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TU Graz Explores Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Himalayas

Using 3D technology and interdisciplinary expertise, a research team has explored Buddhist temples in the remote Dolpo region of Nepal and digitized them for posterity In the high-altitude and extremely remote region of Dolpo in north-west Nepal, there are numerous Buddhist temples whose history dates back to the 11th century. The structures are threatened by earthquakes, landslides and planned infrastructure projects such as the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. There is also a lack of financial resources for long-term maintenance….

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Alloy developed at Sandia has potential for electronics in wells

Sandia National Laboratories first investigated the gold-silver-germanium alloy about 15 years ago as a possible bonding material in a new neutron tube…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Push-Button Harvesting: Innovating Fast-Growing Tree SRCs

Fast-growing trees, which are becoming an increasingly important source of renewable energy, are planted on Short Rotation Coppices (SRCs). In order to fulfil…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UMass Researchers Uncover Novel Biological Electron Transfer Mechanism

“For biologists, Geobacter’s behavior represents a paradigm shift. It goes against all that we are taught about biological electron transfer, which usually…

Materials Sciences

Graphene-Molybdenite Flash Memory: A Major Step Forward

After the molybdenite chip, we now have molybdenite flash memory, a significant step forward in the use of this new material in electronics applications. The…

Process Engineering

Laser Glass Soldering: Efficient Packaging for Large Components

Unlike other processes, the laser beam is able to apply energy to a limited space in order to melt the glass solder precisely, thus generating a bond with…

Materials Sciences

Cell on a Chip: Unveiling Protein Behavior Insights

For years, scientists around the world have dreamed of building a complete, functional, artificial cell. Though this vision is still a distant blur on the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Next-Gen Tidal Stream Power Plants: SeaGen-S Unveiled

Today, the SeaGen power plant in a northern Irish narrows has an installed capacity of 1.2 megawatts (MW). The SeaGen-S will deliver two MW. The Welsh…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Eco-Friendly Electric Buses Set to Transform Vienna Transit

The transportation authorities are now planning to operate two lines exclusively with eBuses by the middle of 2013. During the Skiing World Championships in…

Process Engineering

Laser-Based Coating: Efficient Solutions for Temperature-Sensitive Substrates

Because conventional coating processes are increasingly coming up against their technological limits and are often too costly, the Fraunhofer Institute for…

Materials Sciences

Self-Assembled Nanostructures: Low-Power Memory Innovation

Flash memory is a dominant technology in this field, but its slow writing and erasing speed has led to extensive research into a next-generation nonvolatile…

Power and Electrical Engineering

'Metasurfaces' to usher in new optical technologies

The metasurfaces could make possible “planar photonics” devices and optical switches small enough to be integrated into computer chips for information…

Power and Electrical Engineering

GE Power Conversion to Supply one of the World’s Most Advanced Wind Turbine Test Facilities

GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) has signed a turnkey contract with the Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center (LORC), a Danish center for test of…

Materials Sciences

Flexible Minerals Inspired by Deep Sea Sponges Innovation

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Germany have created a new synthetic…

Materials Sciences

Organic Nanowire Phototransistors: A New Era in Miniaturization

Phototransistors are a kind of transistors in which the incident light intensity can modulate the charge-carrier density in the channel. Compared with…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer IKTS and Mayur REnergy: Advancing SOFC Systems for India

Main goal of the partnership is the development of a fuel cell product at local prices which will help to solve the electricity situation in India and other…

Materials Sciences

High-performance, organic nanowire phototransistors opens the way for optoelectronic device miniaturization

Phototransistors are transistors in which the incident light intensity can modulate the charge-carrier density in the channel. Compared with conventional…

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