Business
Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun's boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from his job in Beijing, together with about 160 of his colleagues.
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
A new purple cooling fabric developed by Chinese and Australian researchers could help people stay cooler during scorching summer days without having to resort to wearing white.
Aug 24, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Experts have shown that the most powerful security defenses in Windows 11 can be dismantled by an attacker who never touches the target computer.
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
A passenger jet soars across the sky at 640 mph (1,030 kilometers per hour), its wings pummeled with wind and boundary-layer turbulence, challenging the plane's operation and efficiency. Advancing research from Mahmoud I. ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
Despite significant advances in technology, knowing the atomic arrangement of metals in their microstructure—which defines their strength, deformability and other properties—is still tricky. In a new study, Yale researchers ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Computer Sciences
AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) are widely used as recommender systems. While accelerating access to information, AI can also give factually incorrect responses or propagate societal biases.
Aug 24, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
For people who are blind or have low vision, moving around independently is a daily challenge. Harvard researchers have developed a new tool that could help people navigate more quickly and safely with nothing more than a ...
Aug 24, 2026
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Engineering
Cement is one of the most consumed materials globally, second only to water. However, the world's enormous appetite for cement also has an environmental cost: Its production generates more than a billion metric tons of carbon ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Security
Safety protections built into some of the world's most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models can be stripped away with alarming ease, according to a new international study.
Aug 25, 2026
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Robotics
A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors—and the fastest recorded human time.
Aug 25, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Evaporation, the process by which water becomes vapor and disperses into the environment, draws heat from its surroundings. This heat, also known as atmospheric thermal energy, is abundant but diffuse, making it difficult ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Engineering
Merchant ships, coastal infrastructure and maritime facilities are often built with iron and steel, which can corrode over time despite their strength, eventually to the point of failure. With lives and goods on the line, ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Engineering
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have created a semiconductor with unique properties: It is just a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. This is a step toward building more ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Engineering
Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Bordeaux in France have demonstrated a new way to send information through the atmosphere without correcting for the distortions that normally ...
Aug 25, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Bill Gates warned Wednesday that the world is dangerously unprepared for the upheaval brought by artificial intelligence, with the technology destroying jobs and threatening human connection, especially for young people.
Aug 26, 2026
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Engineering
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) that use pure lithium (Li) for their negative electrodes are attracting significant attention because of their extremely high theoretical capacity. However, their practical applications are ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Automotive
A platform for training and comparing machine learning models to actively reduce drag, improve lift, cut noise and manage heat has been launched by an international team that includes researchers at the University of Washington, ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team has developed a flexible near-infrared (NIR) photodetector that delivers photoresponsivity more than five times higher while maintaining its performance under repeated bending. The technology is expected to ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Fuel cells, devices that generate electricity by converting the chemical energy of hydrogen or other fuels via electrochemical reactions, are promising solutions for powering large electric vehicles, industrial sites and ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Engineering
Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn't led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to improve ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells achieve significantly higher efficiencies than silicon solar cells on their own. One particularly attractive method is co-evaporation of the perovskite precursor molecules on top of the ...
Aug 26, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Nearly 700 OpenAI artificial intelligence agents coordinated an attack on the Hugging Face platform without human intervention during a well-publicized July incident, according to a report published Wednesday by independent ...
Aug 27, 2026
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Engineering
As the global push for cleaner energy intensifies, solid oxide fuel cells have emerged as a promising option. They turn hydrogen or other renewable fuels directly into electricity and heat without combustion, eliminating ...
Aug 27, 2026
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Robotics
Do you ever see an ant skittering across your kitchen counter and wonder how this little bug overcame all the obstacles in your home just to get there? Insects use their tiny nervous systems to walk with surprising dexterity—a ...
Aug 27, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
More than 100 organizations around the world, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI and rival Anthropic, have signed an open letter calling for a global effort to "strengthen cyber defenses" against AI-powered cybersecurity threats.
Aug 27, 2026
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Engineering
A new set of modular components allows users to create reconfigurable smart devices with electrical connections that keep working no matter what shape the structure forms.
Aug 27, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Gold has been the safe choice for perovskite solar cells. We found a way to stop needing it.
Aug 27, 2026
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Computer Sciences
For decades, chess has served as a laboratory for studying intelligence and decision-making. It is well established that today's chess engines can outperform even the strongest grandmasters. But far less is understood about ...
Aug 27, 2026
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Engineering
Refrigerators, air-conditioning systems and data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity, and cooling demand is constantly rising. A research team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
While it may sound like science fiction, earbuds that read brain activity are already on sale. Wearable technology company Neurable claims that its headphones, equipped with electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, can track ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Yankai Wang, a Ph.D. student in organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, was reading a paper about how transformers—the architecture behind large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude—might ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Robotics
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created teardrop-shaped soft robots that leap upward or forward when exposed to infrared light—and will keep jumping as long as the light is present. The work demonstrates ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
As the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) continues to grow, the disposal of spent EV batteries is emerging as a major social and environmental challenge. Wastewater generated during conventional battery recycling processes ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Inside every electronic device, the flow of electricity is controlled by a switch called a transistor. For decades, these switches were made from silicon. More recently, engineers have turned to a material called gallium ...
Aug 28, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Arco Bast studies how neurons communicate. Earlier this year, the Janelia postdoc encountered a more mechanical version of the same problem: The components of his custom microscope could not easily communicate with one another.
Aug 28, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
To mitigate climate change and limit global warming to within 1.5°C, scaling up global renewable energy capacity is an important goal. However, the transition to clean energy faces significant resource constraints.
Aug 29, 2026
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Engineering
Inflatable structures are all around us, from pool floaties and archways at the Tour de France to life-saving emergency resuscitators and vehicle airbags. As useful as these structures are, they are limited to only two stable ...
Aug 30, 2026
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Automotive
Officials struggled for years to curb high-speed crashes along a residential corridor cutting through Albuquerque, New Mexico, but simply punishing the lead-footed drivers didn't seem to work.
Aug 30, 2026
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