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Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry — new hardware could curb its appetite

To just solve a puzzle or play a game, artificial intelligence can require software running on thousands of computers. That could be the energy that three…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Real-Time Methanol Synthesis: Insights from Fraunhofer ISE Miniplant

Here, the main focus of the investigations is on dynamic reactor operation and unconventional gas compositions using hydrogen produced by electrolysis and gas…

Physics & Astronomy

How Charging Devices Adds Weight: A Quantum Leap Explained

Astonishing, but true: if you wind a mechanical watch, it becomes heavier. The same thing happens when you charge your smartphone. This can be explained by the…

Information Technology

Safe2Land – helps with engine-out and pilot incapacitation

A German aviation magazine honored the team of Wolfram Schiffmann, Professor of Computer Architecture at the FernUniversität in Hagen, for its emergency…

Life & Chemistry

Control of Self-Assembling Molecules: Freiburg Researchers’ Insights

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Andreas Walther and Prof. Dr. Henning Jessen from the Cluster of Excellence Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials…

Life & Chemistry

Control Your Home With Thought: The Future of Smart Living

Walking across the room to switch on a light – such a simple everyday activity involves enormously complex computations by the brain as it requires…

Life & Chemistry

How Bacteria Use Pili for Motion and Nutrient Capture

Bacteria of the species Thermus thermophilus possess two types of extensions on their surface (pili) for the purpose of motion and for capturing and absorbing…

Materials Sciences

Microscopic Cages for Neurons Developed at TU Wien

Microscopically small cages can be produced at TU Wien (Vienna). Their grid openings are only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells…

Physics & Astronomy

Atom-Sized Machines: Breakthrough in Quantum Mechanics

Here's a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing Broadband with Quantum Photonics and Precision Tilt

Quantum photonics involves a new type of technology that relies on photons, the elementary particle of light. These photons can potentially carry quantum bits…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion: Harnessing Air Plasmas

Humans depend on fossil fuels as their primary energy source, especially in transportation. However, fossil fuels are both unsustainable and unsafe, serving as…

Life & Chemistry

Bluetooth Device Monitors Fermentation Process Over Days

Electrochemical reactions that occur in processes like ethanolic fermentation include the transformation of sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Similar…

Earth Sciences

Advancing World Water Mapping with Hydrological Models

The research community works on this task with hydrological models, which are tools that enable them to represent processes in the hydrological cycle, and are…

Medical Engineering

Imaging Technology Visualizes Nanoscale Structures in Cells

Since Robert Hooke's first description of a cell in Micrographia 350 years ago, microscopy has played an important role in understanding the rules of life.

Materials Sciences

New Single-Crystal Electrode Boosts Energy Efficiency

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created and tested a single-crystal electrode that promises to yield…

Life & Chemistry

Water-Splitting Module: Low-Cost Hydrogen Fuel Innovation

Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.

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