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In a new study, researchers demonstrate long-term, non-invasive monitoring of blood sodium levels using a system that combines optoacoustic detection with terahertz spectroscopy. The paper is ...
A giant slingshot might sound like something out of a science fair or a medieval battle—but one California startup is turning ...
AI is sucking up energy and tech companies are looking at ways to power it. There's been a lot of talk about nuclear, but those projects are years away and AI's thirst for energy is happening now.
New technology, which uses sound to recover 92% of platinum from hydrogen fuel cell stacks, is emerging from Johnson Matthey, a company which, interestingly, has a long-standing South African ...
How much energy a smart plug uses in standby will vary from one model to the next, but the average consumption hovers around 1 watt of power when they're not in use, which adds up to roughly 8.76 ...
A new study from MIT Technology Review has laid out just how hungry AI models are for energy. A basic chatbot reply might use as little as 114 or as much as 6,700 joules, between half a second and ...
PSE has identified stretches of high risk on Vashon Island, in Ellensburg, Concrete and Glacier and on parts of Interstate 90, Highway 2, Highway 20 and the Mount Baker Highway.
Republican lawmakers are encountering a surprising source of opposition to reforming and rationalizing U.S. energy policy: America’s Big Oil companies. Before the dust had even settled on the ...
Utilities are finding water leaks with a new tool that uses AI and sound waves, ... which requires huge pipes and tremendous energy to push it, because it’s very heavy – of filtering it and of the ...
The Sound of Music was hugely successful with its release in 1965, as it ultimately made more than $280 million at the box office and garnered five Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture).
Ambisonic rendering is a way to simulate the precise locations of sounds in 3D, and an ambisonics algorithm has allowed researchers to create rich virtual “soundscapes.” In JASA, researchers ...