The technique may have a far-reaching implication for many scientific and industrial applications and disciplines that involve particulate matter.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191017162209.htm
A recent study finds that people are likely to blame robots for workplace accidents, but only if they believe the robots are autonomous.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191017125244.htm
Imagine being able to build and use a robotic device without the need for expensive, specialist kit or skills. That is the vision that researchers have now turned into reality, creating a lightweight, affordable and simple solution for everyday users.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191020084936.htm
(Lehigh University) Two Department of Energy grants support the work of Eugenio Schuster, an expert in nuclear fusion plasma control and a professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University. The grants fund experiments Schuster is doing at tokamaks in San Diego, China, and South Korea. Solutions derived from those experiments will be extrapolated to the ITER tokamak being built in France, the first nuclear reactor based on fusion.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/lu-lun112519.php
(Pensoft Publishers) To regain public confidence in nuclear power — a sustainable source of renewable energy, as well as bridging the gap between what we know today and what is going on in practice, scientists propose a new safety barrier to be implemented in large reactors around the world. The new barrier, described in the open-access journal Nuclear Energy and Technology, could reduce the probability of core melt to that of a large meteorite hitting the site.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/pp-nrw112519.php
(Purdue University) Alconbury Weston Limited, a science-engineering company based in the United Kingdom, has licensed carbon fiber technology from Purdue Research Foundation to support industries ranging from research institutes to commercial manufacturers.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/pu-use112519.php
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191021111826.htm
Physicists predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see a rising vapor plume as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed into the far side of Jupiter in 1994. And sure enough, the plume produced by the impact matched their computational analysis.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191021082757.htm
Physicists have demonstrated the first next-generation ‘time scale’ — a system that incorporates data from multiple atomic clocks to produce a single highly accurate timekeeping signal for distribution. The new time scale outperforms the best existing hubs for disseminating official time worldwide and offers the possibility of providing more accurate time to millions of customers such as financial markets and computer and phone networks.
Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191021124513.htm
(University of Waterloo) Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to establishing universal standards for measuring the performance of quantum computers.The new method, called cycle benchmarking, allows researchers to assess the potential of scalability and to compare one quantum platform against another.
Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/uow-rr112519.php