The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) today announced the debut of a new Matter 1.3 specification that’s available for device makers and platforms. Matter is a smart home protocol that allows smart devices to work across multiple platforms, including HomeKit. Matter 1.3 adds support for a range of new device types and features, including water management … Read more
France 2030 is a strategic €34 billion investment by the French government aiming to kickstart economic growth in the country. As part of this initiative, the SIRCAPASS project (Surveillance of Road Infrastructures by Passive Sensors) has chosen French firm SilMach to provide ultra-cheap microsensors to monitor and ensure the structural health of bridges across the … Read more
The fate of the Universe might not be as dark and empty as cosmologists have long suspected. That’s one potential implication emerging from an innovative project that has produced some of the biggest maps ever made of the Universe. At a meeting of the American Physical Society in Sacramento, California, in early April, researchers released … Read more
With many places around the world heavily reliant on fossil-fuel production for jobs, there is a need for more global studies to assess the impact of decarbonization on affected communities.Credit: Madeleine Jettre/Alamy Thirty million new jobs. According to the International Energy Agency, that’s what the clean-energy sector will need by 2030 if the world follows … Read more
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a high-performance, hybrid sodium-ion battery that charges rapidly and offers impressive energy density. This revolutionary prototype uses sodium (Na), a chemical element over 1000 times more abundant and cheaper than lithium (Li), the main component of conventional batteries. Generally, sodium-ion batteries face … Read more
Fusion energy is the ultimate energy source for humanity16. A promising approach is a steady-state fusion reactor using magnetic confinement in the tokamak configuration17,18. With a deeper understanding of tokamak plasma physics and the development of reactor-relevant technologies, many fusion reactor designs have been proposed3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. When the ion temperature is above 13 keV (1.5 × 108 K) in D–T … Read more
Apple said Wednesday it has tripled its use of clean energy since 2020, among other benchmarks of progress toward its goal to reach carbon neutrality across its supply chain by 2030. “Clean energy and water are foundational to healthy communities and essential building blocks for a responsible business,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of … Read more
Apple is intensifying its global investment in clean energy and water sustainability, advancing towards its “Apple 2030” goal of achieving carbon neutrality across its entire value chain by the decade’s end, the company has announced. “Clean energy and water are foundational to healthy communities and essential building blocks for a responsible business,” said Lisa Jackson, … Read more
Data centers produce a lot of waste heat that could one day be recycled and used to heat millions of homes. Now, French data center company Data4 has partnered with the University of Paris-Saclay to launch a project that aims to use data center heat to grow algae, which can then be recycled into energy. … Read more
Samsung has announced that it is integrating British Gas Services in the UK into its Samsung SmartThings Energy, and this is designed to help people manage their energy usage in their homes in the UK. This initiative expands SmartThings Energy by incorporating British Gas’ PeakSave program, enabling users to enhance their home’s energy efficiency with … Read more