Scientists have found a way to engineer tiny robots which can zoom about and clean up contaminated water sources…

Henry J. Charrabé, CEO of Fluence Corporation sets out his strategy to go after China’s rural wastewater market…

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A study of lead service lines in Flint’s damaged drinking water system reveals a Swiss cheese pattern in the pipes’ interior crust, with holes where the lead used to be.

Avionics V1 is an e-bike, soon to be released from a firm in Poland. Its 5kW brushless electric motor really puts it well above mopeds for power (6.7bhp, 125Nm, max speed 58km/h), however there are 230, 500 and 750W ‘street’ modes – where range is up to 120km. Power comes from a 24Ah battery (no …

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The US Navy’s electromagnetic rail-gun is out of the laboratory and ready for field demonstrations at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Virginia. Rail guns, which until now have been research tools, are a form of linear motor which accelerate objects to very high velocity using a combination of magnetic and electric fields. Testing is …

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Farnell element14 has named Bristol Robotics Laboratory as winner of its ‘Win a Lab Makeover’ competition. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is an academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK and builds on a collaborative partnership between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the University of Bristol, and is …

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Scientists discover surprising behaviour amongst electrons in high-temperature superconductors (HTS).

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Osaka University has created front and back coatings to improve the efficiency of silicon solar cells, without resort to expensive vacuum treatment. The front coating is anti-reflective – a component of almost all solar cells – and created using a wet process based on ‘surface structure chemical transfer’ (SSCT), using it to fabricate so-called ‘black …

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US researchers have collated the temperature performance of different Li-ion cell technologies with a view to improving batteries. “People have not looked that studiously at temperature constraints. We searched hard to find one paper that talks about all the problems at the same time and what all the individual components experience at extreme temperatures, and …

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