[ An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Washington. The US air safety regulator said Saturday that it was grounding some Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets pending inspections, a day after a panel blew out of one of the planes over the western state of Oregon. The Federal … Read more
[ Fabrication processes for vdW peeling of BP. a,b, Schematic (a) and optical image (b) of a multilayer BP flake exfoliated onto a silicon substrate. c,d, Schematic (c) and optical image (d) of a Pt stripe physically laminated on top of a BP flake. e,f, By physically peeling off the Pt stripe (e), the topmost … Read more
[ A Boeing 737 MAX 7 takes off on its first flight, Friday, March 16, 2018, in Renton, Wash. Boeing is asking federal regulators to exempt a new model of its 737 Max airliner from a safety standard designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight. Boeing needs … Read more
[ The phase-out of subsidies for electric cars has been hurting sales in Germany. Sales of new cars in Germany increased in 2023, official data showed Thursday, but an end to government subsidy programs saw electric vehicles lose ground on fossil-fuel models. A total of 2.8 million new cars hit the road in Europe’s largest … Read more
[ Chemical structure of the newly developed conductive polymer and performance of stretchable organic solar cells using the material. Credit: Joule (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.11.005 With the market for wearable electric devices growing rapidly, stretchable solar cells that can function under strain have received considerable attention as an energy source. To build such solar cells, it … Read more
[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). But whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess. In February, ChatGPT set the record as the fastest app to reach 100 million users. It was followed by … Read more
[ Credit: Erik Mclean from Pexels Due to the urgent need to cut fossil fuel emissions, the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is both inevitable and essential. The EU is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport by 90% by 2040, and foresees 13 million zero and low-emission vehicles on the roads by 2025. … Read more
[ Credit: Roh et al, Nature Electronics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-01089-6 Over the past decades, electronics engineers have created devices of various shapes and with increasingly sophisticated designs. This includes electronics that can be folded onto themselves, such as foldable phones, along with various other compressible devices. Researchers at Ajou University and other institutes in South … Read more
[ Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million electric vehicles in China, the country’s market regulator said Friday, owing to software issues that could pose safety risks while driving. The recall—sparked by the discovery of problems with assisted driving functions and door-locking systems—will be conducted through remote ‘over-the-air’ (OTA) updates to the cars’ software. China … Read more
[ Facial recognition technology was used at King Charles III’s coronation and the British Grand Prix. On a gray, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby. The use of live facial recognition … Read more
