In 2026, busy national parks, including Arches, Glacier and Yosemite, will be doing away with reservation systems that for years have helped control crowds, the National Park Service announced on ...

Abstract: This paper advances the development of next-generation energy storage systems based on smart batteries. The investigated approach integrates a half-bridge converter into each battery, ...

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...

Abstract: To enhance the reliability and stability of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in dynamic environments, we propose a novel SLAM system integrating an advanced real-time object ...

MIDLAND, Texas — A new lithium carbonate facility opened Friday in Midland, marking the first such operation in the United States in decades and highlighting how the Permian Basin’s oil and gas ...