Passport – A Smart City Parking Platform
In the opening scene of the original Blade Runner from 1982, we’re introduced to a dystopian Los Angeles skyline filled with massive oil refineries perpetually…
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Smart water heating could help in South Africa’s energy crisis
MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Stellenbosch University South Africa’s energy crisis has many dimensions, from political and economic to technical and environmental. Recently, the country’s power utility,…
How AI and robots will help safeguard our offshore energy infrastructure in the future
The modern world depends on the smooth provision of vital services such as energy, transportation, telecommunications, food, water and healthcare. But the systems underpinning these…
Frankenstein: the real experiments that inspired the fictional science
Giovanni Aldini’s experiments with a human corpse. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA Iwan Morus, Aberystwyth University On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster…
Here are 6 big ideas to help the environment
Sometimes the news about our environment can feel a little monotonous. We read the same old headlines about how important the environment is, how the…