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Renewables Grew to 15.5% of US Electricity Capacity in 2014

11.12.2015 | IEEE Spectrum | www.spectrum.ieee.org

Renewable electricity capacity reached 15.5% of the total installed electricity capacity in the US by the end of 2014, according to a report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Installed…

Renewables Grew to 15.5% of US Electricity Capacity in 2014

The Hyperloop Is About to Test Its Wicked-Fast Propulsion System

09.12.2015 | Wired | www.wired.com

The hyperloop is one small step closer to shuttling us around the country like paper flying through the pneumatic tubes banks used in the ’60s.

The Hyperloop Is About to Test Its Wicked-Fast Propulsion System

Stanford study finds promise in expanding renewables based on results in three major economies

07.12.2015 | Stanford University | news.stanford.edu

Stanford energy experts have released a study that compares the experiences of three large economies in ramping up renewable energy deployment and concludes that renewables can make a major and…

Stanford study finds promise in expanding renewables based on results in three major economies

Storing electricity in paper

04.12.2015 | Linköping University | www.liu.se

Researchers at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Sweden, have developed power paper – a new material with an outstanding ability to store energy. The material consists of…

Google’s TensorFlow Alone Will Not Revolutionize AI

02.12.2015 | Wired | www.wired.com

Google released its open sourced TensorFlow, an elegant and powerful artificial intelligence engine. Google uses this machine learning software internally to add capabilities like speech recognition…

Google’s TensorFlow Alone Will Not Revolutionize AI

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

30.11.2015 | CERN | www.home.cern

After the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its first months of data taking with proton collisions at a new energy frontier, the LHC is moving to a new phase, with the first…

CERN collides heavy nuclei at new record high energy

New ‘Self-Healing’ Gel Makes Electronics More Flexible

27.11.2015 | The University of Texas at Austin | news.utexas.edu

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a first-of-its-kind self-healing gel that repairs and connects electronic circuits, creating…

New ‘Self-Healing’ Gel Makes Electronics More Flexible

Researchers find new, inexpensive way to clean water from oil sands production

25.11.2015 | University of Waterloo | www.uwaterloo.ca

Researchers have developed a process to remove contaminants from oil sands wastewater using only sunlight and nanoparticles that is more effective and inexpensive than conventional treatment methods.

Researchers find new, inexpensive way to clean water from oil sands production

Nexa3D needs your cash to make its 'ultrafast' 3D printer

23.11.2015 | Engadget | www.engadget.com

Company called Nexa3D has launched a product on Kickstarter, claiming that you'll be able to print objects at a speed of around 1-inch every 3 minutes. That's around 25-100 times faster than a…

Nexa3D needs your cash to make its 'ultrafast' 3D printer

Humpback Whales Solve a Big Problem for Wind Turbines

20.11.2015 | Wired | www.wired.com

Unlike many of their whale brethren, the humpback doesn’t survive solely on krill, captured by opening their mouths and swimming straight ahead towards the shrimp-like crustaceans. Instead, humpbacks…

Humpback Whales Solve a Big Problem for Wind Turbines

Nuclear Waste Deep Storage Plans Approved

18.11.2015 | IEEE Spectrum | www.spectrum.ieee.org

Finland’s government issued a construction license to nuclear disposal consortium Posiva. The license gives the group approval to build a storage facility on Olkiluoto Island, Finland, designed to…

Nuclear Waste Deep Storage Plans Approved

First 'porous liquid' invented

16.11.2015 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

Researchers in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen's, along with colleagues at the University of Liverpool and other, international partners, have invented the new liquid and…

Flexible Sensors Measure Blood Flow Under the Skin

13.11.2015 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | news.illinois.edu

Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that…

Flexible Sensors Measure Blood Flow Under the Skin

Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

12.11.2015 | Vanderbilt University | news.vanderbilt.edu

If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles.