Energy

Occasionally, the task of car maintenance can be reminiscent of a full-time occupation. It is essential to ensure that your engine is lubricated, your washer fluid is topped up, and your spark plugs are functioning optimally. There are many more items to add to the list. And supporting all of …

Scientists at Stanford have created a new device that can perform dynamic tasks with significantly less energy than before.As machines continue to advance, they are being tasked with more and more complex and dynamic responsibilities. This includes creating powered prostheses for amputees and developing robots capable of navigating the outside …

South Korean researchers recently made progress in the field of semi-transparent perovskite solar cells, which could eventually allow windows to produce energy. The semi-transparent perovskite solar cells recently reached an efficiency exceeding 21 percent, setting a new record for this technology, according to the researchers. Moreover, more than 99% of …

Located in the subterranean depths of South Dakota’s Black Hills, there exists a bacteria with the capacity to efficiently convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into a solid mineral under very challenging circumstances. If scientists can harness these peculiar bacteria, they might provide a novel method for capturing greenhouse gases from exhausted …

Researchers at the University of Córdoba in Spain have developed a method of integrating hemoglobin, the primary constituent of red blood cells, into a battery. This innovation has resulted in the creation of a prototype that remained functional for a period of 20 to 30 days. Zinc-air batteries provide a …

Ten years ago this December, Google acquired Bot & Dolly and about a dozen other robotics companies. San Francisco-based firm known for special effects work on films like “Gravity,” was merged into a new portfolio with ambitious industry-changing plans. Things didn’t go as planned for many reasons we won’t discuss. …

Honeywell devices used in critical industries have numerous vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to cause physical disruption and possibly endanger lives. Armis, an asset security cybersecurity company, found nine vulnerabilities in Honeywell’s Experion distributed control system (DCS) products. These digital automated industrial control systems control large industrial processes in critical …

Akamai accelerated its cloud computing goals by acquiring Linode. Today, the company is moving forward. It is expanding its cloud computing services to Paris, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, and Chennai. In these new sites, Akamai will launch premium instances for commercial workloads. Akamai’s object storage service can now store one …

The Royal ransomware operation is getting a lot of attention. The U.S. government says that it targeted a number of important infrastructure sectors across the country. In a joint statement on Thursday, the FBI and the US cybersecurity agency CISA said that the Royal ransomware has affected businesses in the …

Co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko called it the start of a “new golden age of aviation” as a Universal Hydrogen-branded jet made its first test flight in eastern Washington using the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever used to power an aircraft. Even though the 15-minute test flight of the modified …