warning lights.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

webinar, IEEE Fellow Raja Chatila , professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University in France and a member of the country’s National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics , pointed to one early example. This article is an edited excerpt of the “ Addressing Critical Challenges in Connected Autonomous Vehicles ” blog entry published in October.

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JULY 8, 2023

All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale. Mass), Amherst.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. In E Ink’s Triton and Kaleido displays, color filters turn light reflected from white particles into red, green, and blue subpixels.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

They will power themselves from the sun or indoor lighting—which favors small scale. Some things are just really hard to scale down, and building robots that are the size of bees or flies or even gnats requires advances in (among other things) sensing for autonomy as well as appropriate power systems.

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JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new catalyst—iron-centered tetraamido macrocyclic ligand (Fe-TAML)—that efficiently catalyzes water oxidation. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja104766. Studies are underway to improve the usefulness of Fe-TAMLs for water splitting. Ellis et al. Resources. Chadwick Ellis, Neal D.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

This summer, at the Paris Olympic Games, security officials will perform a much bigger experiment in the heart of the City of Light, covering the events, the entire Olympic village, and the connecting roads and rails. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. This article appears in the January 2024 print issue.

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