Here is the curated list of all news that is creating buzz for engineers right now.
1) A Battery Pack That Lasts Longer.
An electrical engineer at The University of Toledo faced a near-death experience as a girl when she was in Africa because a hospital ran out of power and it is safe to say that she took it personally and has now found a relatively cheaper solution to the problem by developing an energy storage to make battery packs in electric vehicles, satellites, planes and grid stations last much longer.
This new technology is called the bilevel equalizer and is the first of its kind because it combines the high performance of an active equalizer with the low cost of the passive equalizer. As claimed by Dr. Ngalula Mubenga, who is the assistant professor of electrical engineering technology at the university, this new technology is a game changer. Experiments went on to show that because of the bilevel equalizer, the lithium-ion batteries showed an increase in their discharge capacity by 30% and the pack lasted relatively long because it resulted in reaching a state of balance.
NASA’s Juno Mission resulted in a lot of data about Jupiter being gathered which has the potential to improve our understanding of the planet in terms of its interior, core mass and its origin. It was found that the atmospheric winds of the planet run deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter and these last relatively longer as compared to similar process on planet Earth.
Massive cyclones surround the North and South pole of Jupiter and they have atmospheric features that are extremely unique because nothing similar to their nature has been encountered in the Solar System.
We have seen artificial intelligence around us but recently, the reach of the same has expanded to the waters! Scientists claim that they have built an ocean predator that is high on artificial intelligence and behaves a lot like the organism after which it was modeled - the sea slug Pleurobranchaea California. This creature high on AI is called the “Cyberslug” and a few of its features include reacting to information on the basis of how it made the creature feel. When it encounters other creatures, there are three responses that this creature is likely to encounter, namely - "Do I eat it? Do I mate with it? Or do I flee?". It reacts and responds to food and responds to members of its own kind, too. The creature has an understanding of its own processes and knows when it is hungry. It also has developed an understanding of the kind of taste in terms of food that appeals to it (other slugs) and the kind that doesn’t and hence, stays away from the same.
COP21, the 21st annual Conference of Parties to review the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in 2015, witnessed the launch of the idea to collect atmospheric carbon through crops, to lock it in the soil's organic matter in order to offset fossil fuel emissions.
This option was considered as a breakthrough but it was recently found in data obtained from long-term experiments that date back to the mid-19th century, that it is not practically plausible to halt climate change by burying carbon in the ground. According to scientists, it is unrealistic to achieve the desired rate of soil carbon sequestration. The carbon does not get locked within the soil indefinitely. There comes a point where a new equilibrium is achieved and then ceases.
After continuous peeling away of layers of the skin microbiome, its protective properties have been revealed. Researchers now report that skin bacteria has the potential new role in protecting the skin against cancer in a study published in Science Advances on February 28, University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
Richard Gallo, MD, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UC San Diego School of Medicine claims that a strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis, which is commonly present on the healthy human skin, has been identified and it inhibits the growth of some cancers. It produces a chemical that kills cancer cells of various types and at the same time, is not toxic to the other normal cells present in the skin.
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