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Energy & Green Tech

Can a roof's material cool the outside air and lower energy demand?

Concrete sidewalks, black asphalt streets, traffic, brick and steel buildings. These common city elements can retain heat and increase temperatures in a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect.

Software

Gamers help highlight disparities in algorithm data

Is The Witcher immersive? Is The Sims a role-playing game?

Robotics

Farm robots inspired by ant brains

With the rapid-paced rise of AI in everyday life, nothing, not even the traditional farmer, is untouched by the technology.

Electronics & Semiconductors

An adhesive and stretchable epicardial patch to precisely monitor the heart's activity

Epicardial patches are carefully engineered tissue patches that can be placed near or on a patient's heart. These devices can help doctors to diagnose and treat a variety of heart conditions, including arrhythmia and heart ...

Robotics

New exosuit helps runners sprint faster

A team of mechanical engineers at Chung-Ang University in South Korea has developed an exosuit that can help runners cover short distances faster. Their project is reported in the journal Science Robotics.

Hardware

Accelerating sustainable semiconductors with 'multielement ink'

Semiconductors are the heart of almost every electronic device. Without semiconductors, our computers would not be able to process and retain data; and LED (light-emitting diode) lightbulbs would lose their ability to shine.

Engineering

Chemical engineers unveil fire-safe fuel

UC Riverside chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn't react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a "safe" ...

Engineering

Solar cell material can assist self-driving cars in the dark

Material used in organic solar cells can also be used as light sensors in electronics. This has been shown by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, who have developed a type of sensor able to detect circularly polarized ...

Security

Enhancing AI robustness for more secure and reliable systems

By completely rethinking the way that most Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems protect against attacks, researchers at EPFL's School of Engineering have developed a new training approach to ensure that machine learning models, ...