Engineering
Researchers have successfully demonstrated a spectrometer that is orders of magnitude smaller than current technologies and can accurately measure wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to the near-infrared. The technology ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A new international study has introduced Curved Neural Networks—a new type of AI memory architecture inspired by ideas from geometry. The study shows that bending the "space" in which AI "thinks" can create explosive memory ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Engineering
A new study finds that adopting cross-laminated timber as a primary construction material could have significant environmental benefits, from carbon storage to global reforestation and increased forest cover.
Jul 28, 2025
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Engineering
The future of digital computing and communications will involve both electronics—manipulating data with electricity—and photonics, or doing the same with light. Together the two could allow exponentially more data traffic ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
USC scientists have developed a wearable system that enables more natural and emotionally engaging interactions in shared digital spaces, opening new possibilities for remote work, education, health care and beyond.
Jul 28, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Cornell researchers have uncovered a nearly invisible culprit hindering the development of next-generation, high-power electronics: a microscopic layer of carbon contamination, often left behind by air exposure and fabrication ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Robotics
Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new muscles, or actuators, ...
Jul 28, 2025
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Engineering
University of Missouri researchers have devised a more efficient and precise method for manufacturing computer chips.
Jul 29, 2025
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Hardware
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the range and battery life of a connected device.
Jul 29, 2025
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Internet
If you're a Microsoft Authenticator user, like me, you've probably received at least one notice that the app's password management features are no longer usable and that your stored passwords will be inaccessible starting ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Engineering
An international team led by researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute has demonstrated a device capable of electrically controlling heat flow, potentially transforming thermal management in ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Engineering
Multiple moon landings, conducted over several decades, produced a remarkably similar pattern of dust on the lunar surface. The recurrence of this pattern, created by rockets firing during touchdown, is a long-running mystery ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Engineering
Led by Prof. Dr. Nicola Pinna and Dr. Patrícia Russo from the Department of Chemistry at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), scientists have succeeded in disrupting the atomic order of batteries in a targeted manner. The ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Security
Artificial intelligence agents—AI systems that can work independently toward specific goals without constant human guidance—have demonstrated strong capabilities in software development and web navigation. Their effectiveness ...
Jul 29, 2025
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Security
Fact-checkers may have a new tool in the fight against misinformation.
Jul 30, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Increasing solar power generation in the U.S. by 15% could lead to an annual reduction of 8.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. ...
Jul 30, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In an advancement for next-generation electronics, researchers from the International Center for Quantum Materials at Peking University in collaboration with Renmin University of China have successfully fabricated wafer-scale ...
Jul 30, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Guilt is a highly advantageous quality for society as a whole. It might not prevent initial wrongdoings, but guilt allows humans to judge their own prior judgments as harmful and prevents them from happening again. The internal ...
Jul 30, 2025
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Engineering
Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years.
Jul 30, 2025
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Computer Sciences
If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine-learning model might think it is a new data point. In computer science parlance, the molecule is ...
Jul 30, 2025
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Engineering
Imagine a power plant fueled by heat generated deep beneath your feet, silently providing renewable energy day and night, independent of weather or sunlight. Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) promise exactly this, tapping ...
Jul 30, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Joint research led by Sosuke Ito of the University of Tokyo has shown that nonequilibrium thermodynamics, a branch of physics that deals with constantly changing systems, explains why optimal transport theory, a mathematical ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Engineering
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, materials that can conduct electricity and are only a few atoms thick, are promising alternatives to the conventional silicon-based semiconductors currently used to fabricate many electronics. ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
To further reduce the size of electronic devices, while also improving their performance and energy efficiency, electronics engineers have been trying to identify alternative materials that outperform silicon and other conventional ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A newly developed white organic light-emitting diode operates at under 1.5 volts, report researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo. By using triplet–triplet annihilation to generate blue light at low voltage and adding ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Security
Most of the companies behind large language models like ChatGPT claim to have guardrails in place for understandable reasons. They wouldn't want their models to, hypothetically, offer instructions to users on how to hurt ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A tool developed at Texas A&M University is set to transform how emergency responders assess damage after disasters. The technology, known as CLARKE (Computer vision and Learning for Analysis of Roads and Key Edifices), uses ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Engineering
The Energy & Environment Materials Research Division of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), led by Dr. Dong-chan Lim and Dr. So-yeon Kim, has developed a highly durable flexible perovskite solar cell material ...
Jul 31, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool could make it much easier—and cheaper—for doctors and researchers to train medical imaging software, even when only a small number of patient scans are available.
Aug 1, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries.
Aug 1, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Most U.S. households could reduce their electricity costs and endure power outages by installing rooftop solar panels and battery packs, according to a new Stanford University study, though people may need to buy the equipment ...
Aug 1, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
As policymakers in the U.S. and globally consider how to govern artificial intelligence technology, Berkeley researchers have joined with others to recommend opportunities to develop evidence-based AI policy.
Aug 1, 2025
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Robotics
Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic skills that humans have ...
Aug 1, 2025
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Engineering
Engineers at the University of Maine are developing a new method to more accurately predict the strength of lightweight 3D-printed objects. This research, conducted at the university's Advanced Structures and Composites Center ...
Aug 1, 2025
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Internet
A US federal court ruled Thursday that Google must open its Android operating system to rival app stores, after the internet giant lost an appeal in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite maker Epic Games.
Aug 1, 2025
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Software
Lighting plays a crucial role when it comes to visual storytelling. Whether it's film or photography, creators spend countless hours, and often significant budgets, crafting the perfect illumination for their shot. But once ...
Aug 2, 2025
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Automotive
If you've ever been stuck in gridlocked traffic on the 405 or circled the block looking for parking in L.A., you've experienced the kinds of problems Michael Manville has spent years researching and trying to solve.
Aug 2, 2025
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