A wind turbine sitting idle on a calm day or spinning swiftly when power demand is already met poses a problem for renewables, and is one researchers think can be tackled under the sea. In one vision, offshore wind farms could use seawater to essentially store energy until it's needed, helping
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A bond breaker is the layer of separator substance applied in different forms between adjoining solid surfaces. It is used to ensure that there is no adhesive molecular bond between the surfaces. Bond breakers are critical components required for tilt-up construction techniques, and are cost effective and time saving for large
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Digitisation has progressed and grown from Web1, the first worldwide web built on open source technologies and open standards such as HTML/HTTP. These protocols served as the foundation for technological giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Then came the Web2 shift; the technology was primarily focused on user-generated content;
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Moving at a quarter of a mile per second in space, the James Webb Space Telescope got its golden wings Saturday in the final stage of its deployment since launch. The most powerful telescope ever built launched from French Guiana on Christmas morning, but the massive observatory had to be folded
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) and Tiktok have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will bring unmissable football content to fans, both on the continent and across the globe. It marks the brand’s first major partnership in Africa and supports the continent’s most popular sport, football. Through this year-long sponsorship, they will
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In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities used a customized printer to fully 3D print a flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The discovery could result in low-cost OLED displays in the future that could be widely produced using 3D printers by anyone at
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It is the devil’s excrement. We are drowning in the devil’s excrement – Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, Founder OPEC. Ordinarily, finding a “treasure” tends to bring joy to the one who found it. Oil discovery has become Nigeria’s developmental achilles’ heel. In popular parlance, a resource curse. Six decades after independence,
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A new course teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems, from landing a spacecraft to placing cell phone towers. As a Martian lander descends toward the Red Planet’s surface, when can its parachute be safely deployed? Open it too early, while the lander is hurtling through the
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BMW has unveiled a ‘colour-changing’ car at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas that uses a body made of e-ink. Called the BMW iX Flow, the prototype vehicle allows drivers to adapt the exterior colour of the vehicle to different situations. The colour changes are made possible by a specially
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The first few months of new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s tenure have validated fears his leadership would reduce free expression on the site, critics told The Post. Numerous high-profile accounts have been banned — including a sitting member of Congress and a virologist who helped invent mRNA vaccine technology. “It does appear
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