Harvard’s Visual Computing Group developed BRIDGE, a simulation system that converts standard standing-basketball footage into realistic wheelchair-basketball videos.

In the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, researchers in Taiwan — where expanding renewable energy is challenging given its limited size and geographical constraints — compared land-based solar farms and the island nation’s first large-scale commercial offshore floating photovoltaic installation. They found that offshore systems can generate more electricity over their lifetime, possibly because of the cooling effect of the surrounding water. The study yielded comprehensive insights into the carbon footprint of both types of systems, offering guidance for mitigating CO2 emissions.

The new “MIGHTY” system rapidly generates travel routes for autonomous robots navigating in uncertain situations, allowing them to react to obstacles in milliseconds while staying on a smooth flight path that minimizes travel time. 

A new study led by Dr Lin Su of Queen Mary University of London, published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describes a new integrated solar reactor in which engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) are grown directly inside the same liquid that converts CO₂ into a usable energy source using sunlight. In future, this technology may be used to make environmentally clean chemicals, plastics or even microbial protein.