Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have achieved a breakthrough power-conversion efficiency (PCE) of 19.31% with organic solar cells (OSCs), also known as polymer solar cells. This remarkable binary ...
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Robotics
Bio-inspired robots, robotic systems that emulate the appearance, movements, and/or functions of specific biological systems, could help to tackle real-world problems more efficiently and reliably. Over the past two decades, ...
May 29, 2023
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Robotics
Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering at Osaka University have invented a new kind of walking robot that takes advantage of dynamic instability to navigate. By changing the flexibility of ...
May 29, 2023
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Business
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often cast as wreaking havoc and destroying jobs in reports about its growing use by companies. The recent coverage of telecom group BT's plans to reduce its number of employees is a case in ...
May 29, 2023
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Security
Josh Lospinoso's first cybersecurity startup was acquired in 2017 by Raytheon/Forcepoint.. His second, Shift5, works with the U.S. military, rail operators and airlines including JetBlue. A 2009 West Point grad and Rhodes ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Six Flags Magic Mountain visitors will soon have one less line to wait in and more time to spend riding roller coasters when a new Amazon-powered grab-and-go cashierless shop opens at the Valencia amusement park.
May 29, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen has been gaining attention as a clean and efficient energy source. However, is hydrogen really environmentally friendly? Most hydrogen commonly used now is gray hydrogen derived from fossil fuels. Since its production ...
May 29, 2023
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Robotics
Imagine a world where science fiction meets reality, where cutting-edge technology brings to life the awe-inspiring scenes from movies like Prometheus. This is the groundbreaking research led by Dr. Fu Zhang, Assistant Professor ...
May 30, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Perfect recall, computational wizardry and rapier wit: That's the brain we all want, but how does one design such a brain? The real thing is comprised of ~80 billion neurons that coordinate with one another through tens of ...
May 30, 2023
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Automotive
Should I go or give way? It is one of the most basic questions in traffic, whether merging in on a motorway or at the door of the metro. The decision is one that humans typically make quickly and intuitively, because doing ...
May 30, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Although ChatGPT is still in its infancy, its appearance has impacted virtually all fields relying on technology. Which is to say, pretty much everything is or will soon be touched by it.
May 30, 2023
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Engineering
Scientists have developed an advanced technique for 3D printing that is set to revolutionize the manufacturing industry.
May 30, 2023
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Engineering
In recent years, electronics engineers have developed a wide range of systems inspired by human and animal biology. By closely replicating complex biological processes, these systems could ultimately tackle numerous real-world ...
May 30, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A plentiful supply of clean energy is lurking in plain sight. It is the hydrogen we can extract from water (H2O) using renewable energy. Scientists are seeking low-cost methods for producing clean hydrogen from water to replace ...
May 30, 2023
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Engineering
Transistors, semiconducting devices that regulate, amplify and generate the flow of electrical current, are central components of most electronics. Electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly smaller transistors, ...
May 31, 2023
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Engineering
A team of material scientists at the University of Maryland, working with one colleague from Jiaotong University and another from Beihang University, both in China, has developed a cleaner approach to building cooling systems ...
May 31, 2023
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Engineering
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have important uses ranging from aerial photography for agricultural and environmental monitoring to military and policing use. Much of the current UAV technology requires a line-of-sight connection ...
May 31, 2023
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Hardware
A team of security researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has reported a new form of side-channel attack that capitalizes on power and speed management methods used by ...
May 31, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Someone learning to play tennis might hire a teacher to help them learn faster. Because this teacher is (hopefully) a great tennis player, there are times when trying to exactly mimic the teacher won't help the student learn. ...
May 31, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
The accuracy and reliability of ocean communications and transmissions are affected by many sources of offshore distortion and background noise. Decreasing this interference in ocean transmissions is dependent on the process ...
May 31, 2023
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Engineering
A team of researchers has created a new class of titanium alloys that are strong and not brittle under tension, by integrating alloy and 3D-printing process designs.
May 31, 2023
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