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Driverless 'bus of the future' is tested in Barcelona
Commuters in downtown Barcelona have been able to ride the bus for free this week. There's just one catch: this mini-bus has no one at the wheel.
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Heat-based stabilization of a conductive polymer simplifies bioelectronics fabrication
Recent advances in the field of materials science have opened new possibilities for the fabrication of bioelectronics, devices designed to be worn or implanted in the human body. Bioelectronics can help to track or support ...
Mar 14, 2025
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Scientists develop high-performance permanent magnet without expensive heavy rare earth elements
The Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), led by Dr. Tae-Hoon Kim and Dr. Jung-Goo Lee has successfully developed a grain boundary diffusion process that enables the fabrication ...
Mar 14, 2025
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When a robot becomes the boss: Exploring authority, obedience and relationships with machines
How does a robot perform as a boss at work? The results of research by Polish scientists published in Cognition, Technology & Work suggest that while robots can command obedience, they are not as proficient at it as humans. ...
Mar 14, 2025
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Exo 2: A new programming language for high-performance computing, with much less code
Many companies invest heavily in hiring talent to create the high-performance library code that underpins modern artificial intelligence systems. NVIDIA, for instance, developed some of the most advanced high-performance ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Researchers develop innovative method for secure operations on encrypted data without decryption
A hospital that wants to use a cloud computing service to perform artificial intelligence data analysis on sensitive patient records needs a guarantee those data will remain private during computation. Homomorphic encryption ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Discarding a long-standing pessimistic hypothesis to rescue next-generation lithium-ion battery technology
In a megascience-scale collaboration with French researchers from College de France and the University of Montpellier, Skoltech scientists have shown a much-publicized problem with next-generation lithium-ion batteries to ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A tiny component for record-breaking bandwidth: New modulator breaks the terahertz mark
Plasmonic modulators are tiny components that convert electrical signals into optical signals in order to transport them through optical fibers. A modulator of this kind had never managed to transmit data at a frequency of ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Multifunctional solar cells: Ferroelectric domain manipulation enhances electric output in perovskite crystals
A team of researchers has made an advancement in the field of multifunctional energy harvesting. Their latest study advances in understanding the photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric crystals.
Mar 13, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Cross-linker additive boosts organic solar cell lifespan by 59%
An international team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel cross-linker additive that significantly addresses the longstanding stability issues associated with organic solar cells, also known as organic ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Engineering
Reusing old oil and gas wells may offer green energy storage solution
Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A new study by researchers at Penn State has ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Most AI struggles to read clocks and calendars, study finds
Some of the world's most advanced AI systems struggle to tell the time and work out dates on calendars, a study suggests.
Mar 13, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Unofficial parental control apps put children's safety and privacy at risk
Some "unofficial" parental control apps have excessive access to personal data and hide their presence, raising concerns about their potential for unethical surveillance as well as domestic abuse, according to new research ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Security is just a side quest: Insights from the video game industry
The video game industry is a constantly changing market worth billions. In a qualitative interview study with industry experts, CISPA researcher Philip Klostermeyer from the team of CISPA Faculty Prof. Dr. Sascha Fahl investigated ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Lithium needed for the battery revolution could be harvested from saltwater lakes thanks to a new membrane
Demand for lithium is rising due to its use in batteries for mobile devices, cars and clean energy storage. Securing access to natural deposits of the mineral is now a matter of strategic importance, but lithium can be found ...
Mar 12, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Nickel-based cathodes may pave a path to safer, high-energy electric vehicle batteries
Nickel's role in the future of electric vehicle batteries is clear: It's more abundant and easier to obtain than widely used cobalt, and its higher energy density means longer driving distances between charges.
Mar 12, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Ultra-broadband photonic chip boosts optical signals to reshape high-speed data transmission
Modern communication networks rely on optical signals to transfer vast amounts of data. But just like a weak radio signal, these optical signals need to be amplified to travel long distances without losing information.
Mar 12, 2025
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