Wood is the primary source of raw material for paper production—whether as fresh fiber or recycled material. The silphium plant, a perennial energy crop, is now also being used as an alternative fiber ...
The ocean is Earth's largest carbon sink, absorbing about 25% of the CO₂ released by human activities. However, this uptake contributes to ocean acidification and risks destabilizing marine ecosystems ...
Identifying cracks is critical for the monitoring of civil infrastructure. To enhance inspection efficiency, a proposed autonomous crack segmentation and exploration system enables the agent to ...
India's leading body of pilots has asked the civil aviation regulator to inspect all Boeing 787 Dreamliners operating in the country for electrical issues after one of the planes abruptly deployed an ...
Solar energy is now so cost-effective that, in the sunniest countries, it costs as little as £0.02 to produce one unit of power, making it cheaper than electricity generated from coal, gas or wind, ...
As the use of wearable devices such as augmented reality (AR) glasses has slowly but steadily increased, so too has the ...
By and large, it appears school and work assignments are not being outsourced entirely to ChatGPT. A new working paper by ...
Flying manipulator robots have shown themselves to be useful in many applications, such as industrial maintenance or construction. Their utility in hard to reach or hazardous locations makes them ...
Imagine a fleet of submarines sitting idle on a military base in the Pacific because they contain malfunctioning or aging ...
"It is the closest all of us passengers ever want to come to a plane crash," a Qantas flight QF1889's passenger said after the plane suddenly descended about 20,000 feet on Monday September 22, and ...
Around 4.4 billion people worldwide still lack reliable access to safe drinking water. Newly designed, thin floating films that harness sunlight to eliminate over 99.99% of bacteria could help change ...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has spent the past week in Virginia federal court seeking to persuade a judge that selling off its ...