[ A wafer containing memristors fabricated with high-quality two-dimensional carbon processed from bituminous Blue Gem coal mined in southeastern Kentucky, two samples of which are shown here. Credit: The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Coal is an abundant resource in the United States that has, unfortunately, contributed to climate change through … Read more
[ (a) Traditional activation method of PS-AOPs technology. (b) Mechanism of piezoelectric/PS-AOPs. (c) Annual number of publications concerning piezoelectric/PS-AOPs. Credit: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100329 In a recent study published in the journal Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, scientists from Jinan University discuss a new, eco-friendly way to clean water. They’ve discovered a method … Read more
[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain Recent research has found a way to leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to more efficiently screen out bad ideas to focus on only good ideas in the crowdsourcing process within ideation. More specifically, the research has arrived at a simple model for screening out ideas that experts might … Read more
[ FIND is a new benchmark suite for evaluating automated interpretability methods in neural networks, featuring functions that mimic real-world network components and their complexities. It also presents a novel interactive method using automated interpretability agents, which employ pretrained language models to generate descriptions of function behavior, demonstrating the agent’s ability to infer function structure … Read more
[ Applying a transparent Pr3+/Eu3+-doped glass-ceramic layer on top of a photovoltaic cell simultaneously protects it from damaging UV light and converts that UV radiation to visible light, thereby enhancing the light-to-energy conversion efficiency. Credit: Journal of Photonics for Energy Over the past decade, photovoltaic cells (PCs) have garnered much attention worldwide as promising sources … Read more
[ A schematic for creating the SciA11y HTML render from a paper PDF. Starting with the raw two-column PDF on the left, S2ORC [24] is used to extract the title, authors, abstract, section headers, body text, and references. S2ORC also identifies links between inline citations and references to figures and table objects. DeepFigures [43] is … Read more
[ Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Mechanical Engineering For drones to save lives in search and rescue missions, or even reliably deliver our packages, they need to navigate dynamic environments without accident. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have had success steering through open spaces time and time again, but the unpredictability of moving obstacles has been a … Read more
[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A group of critical raw materials may help Europe reduce supply-chain vulnerabilities. Dr. Arne Petter Ratvik is championing high-tech goods for Europe through a low-tech source: fertilizer. Ratvik, a metals expert at independent Norwegian research organization SINTEF, says raw materials needed by the European auto, computer, electronics, energy and other … Read more
[ Traditional models for analyzing the path-following performance of autonomous ships can lead to inaccurate predictions. CFD models can lead to more accurate assessment and, therefore, lead to safer autonomous navigation. Credit: Daejeong Kim, Korea Maritime & Ocean University The rising popularity of autonomous vehicles has spurred significant research interest in the maritime industry, particularly … Read more
[ Factors that limit the uptake of Inclusive Design among architectural design practitioners. Credit: Architectural Science Review (2023). DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2270983 Inclusive design has been widely promoted in the fields of product design, engineering, and user experience design. Despite the educational efforts made by scientists, practitioners, and institutions to raise awareness about accessibility and inclusion, it … Read more
