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Credit: Heinz et al., 2021 Widespread adoption of hydrogen-powered vehicles over traditional electric vehicles requires fuel cells that can convert hydrogen and oxygen safely into water - a serious implementation problem.…

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University and Northeastern University Batteries have come a long way since Volta first stacked copper and zinc discs together 200 years ago. While the technology has continued to evolve from lead-acid to…

Doctoral student who launched space rockets earns prestigious fellowshipCredit: UT Arlington Kelly Patterson, a doctoral student in the Civil Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has earned a National Science…

A new robot - named WomBot - that can be used to explore and study wombat burrows is presented in a study published in the journal SN Applied Sciences. Wombats reside and sleep in burrows and occupy a different burrow every four to ten…

Chemists studied an elusive material property, called a valence gradient effect, confirming its ability to stabilize high-nickel-content cathodes for next-generation electric vehicle batteriesCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory …

Climate change has worsened each year, but across the globe there are promising signs of real decarbonization, according to UC San Diego researchersCredit: UC San Diego At the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November,…

'Jack-of-all-trades' improves future spacefaring calculationsCredit: Photo by Lonnie Anderson, courtesy Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Humberto "Tito" Silva III, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been…

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The U.S. Army plans to cooperate in artificial intelligence research with teams led by the University of Maryland, College Park and in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The cooperative…

Credit: U.S. Army Photo ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - A new formula from Army scientists is leading to new insights on how to build an energy-efficient legged teammate for dismounted warfighters. In a recent peer-reviewed PLOS One…

Expectation for transportation of biological medical products and vibration sensitive productsCredit: Tamagawa Seiki Co. Ltd., Tamagawa Seiki Co. Ltd., developed a non-shaking system for transportation sector with support of the Japan…

A UTA first: Subbarao named American Astronautical Society fellowCredit: UT Arlington Kamesh Subbarao, a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, is the…

Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech Nobody likes driving in a blizzard, including autonomous vehicles. To make self-driving cars safer on snowy roads, engineers look at the problem from the car's point of view. A major…

Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Realizing the potential of self-driving cars hinges on technology that can quickly sense and react to obstacles and other vehicles in real time. Engineers from The University of Texas…

New edition of a popular textbook addresses guidance, navigation and control of marine craft.Credit: Screenshot: Marinetraffic.com Nearly everything in our daily lives -- from the electronic gizmos we all use, to the coffee we…

SMART researchers found that e-scooters are not only a last-mile solution to complement transit services, but also provide a mobility service for short-distance transit tripsCredit: SMART FM E-scooters as a new micro-mobility…

A global effort to reduce sulfur and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships has researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and other Department of Energy facilities investigating the potential use of marine…

A University of Surrey project has revealed innovative methods that could dramatically improve the performance of future electrical vehicles (e-vehicles). As part of the European Union's STEVE* project, Surrey has developed several…

Optimistic predictions expect reliable autonomous vehicles to be commercially available by 2030, at a time when mobility is undergoing a profound shift away from traditional modes of transportation and towards door-to-door services.…

Credit: POSTECH The nanophotonics-based LiDAR technology developed by a POSTECH research team was presented as an invited paper in Nature Nanotechnology, the leading academic journal in the field of nanoscience and…

Study tests viability of 100-year old patented device by inventorCredit: NYU's Applied Mathematics Laboratory A valve invented by engineer Nikola Tesla a century ago is not only more functional than previously realized, but also…