Bilfinger Salamis has partnered with Amphibious Energy to provide renewable energy generator units capable of saving 50 metric tons of CO2e per year for offshore oil and gas operators. Bilfinger Salamis has agreed to exclusive rights in the UK and select European countries to install, commission, maintain, decommission, and remove the
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PhD student Madhumitha Ravichandran identifies the three main factors that trigger the boiling crisis through machine learning models. It’s rare for a pre-teen to become enamored with thermodynamics, but those consumed by such a passion may consider themselves lucky to end up at a place like MIT. Madhumitha Ravichandran certainly does.
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Learn Python. That's the biggest takeaway we can give you from its continued dominance of IEEE Spectrum's annual interactive rankings of the top programming languages. You don't have to become a dyed-in-the-wool Pythonista, but learning the language well enough to use one of the vast number of libraries written for
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Maryland-based IonQ has unveiled a new kind of chip in its quest to scale up its type of quantum computer technology. Its computers calculate using the quantum states of ions electromagnetically trapped in the space near a chip. Previous traps were made using silicon chipmaking processes, but the company has
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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts David Nahamoo says machines will grok us When David Nahamoo was a high school student in Iran, he wanted to pursue a career in mathematics or physics. But after talking over career options with his friends, he says, he was "pointed
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MIT researchers find a new way to quantify the uncertainty in molecular energies predicted by neural networks Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly being used to predict new materials, the rate and yield of chemical reactions, and drug-target interactions, among others. For these applications, they are orders of magnitude faster than traditional
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In the face of grave concerns about misinformation, social media networks and news organizations often employ fact-checkers to sort the real from the false. But fact-checkers can only assess a small portion of the stories floating around online. A new study by MIT researchers suggests an alternate approach: Crowdsourced accuracy judgements
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A wood-based ‘nanogenerator’ has been developed that can generate energy from footfalls on wooden flooring. Swiss researchers used a combination of a silicone coating and embedded nanocrystals to create a device that could power LED lightbulbs and small electronics. The team began by transforming wood into a nanogenerator by sandwiching two pieces
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In their ongoing effort to make carbon capture more affordable, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a method to convert captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane, the primary component of natural gas. By streamlining a longstanding process in which CO2 is converted to methane, the
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Researchers in Brazil may just have discovered the stepping stone to finding the oddest treatment for Covid-19 after venom from a snake species was able to fight the virus effectively. A molecule present in the venom of jararacussu pit viper was able to prevent coronavirus' ability to multiply and intensify in
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