💡 The method that makes AI learn more easily
Nvidia researchers have found a way to teach an AI to recognize images that require only a fraction of the training images normally needed.
❄ The freezers in the grocery store can act as a battery in smart grids
By holding back on cooling during power peaks, coolers in stores could draw less electricity when needed elsewhere and then increase cooling again.
🚑 Artificial bone heals severe bone fractures
A new packaging of existing materials and drugs gives doctors a better opportunity to treat severe fractures.
🌉 Smart concrete provides safer and cheaper bridges
Self-healing concrete with built-in sensors can reduce repair costs and reduce the risk of more collapsing concrete structures.
🔋 The battery that can store solar energy for several months
A new material can store sunlight as potential energy for several months and then emit the energy as heat.
🚨 AI makes rescue drones better at finding lost people
An AI can determine a human presence in a thermal image with 95 percent certainty and is 70 percent better than an ordinary analysis of the image.
😌 Improved air quality has saved 60,000 lives in Europe
The amount of hazardous particles in the air has decreased by up to 56 percent in European countries in a decade.
🎅 The Christmas calendar filled with science
LTH's Christmas calendar shows a new interesting scientific experiment every day.
🛰️ Giant solar power plants in space can give us all the energy we need
Cheaper rocket launches could make it economically possible to build solar power plants in space in the future.