Engineering
Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft respond to extreme environments, or how bridges resist stress could be made thousands of times faster thanks to new artificial intelligence that enables personal computers ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of engineers led by the University ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
There's a big push underway to increase the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries powering EVs on the road today. By law, in the US, these cells must be able to hold 80% of their original full charge after eight years of operation.
Dec 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
University of Waterloo researchers have made a key breakthrough in developing next-generation batteries that are made using magnesium instead of lithium.
Dec 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Conventional wastewater treatment involves the centralized collection of wastewater from sources through pipes to large-scale treatment plants, where it is treated in bulk. However, this is not feasible in small, decentralized ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Robotics
To help humans to complete everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to reliably manipulate everyday objects that vary in shape, texture and size. Many conventional approaches to enable robotic manipulation of various ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Google on Monday showed off a new quantum computing chip that it said was a major breakthrough that could bring practical quantum computing closer to reality.
Dec 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
For decades, silicon has been the backbone of the solar industry, but it's nearing its theoretical efficiency limit of 29.4%. To push beyond this cap, scientists are turning to tandem solar cells, which have layered materials ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Engineering
A pair of engineers at Hamad Bin Khalifa University has developed a desalination system that also produces electricity, hydrogen and cool air for refrigeration. In their paper published in the journal Desalination Nurettin ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
An international team of physicists, chemists and electronic engineers reports that a stabilizing ligand enables all-inorganic perovskite cells with an efficiency of up to 22%. In their study, published in the journal Nature, ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Quantum computers differ fundamentally from classical ones. Instead of using bits (0s and 1s), they employ "qubits," which can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement.
Dec 10, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, engineers have been trying to develop alternative photovoltaic (PV) technologies that could be more affordable and scalable than silicon-based solar cells, while also exhibiting good power-conversion efficiencies ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Engineering
Magnesium alloys are increasingly popular in vehicle and aircraft design due to their strength, light weight, and ease of machining. Reducing weight is crucial because lighter vehicles need less power to move, saving energy ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Engineering
A piece of navigation technology that uses the ability to sense information through touch can help people with visual impairment perform a location task as well as sighted people, according to new Imperial-led research.
Dec 10, 2024
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Telecom
As our devices multiply and data demands grow, traditional wireless systems are hitting their limits. To meet these challenges, we have turned to an innovative solution. At the University of Melbourne and Monash University, ...
Dec 11, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power everything from electric vehicles to wearable devices. But new research from Case Western Reserve University suggests that a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative may lie ...
Dec 11, 2024
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Engineering
As cities continue to grow globally, characterizing the built environment is essential to understanding human populations, projecting energy usage, monitoring urban heat island impacts, preventing environmental degradation, ...
Dec 11, 2024
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Business
At first glance, Jaguar's new electric Type 00 concept car is surprising, shocking or perhaps even jarring to some. This is largely due to its bright pink color (it also comes in blue).
Dec 11, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world's tech giants race to take the lead in the fast developing technology.
Dec 11, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Machine-learning models can fail when they try to make predictions for individuals who were underrepresented in the datasets they were trained on.
Dec 11, 2024
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Security
Cyber security experts studying memory modules in computers have uncovered a key weakness that has led to worldwide security fixes in AMD computer processors.
Dec 11, 2024
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Engineering
A QUT-led research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for batteries.
Dec 12, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Research has long shown that humans are susceptible to "social identity bias"—favoring their group, whether that be a political party, a religion, or an ethnicity, and disparaging "outgroups." A new study by a team of scientists ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Engineering
Civil and systems engineers at Johns Hopkins University have turned a longstanding problem with 3D printers into a multifunctional feature: The team developed a new printing technique that solves the fundamental weakness ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Engineering
The amount of waste generated by the construction sector underscores an urgent need for embracing circularity—a sustainable model that aims to minimize waste and maximize material efficiency through recovery and reuse—in ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Hardware
Optical fibers carry voice and data at high speeds across long distances, and IBM Research scientists are bringing this speed and capacity somewhere they haven't previously gone: inside data centers and onto circuit boards, ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Deep neural networks are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that imitate how human brains process information, but understanding how these networks "think" has long been a challenge. Now, researchers at Kyushu University ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have found that quantum algorithms could speed up generative artificial intelligence (AI) creation and usage.
Dec 12, 2024
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