Robotics
A cheetah's powerful sprint, a snake's lithe slither, or a human's deft grasp: Each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones work together to provide ...
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Robotics
Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots that can physically "grow," ...
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Energy & Green Tech
A new study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst establishes a link between what U.S. households pay for electricity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power generation.
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Energy & Green Tech
What if neighborhoods could lower their electricity bills without investing in expensive battery systems? An international study led by researchers at CWI (the national research institute for mathematics and computer science ...
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Business
Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California's Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for decades, but drought, increasing costs and decreasing water availability are making each year more ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising candidate to replace internal combustion engines, especially for heavy-duty vehicles like long-haul trucks and forklifts. Rather than burning fuel, the hydrogen reacts with oxygen to produce ...
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Machine learning & AI
Just as people from different countries speak different languages, AI models also create various internal "languages"—a unique set of tokens understood only by each model. Until recently, there was no way for models developed ...
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Engineering
Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you'll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the same microscopic building ...
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Machine learning & AI
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes lose confidence when answering questions and abandon correct answers, according to a new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London.
Energy & Green Tech
The world has been enriching uranium for many decades, primarily beginning in the Cold War era. As a result, there are stockpiles of depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6), or nuclear waste.
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