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Energy & Green Tech

Solar homes shine in summer, struggle in winter blackouts

As winter storms and summer heat waves increasingly stress the nation's power grids, Stevens researchers have developed a new way to identify the homes most vulnerable to blackouts—without even visiting them.

Electronics & Semiconductors

High-definition organic LED microdisplays with reduced electrical crosstalk could enhance VR and AR experiences

The rapid advancement of the electronics industry is opening new possibilities for the development of increasingly advanced device components, including displays. Many of the most widely used and highly performing displays ...

Energy & Green Tech

Perovskite solar cells achieve 24% efficiency with novel iodine technique

A team led by Professor Zhou Huanping from Peking University has published two papers in the field of perovskite solar cells in Science.

Computer Sciences

Psychology-based tasks assess multi-modal LLM visual cognition limits

Over the past decades, computer scientists have created increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, some of which can perform similarly to humans on specific tasks. The extent to which these models truly "think" ...

Energy & Green Tech

Electricity-producing slime could power floors, shoes and more

University of Guelph (U of G) researchers have developed a slime-like material that produces electricity when compressed. When the team studied their prototype using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, ...

Machine learning & AI

International report warns against loss of control over AI

A frantic race by tech giants to develop ever more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) could have "harmful" effects, leading researcher Yoshua Bengio warned Thursday as scientists marked the start of the Paris global summit ...