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High-efficiency multi-scale holographic volumetric 3 D printing with a phase light modulator - Light: Science & Applications
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (1637+ words) Figure 1c shows a comparison of the pattern light efficiency among two amplitude and phase-encoded projections on a DMD (Table 1. left and center columns) and phase-encoded projections using a PLM (Table 1. Right column). We construct our setup (see details in Supplementary…...
i OS 26. 5 Users Report Battery Drain Issues: Should You Be Worried?
39+ min ago (374+ words) Mashable India i OS 26. 5 Users Report Battery Drain Issues: Should You Be Worried? Apple's software updates often bring new features and improvements, but they also tend to trigger user complaints about battery performance shortly after release. The recently launched i…...
Making green hydrogen more affordable
46+ min ago (259+ words) Empa researcher Konstantin Egorov coats stainless steel components with corrosion-resistant titanium oxide to make the production of green hydrogen more cost-effective. Hydrogen can partially replace fossil fuels, which makes it a cornerstone of the energy transition. The idea is simple:…...
Beyond the subak: the story of the award-winning Paving Puzzle - Quick Dispatch
4+ hour, 18+ min ago (216+ words) tudents from Universitas Warmadewa, Bali, have highlighted the hidden potential of subak, the traditional Balinese irrigation system that has been recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage. Through observation and field studies, Warmadewa Muda delegates saw great potential in the…...
While Brazil is still discussing how to store solar and wind energy, Portugal has set up three dams in the mountains to function as a giga battery of 1. 15 GW and store renewable energy on a large scale.
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (941+ words) The T'mega Portugal giga battery has become a powerful example of how water and mountains can be used to store renewable energy on a large scale. The complex brings together three dams and hydroelectric plants in the north of the…...
Skuld's Scrap-to-Wrought Aluminium Casting Patent Explained
5+ hour, 14+ min ago (356+ words) BY MUFLIH HIDAYAT ON MAY 19, 2026 The practical consequence of this contamination cascade is that most post-consumer and post-industrial wrought aluminium scrap, which originated as sheet, extrusion, or forging, ends up being reprocessed into casting alloys rather than wrought-equivalent products. The…...
Goodbye Plastic? Scientists Create New Supermaterial That Could Transform Modern Manufacturing
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (306+ words) What if the next generation of high-performance materials did not come from a factory filled with petroleum-based plastics, but from living bacteria? Bacterial cellulose fibers normally grow in random patterns, which limits their strength and performance. Using controlled fluid dynamics…...
Effect of biological and agricultural foaming agents on concrete waste for the preparation of porous ceramic materials - Scientific Reports
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (1742+ words) The ceramic slurry was prepared following the formulation detailed in Table2. Each pore-forming agent was added at 30 wt% relative to the starch content. Before incorporation, the required quantity of each pore-forming agent was completely dissolved in distilled water using a 1: 1 solution…...
Local-nonlocal assisted multifunctional photonic crystals | Light: Science & Applications
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (567+ words) The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request. Zhen, B. et al. Spawning rings of exceptional points out of Dirac cones. Nature 525, 354358 (2015). Liu, W. Z. et al. Circularly polarized states spawning from bound…...
Scientists Discover Way To Leverage High-Energy Sunlight for Fuel Production
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (218+ words) Plants and algae make their fuel from sunlight. Perhaps we could do the same using semiconductors. A team of scientists at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) made strides in that direction. They discovered a silicon semiconductor coupled to…...