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Compact Fusion Power Plant Concept Uses State-of-the-Art Physics To Improve Energy Production
The Compact Advanced Tokamak (CAT) is a potentially economical solution for fusion energy production that takes advantage of advances in simulation and technology. Credit: Image…
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A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions. Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit a hole-in-one on…
View More New Machine-Learning System Gives Robots Social SkillsStanford Phase-Change Memory Could Pave the Way to Ultrafast, Energy-Efficient Computing
Scientists have spent decades searching for faster, more energy-efficient memory technologies for everything from large data centers to mobile sensors and other flexible electronics.…
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Credit: Led Gapline/Shutterstock In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse,” Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Modeling reveals that even rooms with efficient ventilation often have areas where the air is stagnant. Assistant Professor Ville Vuorinen believes…
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SIMEC Atlantis Energy’s AR1500 turbine being installed at MeyGen, North Scotland. Credit: SIMEC Atlantis Energy Tidal stream power has the potential to deliver 11% of…
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A team from UNIGE has implemented a new way to secure data transfers based on the physical principle of relativity. The volume of data transferred…
View More Securing Data Transfers With Relativity: Information Cannot Travel Faster Than the Speed of LightAutonomous Robotic Rover Provides New Insight Into Life on the Deep Abyssal Seafloor
MBARI’s Benthic Rover II travels across the muddy seafloor, taking photographs and measuring how much oxygen bottom-dwelling animals and microbes are using over time. The…
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Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea. In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers…
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