Engineering
Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.
Jan 20, 2025
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Robotics
A team of roboticists at Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. and the NeuroPiano Institute, in Kyoto, reports that a robotic exoskeleton strapped to the top of a piano player's hand allowed it to control the player's fingers ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A small team of researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. has resurrected the code for a 60-year-old chatbot named ELIZA, believed to be the first electronic chatbot. In their paper posted to the arXiv preprint server, the team ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Hardware
A research team from NIMS and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC) has developed a next-generation AI device—a hardware component for AI systems—that incorporates an iono-magnonic reservoir. This reservoir controls spin ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
An international team of engineers and materials scientists has developed a lithium-sulfur battery capable of retaining 80% of its charge capacity after 25,000 cycles. Their paper is published in the journal Nature.
Jan 20, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Over the past few years, photovoltaic (PV) technologies have become increasingly widespread, contributing to the ongoing quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While most solar cells on the market today are made of silicon, ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
While the Australian book market was down 3% last year, genre fiction—popular on BookTok—was among the rare categories that grew.
Jan 20, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Plastics have shaped our modern world and changed the way we live. For decades, they have been primarily used in electronics for their excellent insulating properties. But in the 1970s, scientists accidentally discovered ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Scientists at the University of Strathclyde have created the world's first fully 3D printed microscope in under three hours and for less than £50—a fraction of the cost of traditional devices.
Jan 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
An interdisciplinary team at POSTECH has developed a technology that addresses key limitations in clean hydrogen production using microwaves. They have also successfully elucidated the underlying mechanism of this innovative ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer.
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Fuel cells offer a form of clean energy across many sectors and are of particular interest in vehicles, where they produce no emissions. The production of fuel cells requires the use of a rapid laser welding process; however, ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Thousands of wind turbines will be added to the North Sea in the next decades. Environmental scientist Chen Li identified the most beneficial areas for their construction, focusing on material use, carbon footprint, and impact ...
Jan 21, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Most batteries are rigid and incompatible with water. But people work and play in oceans and estuaries, and they could benefit from flexible and saltwater-safe power sources.
Jan 21, 2025
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Engineering
Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition, but all contain networks of interconnected strands. A long-standing question about the durability of these materials asks: What is the energy ...
Jan 22, 2025
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Hardware
As artificial intelligence models become increasingly advanced, electronics engineers have been trying to develop new hardware that is better suited for running these models, while also limiting power-consumption and boosting ...
Jan 22, 2025
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Engineering
As nuclear energy ramps up to move towards decarbonization goals, machine learning and AI techniques offer potential to speed up new reactor design and improve safety of the existing fleet. However, the rigorous safety standards ...
Jan 22, 2025
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Engineering
Various clean energy technologies have been developed to meet the rapidly intensifying energy demand and dwindling fossil fuel reserves. However, many of these technologies are hindered by low efficiency and high costs.
Jan 22, 2025
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Engineering
Porous land such as foliage significantly lowers noise made by drones and air taxis, which could reduce disturbances for urban communities as urban air mobility (UAM) grows.
Jan 22, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Roblox isn't just another video game—it's a massive virtual universe where nearly 90 million people from around the world create, play and socialize. This includes some 34 million children under 13 who spend an average ...
Jan 22, 2025
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Robotics
Recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the development of a wide range of systems with unique characteristics designed for varying real-world applications. These include robots that can ...
Jan 22, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The electronics industry has been rapidly advancing over the past few decades, leading to the development of countless devices of different sizes and shapes, which are designed for a variety of applications.
Jan 23, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
As AI tools like ChatGPT become more mainstream in day-to-day tasks and decision-making processes, the ability to trust and decipher errors in their responses is critical. A new study by cognitive and computer scientists ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Hardware
Imagine smartphones that can diagnose diseases, detect counterfeit drugs or warn of spoiled food. Spectral sensing is a powerful technique that identifies materials by analyzing how they interact with light, revealing details ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have developed a new type of optical memory called a programmable photonic latch that is fast and scalable. This fundamental memory unit enables temporary data storage in optical processing systems, offering a ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Across the nation, 911 dispatch centers are facing a worker shortage. Unfortunately, this understaffing, plus the nature of the job itself, leads to dispatchers who are often overworked and stressed. Meanwhile, when community ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Robotics
We humans excel at generalization. If you taught a toddler to identify the color red by showing her a red ball, a red truck and a red rose, she will most likely correctly identify the color of a tomato, even if it is the ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
A team of software engineers, AI specialists and programmers at Tsinghua University, working with TikTok parent company ByteDance, has announced the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) agent model called UI-TARS. ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Engineering
Large batteries for long-term storage of solar and wind power are key to integrating abundant and renewable energy sources into the U.S. power grid. However, there is a lack of safe and reliable battery technologies to support ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Hardware
Neuromorphic computing—a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain's function and structure—needs to scale up if it is to effectively compete with current computing methods.
Jan 24, 2025
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Engineering
A group of energy specialists from University College London, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Loughborough University and the University of Birmingham has found that more homes in the U.K. could switch from ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Robotics
Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf have developed flexible robot wings that are moved by magnetic fields. Inspired by the efficiency and adaptability of the wings ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
A trio of AI researchers at Sakana AI, a Japanese startup, has announced the development of a self-adaptive AI LLM called Transformer2. Qi Sun, Edoardo Cetin, and Yujin Tang, have posted their paper on the arXiv preprint ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Battery-powered electric vehicles are now more reliable and can match the lifespans of traditional cars and vans with petrol and diesel engines—marking a pivotal moment in the drive towards sustainable transportation, a ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Business
In Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Mickey Mouse employs the services of a broom to help him more efficiently fill a cauldron with water. The broom misses the brief and even when the cauldron is full, continues to bring ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Security
Before the end of its first full day of operations, the new Trump administration gutted all advisory panels for the Department of Homeland Security. Among these was the well-respected Cyber Safety Review Board, or CSRB.
Jan 25, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Cars speeding along a smooth, black-colored street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction.
Jan 25, 2025
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Business
Facebook parent Meta has begun testing ads on its newest social network Threads, an executive announced Friday, as the company continues to grow its alternative to Elon Musk's X.
Jan 25, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Donald Trump has long ranted against wind energy—claiming turbines are unsightly, dangerous to wildlife and too expensive—with him threatening to upend decades of industry progress just a few hours after resuming power.
Jan 26, 2025
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Security
The British Museum said it had closed a number of exhibits after a fired IT contractor "shut down" some of its systems, in one of several unrelated incidents targeting European museums on Saturday.
Jan 26, 2025
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Hardware
Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process ...
Jan 26, 2025
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