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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.
Feb 8, 2025
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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 ...
Feb 7, 2025
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AI model masters new terrain at NASA facility one scoop at a time
Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery power to complete their mission. Aerospace and computer science engineering researchers at The Grainger ...
Feb 7, 2025
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X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell material that could rival platinum
Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy ...
Feb 7, 2025
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Taking the 'forever' out of 'forever chemicals': Scientists work out how to destroy the PFAS in batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are part of everyday life. They power small rechargeable devices such as mobile phones and laptops. They enable electric vehicles. And larger versions store excess renewable energy for later use, supporting ...
Feb 7, 2025
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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.
Feb 7, 2025
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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" ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Hardware

Sustainable SOT-MRAM memory technology could replace cache memory in computer architecture in the future
How much energy is consumed each time we upload an image to social media, which relies on data centers and cloud storage? Data centers currently account for about 1% of global energy consumption, amounting to 200 terawatt-hours ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Robotics

Ronaldo's Siuuu celebration: Whole-body training model allows robots to mimic famous athlete moves
A team of AI and robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, working with a pair of colleagues from technology company NVIDIA, has developed a new model for training robots to move like human athletes.
Electronics & Semiconductors

Unique hybrid device generates electricity and stores thermal energy efficiently and sustainably
An international research team led by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC) has created a hybrid device that combines, for the first time ever, molecular solar thermal energy storage with silicon-based ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Business

Academic researchers find a way to train an AI reasoning model for less than $50
A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products ...
Internet

AI-powered method improves reliability of next-generation networks
As 5G and 6G networks expand, they promise a future of incredibly fast and reliable wireless connections. A key technology behind this is millimeter-wave (mmWave), which uses very high-frequency radio waves to transmit huge ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Engineering

Self-powered graphene smart sensor takes the pain out of wound monitoring
A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers from Penn State and China's Hebei University of Technology have ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Engineering

Engineers expand multi-material design possibilities with cellular fluidics
Engineering researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved breakthroughs in multi-material additive manufacturing (3D printing) through the power of capillary action. The LLNL team printed lattice ...
Feb 6, 2025
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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, ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Computer Sciences

Improving domain-specific languages to save time on hybrid particle filtering
A particular set of probabilistic inference algorithms common in robotics involve Sequential Monte Carlo methods, also known as "particle filtering," which approximates using repeated random sampling. ("Particle," in this ...
Feb 6, 2025
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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 ...
Feb 6, 2025
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