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July 23, 2023

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Aluminum Materials Show Promising Performance for Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Batteries

Researchers are using aluminum foil to create batteries with higher energy density and greater stability. The team's new battery system could enable electric vehicles to run longer on a single charge and would be cheaper to manufacture -- all while ...

Allowing Robots to Explore on Their Own

Scientists have developed a suite of robotic systems and planners enabling robots to explore more quickly, probe the darkest corners of unknown environments, and create more accurate and detailed maps. The systems allow robots to do all this autonomously, finding their way and creating a map ...

Catalyst Can Control Methane Emissions in Natural Gas Engines

A catalyst using a single or just a few palladium atoms removed 90% of unburned methane from natural gas engine exhaust at low temperatures in a recent study. While more research needs to be done, the advance in single atom catalysis has the potential to lower exhaust emissions of methane, one of ...

Robot Team on Lunar Exploration Tour

Engineers are training legged robots for future lunar missions that will search for minerals and raw materials. To ensure that the robots can continue to work even if one of them malfunctions, the researchers are teaching them ...
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All-Electric Rideshare Fleet Could Reduce Carbon Emissions, Increase Traffic Issues

Two major ridesharing companies have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. To understand additional impacts of this transition, researchers conducted ...

New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Sensors

A new class of materials that can absorb low energy light and transform it into higher energy light might lead to more efficient solar panels, more accurate medical imaging and better night vision ...

Megawatt Electrical Motor Designed by Engineers Could Help Electrify Aviation

Aerospace engineers designed a 1-megawatt electrical motor that is a stepping stone toward electrifying the largest ...

Aviation Turbulence Strengthened as the World Warmed

New research shows that clear-air turbulence increased in various regions around the world from 1979 -- ...

Preventing Truck Crashes Needs to Take 'Dashcam' Approach to Driver 'Microsleeps'

Researchers using dashcam footage of real-world collisions involving large trucks to analyze driver and vehicle behavior has found that anti-drowsiness alarms or similar technologies to prevent ...

Metal Shortage Could Put the Brakes on Electrification

As more and more electric cars are traveling on the roads of Europe, this is leading to an increase in the use of the critical metals required for components such as electric motors and electronics. ...

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Windshield Washer Fluid Is an Unexpected Emission Source

Exhaust fumes probably come to mind when considering vehicle emissions, but they aren't the only source of pollutants released by a daily commute. Researchers report that alcohols in windshield ...

Robot Centipedes Go for a Walk

Researchers show how their multilegged walking robot can be steered by inducing a dynamic instability. By making the couplings between segments more flexible, the robot changes from walking straight ...

Team Develops New 'Attacker' Device to Improve Autonomous Car Safety

Researchers have devised a novel algorithm to identify areas for improvement in autonomous vehicle ...

Propellers Are Louder Over Ground

The effects of the ground on propeller noise have now been measured ...

Realistic Simulated Driving Environment Based on 'Crash-Prone' Michigan Intersection

The first statistically realistic roadway simulation has now been developed. While it currently represents a particularly perilous roundabout, future work will expand it to include other driving ...

How a Horse Whisperer Can Help Engineers Build Better Robots

New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our ...

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Transforming Highways for High-Speed Travel and Energy Transport

Researchers developed a proof of concept for a superconducting highway that could transport vehicles and electricity, cooling the necessary superconductors with a pipeline of liquid hydrogen. Most ...

A Neuromorphic Visual Sensor Can Recognize Moving Objects and Predict Their Path

The new smart sensor uses embedded information to detect motion in a single video ...

Electrification Push Will Have Enormous Impacts on Critical Metals Supply Chain

The demand for battery-grade lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and platinum will climb steeply as vehicle electrification speeds up and nations work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through ...

How Road Rage Really Affects Your Driving -- And the Self-Driving Cars of the Future

New research has identified characteristics of aggressive driving -- which impact both road users and the transition to self-driving cars of the ...

Sailing Cargo Ships Can Benefit from New Aerodynamic Tech

A research team has demonstrated a unique method that reduces the aerodynamic resistance of ships by 7.5 per cent. This opens the way for large cargo ships borne across the oceans by wind alone, as ...

Origami-Inspired Robots Can Sense, Analyze and Act in Challenging Environments

A multidisciplinary team has created a new fabrication technique for fully foldable robots that can perform a variety of complex tasks without relying on ...

Vehicle Exhaust Filters Do Not Remove Ultrafine Pollution

Filters fitted to vehicle exhaust systems to remove particulate matter pollution have limited impact on ultrafine particles, new research ...

Simulated Terrible Drivers Cut the Time and Cost of AV Testing by a Factor of One Thousand

The push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with safety testing, but a new system shows that artificial intelligence can reduce the testing miles ...

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