14 members of the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) are partnering with Electric Applications to address lead battery technology. The new agreement was signed with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. The […]
Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, has entered into a 30-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with ENGIE EPS, a microgrid and energy storage specialist based in France. The system, called ‘Armonia’, will […]
Researchers led by Professor Kim Hee-Tak at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea have developed a lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery with a a doughnut-shaped active material structure that remains functional […]
‘Deep Forest’, a project backed by environmental group Fundecor, Intel and Aerial Robotixs, aims to give scientists in Costa Rica a better idea of what is happening in the country’s forest canopy, and allow more […]
Researchers from Colorado University (CU) Boulder, CU Denver and Scientific Systems Company (SSCI), Inc. are partnering to design drones that can explore underground environments. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding the […]
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) recently announced its new initiative, Cyber NYC, designed to grow the cyber-security sector. It will leverage a group of partners to launch a Global Cyber Center, an […]
A cross-disciplinary research team led by Subhanshu Gupta, assistant professor in Washington State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has designed an implantable, biofuel-powered sensor that runs on glucose harvested from body fluids […]
The University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science now features a new virtual reality (VR) training lab funded through an $800,000 CAN investment by FYidoctors. The lab simulates a patient’s eye and provides […]
Singapore recently unveiled a new simulation center (SIMCEN) for its littoral mission vessels (LMVs) at Tuas Naval Base. The new LMV simulation center, jointly developed by the Singapore Navy and the Defense Science Technology Agency […]
A recent paper published in the journal, Chem, highlights the successful combination of a solar cell and a battery to form a solar flow battery (SFB), designed to act as both a solar cell and […]
Indonesia’s geophysics agency (BMKG) is facing criticism for lifting a tsunami warning 34 minutes after it was first issued following a major earthquake. The 7.5 magnitude quake and tsunami hit the hit the city of […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has partnered with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct a 30-day test of the use of facial recognition technology to screen international travelers at Los Angeles […]
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