Tracy Staedter
IEEE Spectrum
Boston, MA, United States
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3D-Printed Semiconductor Cube Could Convert Waste Heat to Electricity
Here's how these cubeoids could harness waste heat from steel plants → Read More
AI SpaceFactory Wins NASA's 3D-Printed Extraterrestrial Habitats Challenge
AI SpaceFactory bests Penn State in a one-of-a-kind competition to see whose innovative building techniques could someday allow humans to live on Mars or the moon → Read More
Connect Your Home, Car, Phone for Streamlined Productivity
Here’s how to connect all your smart devices, plus some tips to maintain a balance between staying connected and unplugging when you need a break from the digital world. → Read More
Connect Your Home, Car, Phone for Streamlined Productivity
Here’s how to connect all your smart devices, plus some tips to maintain a balance between staying connected and unplugging when you need a break from the digital world. → Read More
A Cooler Cloud: A Clever Conduit Cuts Data Centers’ Cooling Needs by 90 Percent
The company that created it, Forced Physics, plans to install the technology in a pilot plant in February → Read More
MIT Spin-off Faces Daunting Challenges on Path to Build a Fusion Power Plant in 15 Years
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has pledged to build a commercial fusion reactor based on new superconducting magnets → Read More
Soaring ‘SuperTowers’ Aim to Bring Mobile Broadband to Rural Areas
One tethered, autonomous aerostat flying at 250 meters can provide as much coverage as 20 or 30 cell towers → Read More
Making Paper From Poop Offers a Solution to the World’s Manure Problem
Researchers have developed a method for producing paper from a variety of animal manures, offering a possible solution to an acute enviro... → Read More
Just Like Bats, Humans Are Able to Echolocate
A study of eight blind individuals found they were highly successful in identifying the presence of an object in a room using clicks with... → Read More
Prized Forests Lost Big at This Year’s Olympics
Forests are perpetual losers at the Olympics, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. → Read More
Why Russia is Building Its Own Internet
The Kremlin has a bold plan to protect itself from “possible external influence” → Read More
Why Russia Is Building Its Own Internet
The Kremlin has a bold plan to protect itself from “possible external influence” → Read More
100,000 IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China
Sensors installed along China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project track water quality, watch for intruders, and detect structural damage → Read More
New Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries Shows How to Pack in More Energy
For the first time, scientists have studied the atomic structure of lithium-rich cathodes while they're charging → Read More
Modular Power Blocks Snap Together to Scale Up Energy Needs in Remote Areas
A microgrid solution that uses swarm intelligence algorithm could finally electrify rural Africa. → Read More
Thousands of Idled, Dirty Railroad Cars Are Littering the American Landscape
On an overcast day at the end of October, about 25 tanker railcars rolled through the small town of North Creek, New York, north of Saratoga Springs. They were heading for Minerva in Essex county to join a couple of dozen other railcars parked earlier in the month on a 30-mile stretch of track that cuts through the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Their growing presence in the park, where the branch… → Read More
Report Scores Cities to See if Technology Makes Them Safer
Singapore and London have rolled out CCTVs, police body cameras, and new apps to assist law enforcement → Read More
There's a Huge Drinking Water Problem Plaguing Rural America, Too
It’s not just urban residents in the U.S. who have issues with their tap water. More than 6 million people living in rural and farming communities have water contamination problems, too. A new report and two interactive maps reveal that more than 3,300 rural water utilities contain questionable and sometimes downright illegal levels of harmful chemicals—nearly half of them in counties where none… → Read More
Music Was Just Encoded on DNA and Retrieved for the First Time
“Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple and “Tutu” by Miles Davis are the first DNA-saved files to be added to UNESCO’s Memory of t... → Read More
Solar Developers are Transforming Vast Energy Farms Into Pollinator Habitats
The wildflowers tickling the underside of solar panels on a site in Ramsey, Minnesota, are not just for decoration. They represent a new trend in photovoltaics: seeding industrial-sized solar power installations with native, pollinator-friendly plants, instead of using gravel or grass. → Read More