Energy & Green Tech
The Reliability Research Center of the Virtual Engineering Platform Research Division at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) participated as a key research partner in the publication of the report titled "Safety ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Have you ever seen birds flying across the sky in shifting, mesmerizing patterns? Or ants using their own bodies to form a living bridge that other ants can walk across?
Jun 8, 2026
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Robotics
It's a race against the clock when someone falls overboard: People's chances of being found before they drown from exhaustion or freeze to death dwindle by the minute. Rescue efforts are often hampered by the time it takes ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Hardware
The rapid advancement and diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the machine learning models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and similar platforms, have posed new demands on the electronics ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Engineering
Kirigami is a variation on the Japanese art of origami, or paper folding, in which cuts are used to create three-dimensional structures—for example, pop-up cards created from a sheet of paper. Kirigami also has applications ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A University of Manchester student has developed a powerful new ultra-lightweight tool that can turn dark, noisy footage into clear, detailed and usable images. Multinex, a new model for low-light image enhancement (LLIE), ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Two years ago, researchers at MIT proposed a provocative idea: As AI models become more powerful, they begin to see the world in the same way. But not everyone was convinced, and now EPFL scientists have shown that the picture ...
Jun 8, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use microorganisms to generate electricity from organic waste, are emerging as a tool in the transition to cleaner energy systems and for the treatment of wastewater, according to a review ...
Jun 9, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Transistors, small devices that can amplify or switch electrical signals, are central components of all modern computer chips and digital devices. There are two main types of transistors, known as n-type and p-type transistors.
Jun 9, 2026
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Hardware
Randomness forms a crucial backbone of modern society, where every encryption key, secure transaction and digital signature depends on random numbers that no adversary can predict. But every random number generator ever deployed, ...
Jun 9, 2026
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Engineering
Although self-driving cars and sophisticated robots use advanced cameras, computer algorithms and artificial intelligence to perceive their surroundings, these artificial eyes struggle to remain reliable in mixed lighting ...
Jun 9, 2026
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Robotics
Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher—a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin.
Jun 9, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Can pure water store electrical energy? A research team led by Dr. Vasily Artemov within the Cluster of Excellence "BlueMat—Water-Driven Materials" at Hamburg University of Technology has now shown that it can. By confining ...
Jun 9, 2026
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Robotics
Cornell researchers are investigating the potential for using artificial intelligence to give robots social intelligence—the ability to read facial cues, anticipate the needs of those around them, and function within society. ...
Jun 9, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers at UNSW Sydney have harnessed the power of ultrasonic sound waves to make espresso-strength coffee with room-temperature water, cutting energy use by up to 75%. That morning coffee kick from a shot of espresso ...
Jun 10, 2026
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Security
Can we make artificial intelligence impervious to adversaries who want to twist the technology to nefarious ends? Though AI is among the newest of technologies, the answer to that question is nearly a century old.
Jun 10, 2026
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Telecom
Since 2019, GPS signals across Europe, Greenland and Canada have experienced a huge spike in sudden, widespread signal blackouts. These have resulted in disruptions and degraded performance in navigation systems that airplanes ...
Jun 10, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Anthropic, maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made the most powerful version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in sensitive areas.
Jun 10, 2026
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Robotics
KAIST researchers solved a key challenge in the commercialization of physical AI by developing a new technology that enables AI to learn human judgment criteria on its own from just a few videos.
Jun 10, 2026
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Robotics
A bicycle robot from the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first to perform an unassisted acrobatic front flip. RAI calls the bicycle robot an ultra-mobility vehicle (UMV). It can ...
Jun 10, 2026
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Engineering
Anuja Tripathi grew up in Kanpur, India, where coal fly ash from a nearby power plant coated rooftops, windowsills and laundry hung outside to dry.
Jun 10, 2026
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Robotics
In her tiny apartment in South Korea, where she lives alone, 78-year-old Bang Chun-ja spends her days with a childlike AI-powered doll she says she prefers to people.
Jun 11, 2026
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Engineering
The photoacoustic effect has been known for more than 150 years: Gases exposed to light heat up. Pulsing the light generates periodic pressure fluctuations, or sound waves, with frequencies that can be uniquely assigned to ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Engineering
Hydrogen could be the key to a clean energy future, but a tiny problem has been holding it back: bubbles. In a paper published in Energy & Environmental Science, a multidisciplinary team of UNSW researchers, in collaboration ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Business
Betting that people will soon grow more comfortable having artificial intelligence agents shop for groceries, plane tickets or diapers on their behalf, payments giant Visa said Wednesday that it has embedded its payment network ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Engineering
Autonomous vehicles are already a reality on some of our streets and could become a major part of future transportation systems. Safety, of course, is the main concern, as with all vehicles. To help evaluate and improve its ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Robotics
For remotely operated underwater vehicles, cloudy and turbulent waters are often a no-go. When vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that make it tough for onboard ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Computer Sciences
A single photograph contains a wealth of information, but determining 3D spatial relationships from a 2D scene is no simple task. Many attempts have been made to develop a method to reconstruct both depth and sharp color ...
Jun 11, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
In a recent editorial published in Science, Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, and researcher Robert West from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Switzerland issue a stark warning ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Prof. Yongtaek Hong from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed a high-performance transparent organic light-emitting ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A joint research team has experimentally observed ballistic transport in single-crystalline copper thin films, demonstrating that ballistic transport is achievable in an industry-standard metal at interconnect-relevant dimensions. ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
If you shop on Google Flights, you get a quick comparison of different itineraries: One flight's carbon emissions may be average, while another's are 14% higher. But if you go shopping for a new laptop, you likely won't find ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Batteries are undergoing rapid advances. For example, modern zinc-air batteries have the remarkable ability to use oxygen as energy—but that oxygen isn't stored in the battery itself. Zinc-air batteries take in surrounding ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
When they get home, the residents of a small housing association on the outskirts of Hudiksvall, Sweden, plug in their electric vehicles to charge them or, intriguingly, power their homes.
Jun 12, 2026
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Business
Elon Musk's SpaceX is becoming a publicly traded company after selling 555.6 million shares in what was the biggest initial public offering in history. But my new research suggests that investors who bought those shares are ...
Jun 12, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed an artificial photosynthesis system capable of producing solar fuels more stably by integrating a self-regulating chemical component directly into the electrolyzer ...
Jun 13, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
AI giant Anthropic said Friday it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.
Jun 13, 2026
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Security
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new paradigm for identifying online phishing campaigns. Their new system, PhishLumos, is triggered when links show signs of concealing information and looks for ...
Jun 13, 2026
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Engineering
This week's magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble.
Jun 13, 2026
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Computer Sciences
In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to ...
Jun 14, 2026
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Robotics
A detection robot developed under the leadership of TU Graz can "sniff out" hazardous substances and support high-risk fire service operations as a remote-controlled advance guard. A recent study shows how fire services can ...
Jun 14, 2026
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