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Fully adopting these technologies could lower projected U.S. energy use 17 percent to 20 percent by 2020 Energy efficiency technologies that exist today or that are likely to be developed in the near future could save considerable money as well as energy, says a new report from the National Research Council. Fully adopting these technologies

Over the years, New Jersey orthopedic surgeon Lee Berger became frustrated with the lack of information that patients had on prosthetic devices that had been implanted within their own knees, hips, feet, or other parts of their skeleton. In order to gather data such as the size, model, age, serial numbers or manufacturers of these

Soon we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully produced microorganisms that can efficiently produce the alcohol butanol using carbon dioxide and solar energy, without needing to use solar cells. This has been presented in a new

Is it a computer program or a living being? At TU Wien (Vienna), the boundaries become blurred. The neural system of a nematode was translated into computer code – and then the virtual worm was taught amazing tricks. It is not much to look at: the nematode C. elegans is about one millimetre in length

The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday offered a prescription for protecting consumer data collected by Internet-connected gadgets like wearable fitness trackers and “smart home” devices, previewing themes of a coming report by the agency on Internet privacy and security. “In the not-too-distant future, many, if not most, aspects of our everyday lives

A Qatari engineer has come up with a device that could prove to be a boon to the arid regions of the world by producing water from humidity in the air. The advantages of “Agri Green”, which is described as a high-tech environment-friendly machine to improve water generation in the arid regions, in particular in

A lithium-ion battery that self heats if the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit has multiple applications, but may have the most impact on relieving winter “range anxiety” for electric vehicle owners, according to a team of researchers from Penn State and EC Power, State College. “It is a long standing problem that batteries do

New methods to make longer streams of plasma with greater longevity could lead to laser-powered lightning rods Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod 250 years ago to protect people and buildings from lightning strikes. Someday, those metal poles may be replaced with lasers. A team of researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, have

Results from the feasibility study suggest that a machine-learning model could reduce the number of those living with undiagnosed dementia Improving dementia care through increased and timely diagnosis is an NHS priority, yet around half of those living with dementia live with the condition unaware. Now a new machine-learning model that scans routinely collected NHS