Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced new eMobility solutions to address the biggest challenges to electric vehicle (EV) adoption. These innovations will improve the reliability, speed, and convenience of EV charging in homes, workplaces and on the move.
The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR; www.timken.com) Board of Directors has reached an agreement with Tarak Mehta to become Timken's next president and chief executive officer on Sept. 5, 2024. Mehta is currently president of the Motion business and member of the Group Executive Committee at ABB Ltd., a $32 billion leader in electrification and automation.
As Japan becomes more serious about revving up its startup industry, more investors and accelerators are beginning to pay closer attention to the country’s startup scene — especially in Tokyo.
But even though the capital is full of startup energy, it still has a long way to go before it can match rivals such as Silicon Valley, London and Beijing.
According to Startup Genome, a U.K.-based company that specializes in researching and developing startup ecosystems, one thing that Japanese startups need more of is globalization.
Transition metal telluride nanosheets have shown enormous promise for fundamental research and other applications across a rainbow of different fields, but until now, mass fabrication has been impossible, leaving the material as something of a laboratory curiosity rather than an industrial reality.
Choosing paint for your home brings a lot of options: What kind of paint, what type of finish and what color? Water-based paints have emerged as "greener" and less smelly than solvent-based options. And they are often advertised as containing little-to-no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). But, according to research published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, some of these paints do contain compounds that are considered VOCs, along with other chemicals of emerging concern.
When Donald Trump’s White House established the US Space Force in 2019 as the sixth branch of the US military, Washington boasted control of “the ultimate high ground”.
But four years before the formal establishment of that military service branch, Beijing had already established a new branch of its military, also aimed at outer space.