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To achieve carbon neutrality, advancements in energy conversion and storage technologies are essential. Current aqueous energy devices suffer from performance limitations due to the trade-off between permeability and selectivity in permselective membranes. This trade-off hampers the efficiency of energy conversion and storage systems, necessitating the development of membranes that can balance these properties effectively. Due to these challenges, further research is required to explore innovative membrane structures that can enhance the performance of energy conversion and storage devices.

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer—on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.

Designing the spatial arrangement of underground powerhouses involves numerous complex parameters and boundaries, requiring frequent reference to various cases and specifications. Traditional methods struggle to efficiently retrieve this information, leading to suboptimal designs and extended project timelines. Due to these challenges, there is a pressing need for a more intelligent and efficient approach to streamline the design process, enhance accuracy, and improve project management in hydropower engineering.

More than 500 workers behind the popular video game franchisee "World of Warcraft" are unionizing.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are celebrated for their exceptional photovoltaic performance and affordability. However, the high cost of charge transport materials remains a major obstacle to their commercialization. Conventional materials like 2,2',7,7'-Tetrakis[N,N-di(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]-9,9'-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD), are expensive and complex to produce.

If you use Google—and chances are you do—then you're used to seeing ads when searching online. But how do those ads get on Google search and, more importantly, who is paying for them? It's easy to assume Nike pays for the Nike ads, but that's not always the case.

American Airlines lowered its 2024 outlook Thursday on lingering effects of a botched booking system upgrade, but shares rallied as it touted a speedy recovery to last week's IT outage that plagued rivals.

Hollywood's video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections.

To transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewables—which are intermittent by nature—we'll need to rework our entire system of power storage, transmission and distribution. Yet experts haven't yet found the right energy mix or power storage system, or how to balance supply and demand effectively.

QUT researchers have found that pedestrians' crossing decisions involving automated vehicles (AVs) are most influenced by nearby pedestrians.

The world is saturated by services and products provided by companies that have a "secret grip" on the way we live. In 1951, the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy described a typical day "of the average guy" from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. The point being that the average guy's life was saturated with designed products.

A new type of valve that makes soft robots more resilient to damage, has been developed by engineers at the University of Sheffield.

A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the solution bubbles up and naturally produces hydrogen—a gas that can be subsequently used to power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon emissions. What's more, this simple reaction can be sped up by adding a common stimulant: caffeine.

The package will apparently feature more than 1,200 pieces.

You can finally play PC VR games on the PSVR 2 headset.

Concord has a terrific art direction, and this DualSense controller proves it.

Currently in Steam Early Access, Core Keeper will arrive on consoles in August.

Friday's global IT outage—caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike—wrought havoc on business operations around the world.

Chemists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have synthesized materials that can improve solar elements for indoor use. Such photovoltaic cells, which can also be integrated into various electronic devices, generate electricity even in low-light conditions.

A new method to measure the continuous spectrum of light, developed in the lab of University of Houston professor of electrical and computer engineering Jiming Bao, is set to improve thermal imaging and infrared thermography, techniques used to measure and visualize temperature distributions without direct contact with the subject being photographed.