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Energy & Green Tech
It's getting easier to live off‑grid—but it comes with certain costs
For most of Australian history, "going off-grid" meant living somewhere the main electricity network did not reach. Isolated communities and remote farming properties have long relied on stand-alone power systems. These typically ...
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Chatbot gives teens first-hand experience of cybergrooming tactics without the risk of harm
Virginia Tech researchers are developing virtual tools to help teens protect themselves against cybergrooming. Using survey data from parents and teens and leveraging artificial intelligence, the research team created a chatbot ...
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Harvesting hot electrons could break solar panel barrier
Physics predicts that no more than 33% of the solar energy that falls on a solar panel can be converted into electricity. However, experiments and simulations by scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands ...
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A robot that shifts its own weight to cross land, steps, and water
A robot meant to inspect a coastline, a flooded street or a wetland can't count on one kind of ground. It might need to crawl over a hard surface, climb a bank, scale a curb or a step, then slide into open water, often within ...
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Energy & Green Tech
'Artificial leaf' generates clean hydrogen from contaminated seawater
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have designed a device that harvests sunlight to generate clean hydrogen from seawater and simultaneously degrades hydrazine, a highly toxic contaminant from industrial ...
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Machine learning & AI
AI still isn't as good at recognizing objects as people are, new test shows
Artificial intelligence has gradually made its way into many areas of life with abilities that often match or surpass those of humans. But a study published in the journal iScience finds that AI-powered machines have trouble ...
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Engineering
MRI technique eliminates 'dead time' to capture rapidly fading signals, making scans more precise
A team of researchers at the University of Stuttgart has developed a new method that could make MRI even more precise by eliminating "dead time," a key limiting factor in the measurement process, thereby enabling the detection ...
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Engineering
New method can assess interchangeability of chemically different battery types
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed a new method to determine when sodium-ion (Na-ion) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technologies can provide comparable electrical performance for defined applications.
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Degrading dopants could boost organic semiconductor charge levels 100-fold
Organic semiconductors are carbon-based materials that can conduct electricity and can be used for flexible, lightweight and potentially low-cost electronic devices. While the technology is promising, performance challenges ...
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Engineering
Engineers create revolutionary new sound effect paradigm by manipulating sound wave interactions
Electronic engineers at Nottingham have found a new way to create sound effects by manipulating the interaction of sound waves, a method that could open new possibilities in music performance and production. It is a novel ...
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Engineering
Ferroelectric material that's stable at near-atomic thickness reveals new route to low-power electronics
Electronics engineers worldwide have been trying to develop increasingly smaller components that can store and process information while consuming less energy. Ferroelectric materials, which possess spontaneous electrical ...
Machine learning & AI
OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely
OpenAI has disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.
Sep 17, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now 'talk' to each other and make new discoveries
Since 1665, scholarly journals have served as written records of scientific advancement—static words on a page, references written by people for other people to read. That's about to change.
Sep 16, 2026
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Computer Sciences
How AI models decide not to answer a question
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems supporting the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and similar conversational platforms, are often expected to answer queries, generate texts for specific ...
Software
When AI agents cheat on math problems, others blow the whistle
AI is advancing rapidly. One of the major shifts in the field is that, instead of single chatbots performing individual tasks, teams of autonomous agents work together by communicating with each other, sharing tools and accessing ...
Engineering
Steelmaking waste could store solar energy, with electric arc furnace slag leading early tests
Storing energy as heat is a proven pathway to address the challenge solar power faces when it's dark or cloudy outside by enabling the capture, storage and on-demand release of thermal energy. The process, called high-temperature ...
Sep 16, 2026
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