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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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Materials Sciences

RWTH Aachen and Maastricht Team Up for Advanced Biobased Materials

Situated at the Chemelot Chemical Innovation Community in the Province of Limburg, NL, partners strive for excellence in most modern biobased materials…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Notre Dame Researchers Create Affordable Paint-On Solar Cells

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame have made a major advance toward this vision by creating an inexpensive “solar paint” that uses…

Materials Sciences

Silk Microneedles: Painless Drug Delivery Innovations

The tiny needles can be fabricated under normal temperature and pressure and from water, so they can be loaded with sensitive biochemical compounds and…

Automotive Engineering

Optimizing Electric Motors: Boosting Range for Cars and Aircraft

The project Plug&Play Range Extender is examining how a module made of a small, fuel-efficient combustion engine and an alternator can increase the range of…

Machine Engineering

Simatic PCS 7 Version 8: Enhanced Process Control Innovations

In Version 8 of Simatic PCS 7 the data exchange between the Cosmos plant management software and the PCS 7 engineering tools has been improved and the…

Machine Engineering

Unmatched Air Compressor Innovation for Plastic Manufacturing

Each one can compress 700,000 cubic meters of air to 2.4 bar every hour, which is the highest flow rate of an axial-flow compressor in the world. The plant…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SECTOR Project: Advancing Sustainable Energy from Biomass

SECTOR (Production of Solid Sustainable Energy Carriers from Biomass by Means of TORrefaction) is a large-scale European project with a strong consortium of 21…

Transportation and Logistics

Boosting Aviation Safety: The Role of Culture and Norms

One effective way for airline companies to reduce violations is to focus more on norms, safety culture and risk awareness within the organisation rather than…

Materials Sciences

Self-Healing Electronics: Longer Life and Less Waste

A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it…

Materials Sciences

Athens Attic Vases Influence Cypriote Pottery Design

Niki Eriksson, who has studied the Attic pottery found in Cyprus, points out that the pottery was imported from the early 500s BC to the late 300 BC, she also…

Materials Sciences

Invisibility Cloak: Metamaterials Make Science Fiction Real

Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, become reality: Light waves can be…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Cutting Fuel Cell Production Costs with Noble Metal Nanoparticles

A noble metal nanoparticle catalyst for fuel cells is prepared using atomic layer deposition (ALD). This ALD method for manufacturing fuel cells requires 60…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Algal Protein Enhances Electrochemical Water Splitting Efficiency

Water splitting in photo-electrochemical cells to yield hydrogen is a promising way to sustainable fuels. A team of Swiss and US scientists now made major…

Materials Sciences

Infrared Technology: Assessing Fire Impact on Materials

In addition, there is the problem of the high concentration of gasses (CO2, H2O and others), which makes it difficult to obtain clear images of the sample…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Study Shows Sugarcane Ethanol Production Causes Air Pollution

UC Merced graduate student Chi-Chung Tsao was the lead author on the paper and was aided in the study by UC Merced professors Elliott Campbell and Yihsu Chen….

Materials Sciences

New Cotton Fabric Cleans Itself When Exposed to Ordinary Sunlight

Mingce Long and Deyong Wu say their fabric uses a coating made from a compound of titanium dioxide, the white material used in everything from white paint to…

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