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C&K Acquisition Creates New Military/Aero Division

07/28/2021

C&K has entered into an agreement to acquire E.I.S. Electronics, industry specialists in the design and manufacture of Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS) for avionics, defense and aerospace applications.  In conjunction with this transaction, C&K announced

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University of Sheffield Wins Formula Student Competition

07/28/2021

A team of engineering students from University of Sheffield won the Formula Student 2021 racing car competition, beating off fierce competition from over 30 teams at event held at Silverstone Race Circuit at the weekend. The competition, which is organised by the Institution of Mechanical

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Spin-sonics: Acoustic Wave gets the Electrons Spinning

07/28/2021

Researchers have detected the rolling movement of a nano-acoustic wave predicted by the famous physicist and Nobel prize winner Lord Rayleigh in 1885. This phenomenon can find applications in acoustic quantum technologies or in so-called “phononic” components, which are used to control the

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US and German Collaboration to Produce Efficient Green Hydrogen

07/27/2021

Through a new award program, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) have joined forces to award the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and 

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Meeting Climate Targets to Lead to 8 Million More Energy Jobs by 2050

07/27/2021

Researchers created a global dataset of job footprints in 50 countries and used a model to investigate how trying to meet the Paris Agreement global climate target of staying well below 2°C would affect energy sector jobs. They found that action to reach said target would increase net jobs by

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Training the Next Generation of 'Cybercops'

07/27/2021

Not so long ago, a strong password felt mighty enough to keep you safe and your computer data private. But we now live amid heightened risks in malware, phishing, spearphishing and denial-of-service attacks. Even scarier, it is possible for computer terrorists to wreak global havoc by commandeering

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Tweezers of Sound can Pick Objects up Without Physical Contact

07/27/2021

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new technology which allows non-contact manipulation of small objects using sound waves. They used a hemispherical array of ultrasound transducers to generate a 3D acoustic fields which stably trapped and lifted a small polystyrene

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IIoT Connectivity Solution for Floating Solar Plants

07/23/2021

Over the past few years, countries that lack the land mass required for solar plants are turning their attention to the water-based alternative, floating solar islands. By placing solar panels on floating platforms in water bodies, valuable land is freed. As the cooling properties of water allow

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Machine Learning Helps Photovoltaics Find its Place in the Sun

07/21/2021

With the looming threat of climate change, it is high time we embrace renewable

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General Electric Agrees to Net-Zero-by-2050 Target

07/15/2021

After a 98% shareholder vote on an As You Sow resolution on

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