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Scalable CIPURSE based electronic fare collection systems are now being implemented in Russia by Infineon Technologies and Udobny Marshrut (UM). UM has started to roll-out the technology in Izhevsk and Angarsk and seven other metropolitan regions are planned to follow by the end of 2016.

A breakthrough in solar power could make it cheaper and more commercially viable, thanks to research at the University of Warwick.In a paper published inNature Energy, Dr Ross Hatton, Professor Richard Walton and colleagues, explain how solar cells could be produced with tin, making them more adaptable and simpler to produce than their current counterparts.Lead perovskites are rapidly emerging as an efficient way to convert sunlight directly into...

Technological advances have already made driving safer with features like forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking. Looking ahead, perhaps by the end of the decade, new connected vehicle technology may allow millions of cars, trucks, buses and trains to talk wirelessly to each other, the roadway, traffic lights and nearby buildings, to address hazards drivers can’t even see and ultimately help avoid many crashes altogether....

Molex is proud to announce that its Polymicro Technologies optical fibre is being used to build NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2). The satellite, slated for launch in 2017 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, will measure changes in Earth features, from melting ice sheets and thinning sea ice to growing trees.The specialty optical fibre from Molex will be used on board ICESat-2 and in Ground Support Equipm...

After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA’s Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill destinations as part of its two-year mission extension that commenced October 1st.

Automotive aluminium may have met its match in the form of the new KBDM face milling platform from Kennametal.Replacing a head gasket on an internal combustion engine is a smooth, flat surface on both the cylinder head and block which is needed for proper operation.No one understands this better than automakers, who strive for predictable, controlled surface finishes and high production output, together with maximum tool life and the lowest tooli...

Researchers are to present the world’s best exoskeletons– devices that enable paraplegics to walk again at the first Cybathlon in Zürich.Motors from Switzerland play a central part in this development.Taking place 8th October, and with motors from Switzerland playing a central part in this development, people with paraplegia are going on a footrace at the Cybathlon in Zürich.

Research projects statewide, from electronics to optics and medicine, are set to benefit from a new system coming to UW–Madison that will use electron beam lithography (EBL), a specialised technique for creating extremely fine patterns — in some cases more than 5,000 times narrower than the diameter of a human hair.

At NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, a group of students successfully flew a prototype of an aircraft that could one day fly in the Martian atmosphere and send its findings back to Earth. Called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-M, the small, remotely piloted glider aircraft flew 11th August at Armstrong.

With so much talk in the news about the autonomous vehicles that will soon be taking over the streets we drive on, let’s take a look at how autonomous vehicles have overwhelmed our Earth’s oceans too. Nicolette Emmino explains.