When the power cuts out, you need light that comes on instantly and predictably, not a scramble for flashlights and a maze of extension cords. The safest approach is to design backup lighting into the ...

Five years, one artist, one robot: how Maxim Gehricke made SEN, a 3D animated short film created solo from concept to final render.

Very quick tutorial. using Subsurface Scattering to simulate translucent materials that scatter light as it passes through. Thanks for watching ...

Chinese researchers have demonstrated a single-step submicron structured surface texturing process that improved the absolute efficiency of a TOPCon solar cell by 1% through broadband anti-reflection ...

Automatically numbering and weighting electronic states instead of taking averages improves estimates of target molecular orbitals.

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