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Total lunar eclipse – Australia – 26 May 2021

Posted by Admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Nature |

Total Lunar Eclipse, Brisbane, Australia, May 26, 2021. Photo: Jachin...

Are We In For A Cold Snap? The Modern Grand Solar Minimum

Posted by Jachin Dahlitz | Apr 17, 2021 | Nature |

According to a paper by Valentina Zharkova, an acurate method of tracking solar activity suggests...

Using cutting-edge technologies to explore the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef

Posted by Elizabeth Neil | Oct 14, 2020 | Nature |

Using cutting-edge technologies to explore the remote canyons, platform reefs and seamounts of the...

Researchers create a contagion model to predict flooding in urban areas

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 26, 2020 | Environment |

Inspired by the same modeling and mathematical laws used to predict the spread of pandemics,...

Robotic research to help our agricultural industry grow!

Posted by Admin | Aug 26, 2020 | Agritech, Environment |

A new crop monitoring and automation robot is currently being developed that will help farmers...

New Solar Technology Set To Revolutionize The Industry

Posted by Matthew Dahlitz | Aug 5, 2020 | Power, Video |

Queensland based company CQSola is on the cusp of commercializing a revolutionary technology that...

Deep Dive Interview with CQSola

Posted by Matthew Dahlitz | Aug 5, 2020 | Power |

Queensland based company CQSola is on the cusp of commercializing a revolutionary technology that...

CropHopper Crop Health Mapping

Posted by Jachin Dahlitz | Jun 18, 2020 | Agritech |

With limited time frames and resources, farming isn’t exactly a walk in the park, especially given...

Insect wings that kill bacteria on contact

Posted by Admin | Jun 11, 2020 | Nature |

Some insect wings such as cicada and dragonfly possess nanopillar structures that kill bacteria...

GMO moths are being released to destroy their population

Posted by Admin | Feb 2, 2020 | Nature |

The solution to this costly pest problem is to – according to findings published in...

Canadian laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 31, 2018 | Nature |

For the first time, physicists at CERN have observed a benchmark atomic energy transition in antihydrogen, a major step toward cooling and manipulating the basic form of antimatter.

URI engineer: Origami-inspired device enables easy capture, release of delicate underwater organisms

Posted by Age of Robots | Jul 30, 2018 | Environment |

A new device developed by a University of Rhode Island engineer and researchers at Harvard University safely traps delicate sea creatures inside a folding polyhedral enclosure and lets them go without harm using a novel, origami-inspired design.

AI technology could help protect water supplies

Posted by Age of Robots | Jul 28, 2018 | Environment |

Progress on new artificial intelligence (AI) technology could make monitoring at water treatment plants cheaper and easier and help safeguard public health.

KOMPAS

Posted by Age of Robots | May 28, 2018 | Environment |

The field of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning (M.L.) in particular, has developed significantly over the last five years, partially due to advances in hardware and processing power, from companies such as Nvidia, IBM, Microsoft and Google.

Pulling valuable metals from e-waste makes financial sense

Posted by Age of Robots | Apr 15, 2018 | Environment, Society |

Electronic waste — including discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones — is one of the fastest-growing waste categories worldwide.

Researchers make progress in obtaining energy from marine currents

Posted by Age of Robots | Apr 3, 2018 | Environment |

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have developed procedures and designs to obtain energy from marine currents in areas of great depths optimizing the costs

Silver nanoparticles in clothing wash out – and may threaten human health and the environment

Posted by Age of Robots | Apr 1, 2018 | Environment, Nanotechnology |

Humans have known since ancient times that silver kills or stops the growth of many microorganisms.

Low-Tech, Affordable Solutions to Improve Water Quality

Posted by Age of Robots | Mar 29, 2018 | Environment |

The PVC piping system developed by Brian Barkdoll, left, and Mohammad Alizadeh Fard, offers a low-tech, affordable internal piping method for drinking water supply managers to circulate water within large municipal water supply tanks to prevent against waterborne illness following large drawdowns of the tanks. Adding colorants to the water demonstrates how the sprinkler system effectively circulates the water within the experimental tank.