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Airborne shipments of lithium-batteries face tighter fire-retardant packaging standards
Airborne shipments of lithium-batteries face tighter fire-retardant packaging standards
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The Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) which represents lithium-battery manufacturers has agreed to the outlines of tighter fire-retardant packaging standards for…
Practical compact fusion reactor proposed by MIT
Practical compact fusion reactor proposed by MIT
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) have proposed a new design for a practical compact nuclear fusion…
LEDs spot quantum dots to produce high-performance nanophotonic devices
LEDs spot quantum dots to produce high-performance nanophotonic devices
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An international team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the USA, in collaboration…
Electronic skin sensors aim to control mobile devices
Electronic skin sensors aim to control mobile devices
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University have developed a skin-worn sensor that is capable of…

Biochemical sensor provides real-time data for cancer treatment
Biochemical sensor provides real-time data for cancer treatment
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Researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research have developed a biochemical sensor that can be implanted in cancerous tissue during an initial biopsy to enable better monitoring and…
The microscopic model of battery discharging in the case of a lead-acid
The microscopic model of battery discharging in the case of a lead-acid
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Szabo Levente explains a microscopic model of discharging in the case of a lead-acid battery and offers simple models taking into account, voltage, capacity, aging and more..
Two simple secondary battery circuits
Two simple secondary battery circuits
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James Bryant considers the issues related to two simple secondary battery circuits.
Mission to Mars: Red, blue and green LEDs grow food for space travel
Mission to Mars: Red, blue and green LEDs grow food for space travel
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NASA astronauts on the International Space Station will be sampling fresh food grown in the microgravity environment of space for the first time by using a flat panel light bank…
The microscopic model of discharging in the case of a lead-acid battery
The microscopic model of discharging in the case of a lead-acid battery
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Szabo Levente explains a microscopic model of discharging in the case of a lead-acid battery.
World’s first 6-inch 4K AMOLED panel target VR devices
World’s first 6-inch 4K AMOLED panel target VR devices
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EverDisplay Optronics (EDO) has launched what is claimed to be the world's first 6-inch 4K AMOLED display.
A 3D cursor for a 3D world
A 3D cursor for a 3D world
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With the advent of smartphones and smartwatches, how users interact with computers or smart devices in an inherently 3D world begs rethinking. This brings us to question whether the 2D…
Red, blue and green LEDs grow food for space travel
Red, blue and green LEDs grow food for space travel
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NASA astronauts on the International Space Station will be sampling fresh food grown in the microgravity environment of space for the first time by using a flat panel light bank…
‘Funtenna’ hack turns IoT devices into radios
‘Funtenna’ hack turns IoT devices into radios
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Security researchers have revealed a technique that could allow hackers to steal data from IoT devices by essentially turning them into radios and then listening to the signals they broadcast…
Drone detects ZigBee to map hackable IoT devices
Drone detects ZigBee to map hackable IoT devices
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Using a flying drone capable of detecting Internet-connected devices, information security firm Praetorian (New York, NY) was able to identify over 1,600 unique IoT devices in a test flight over…
Blue LED discovery offers chemical-free food preservation alternative
Blue LED discovery offers chemical-free food preservation alternative
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Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) have strong antibacterial effect on major foodborne pathogens which paves the way to use…
Lossless coding for transmission of high-resolution image data
Lossless coding for transmission of high-resolution image data
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IHSE and Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS have collaborated to implement an innovative lightweight coding technology (LICI). The codec, developed by Fraunhofer, adapts image data streams to the available communication…
Augmented theatre: a 100% French feat
Augmented theatre: a 100% French feat
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During this summer's Avignon Festival, French cultural startup Theatre in Paris leveraged another French startup’s augmented reality eyewear, the ORA connected glasses from Optinvent, to provide foreign theatre goers see-through…
ZigBee-sniffing drone maps hackable IoT devices
ZigBee-sniffing drone maps hackable IoT devices
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Using a flying drone capable of detecting Internet-connected devices, information security firm Praetorian (New York, NY) was able to identify over 1,600 unique IoT devices in a test flight over…
Fermilab experiment detects neutrinos change over 500 miles
Fermilab experiment detects neutrinos change over 500 miles
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Fermilab scientists have seen the first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, which confirm that the researcher's neutinro detector is not only functional but is also making progress toward its goal of…
Nanoparticle electrodes offer capacity boost for lithium-ion batteries
Nanoparticle electrodes offer capacity boost for lithium-ion batteries
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A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have created an electrode made of nanoparticles that could improve cycle life of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
Cars learn to deal with each other automatically
Cars learn to deal with each other automatically
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Automated driving is water under the bridge – what’s hot today is cooperative driving. In the Ko-HAF project (cooperative automated driving), a number of OEMs and electronics suppliers try to…
Online design tool adds precision to inductor loss calculations
Online design tool adds precision to inductor loss calculations
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Red Expert is online software from Würth Elektronik eiSos (Waldenburg, Germany), enabling users of the company’s power inductors to simulate operation and derive AC losses with a high degree of…
MOSFET failure protection for a single output polyPhase converter
MOSFET failure protection for a single output polyPhase converter
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The low output voltage rails in many of today's leading edge communication, networking, computer and industrial systems must be designed to meet the competing demands of higher load current, higher…
GaN-on-Silicon LED die target high power applications
GaN-on-Silicon LED die target high power applications
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Plessey has released the company's range of MaGIC LED die which is manufactured using the company's patented GaN-on-Silicon technology.
Tunable source converts DC electric field to terahertz radiation
Tunable source converts DC electric field to terahertz radiation
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Terahertz radiation, the no-man's land of the electromagnetic spectrum, has long stymied researchers.
Don’t get stuck at the light: start-stop technology and battery management
Don’t get stuck at the light: start-stop technology and battery management
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If the futurists are correct, in 50 years our grandchildren will be driving autonomous electric vehicles that they summon up from the cloud on demand. Gasoline will be a historical…
Elastomers can be turned into actuators
Elastomers can be turned into actuators
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Wherever mechanical movements need to be damped, elastomers are an ideal material. But this group of synthetic material has more to offer: Under certain circumstances it can be made to…
3D-printed ‘benchtop’ brain promises drug, disorder advances
3D-printed ‘benchtop’ brain promises drug, disorder advances
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Researchers at the University of Wollongong (Australia) have developed a 3D-printed layered structure with neural cells that mimics the structure of brain tissue.


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