Category: Engineering

Israel has never officially admitted or denied possessing nuclear weapons, maintaining a stance of strategic ambiguity. However, many experts and analysts believe that Israel has a sizable nuclear arsenal, ranging from 80 to 400 warheads.  Israel is estimated to have developed its first nuclear weapon in the late 1960s, making it the sixth country in…

Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is applying its Deep Anomaly Surveillance (DeAnoS) artificial intelligence tool, originally designed for telecom networks, to predict anomalies in nuclear fusion reactors. DeAnoS is like a detective, trying to understand which part of the equation is making things weird. Atomic fusion reactors are at the forefront of scientific…

A team of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark has developed a novel idea to transform coal power plants into renewable energy sources using Carnot batteries. What are Carnot batteries? Carnot batteries can store and release electricity as heat using different materials, such as water, molten salt, or rocks. They can also work with…

China’s startup Landspace has been actively planning to build and design a reusable stainless steel rocket. Even SpaceX’s massive and powerful rocket, Starship, is constructed from stainless steel instead of carbon fiber. It is designed for missions that will send future astronauts to the moon or Mars. The unveiling of this ambitious project represents a…

Nov 24, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Microrobotics has advanced rapidly in recent years, allowing scientists to build minuscular machines able to penetrate hard-to-reach environments from inside the human body to contaminated waste sites. Propelling these tiny robots requires clever solutions, as their tiny size means they operate in a realm dominated by viscosity rather than inertia.…

Researchers have identified a specific brain region that helps vision-impaired people recognize basic faces. They have also created an experimental gadget that assists blind people in recognizing basic facial expressions. Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists revealed that the fusiform face area, a vital region for face processing in sighted people, plays an important role in…

Lhyfe, a global leader in green and renewable hydrogen production, proudly announces the triumphant return of Sealhyfe, the world’s first offshore hydrogen production pilot platform, after successfully achieving all objectives set during its groundbreaking launch in September 2022, the company announced. Sealhyfe, on trial since September 2022, underwent extensive testing at the quay and sea…

Remote places on Earth could be monitored by a new generation of robots. Credit: Mumemories Drawing inspiration from birds, fish and even worms, researchers in Europe are developing machines to explore places on Earth that are difficult for people to reach. The Ornithopter in the sci-fi blockbuster film Dune resembles a helicopter crossed with a…

Researchers at George Mason University, University of Texas at Austin, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have uncovered a startling revelation about the deadly impact of coal-fired power plants on our health.  The study breaks previous notions by indicating that exposure to coal PM2.5— microscopic air pollutants released during the combustion of coal—…

Naked Energy, a UK-based solar energy startup, has a different way of tapping into the renewable source. Its approach can be classified as a solar thermal energy system which utilizes the heat from the Sun and uses it directly for heating applications instead of trying to store it in a battery. The rapid rise of…