Engineering
It is common for solar panels to be shaded by trees, clouds, birds or buildings. For thin-film solar technologies, however, such shading can cause shaded areas to develop reverse-bias stress (negative voltage), which can ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Hardware
A research team has developed the world's first chip that can match the speed at which the human brain functions. The study, titled "A sub–10-millisecond neural dynamical system based on phase-change memristors," was published ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft power ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Automotive
One of the biggest obstacles to wider adoption of electric vehicles (EV) is completely invisible and unquantifiable: the belief in many consumers' minds that the range limitations of EVs make them a bad option. Doubts about ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Metasurfaces are ultrathin optical components engineered with arrays of nanoscale structures that can control light in ways that are difficult for conventional optics. Unlike traditional optical components, which typically ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Portable handheld fans are now often stacked beside chewing gum and vapes at supermarket checkouts and discount stores, available for less than £10. Once mainly sold online, they're convenient, affordable and increasingly ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Engineering
No wires. No actuators. Shine light on the metal surface, and it rises like a button. KAIST researchers have developed a metal structure that changes shape using light, without any light-absorbing coating. This technology ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Engineering
Researchers in China have unveiled a new robotic exosuit driven entirely by soft artificial muscles instead of traditional motors. This technology could make it easier for older adults, injured patients or factory workers ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine a perfect summer weekend day: a cloudless blue sky with a gentle breeze. Solar panels are at full capacity, wind turbines are turning offshore—and many people are out and about in gardens or parks. Electricity supply ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Security
At least 2.2 million cars on the road today are vulnerable to an attack that allows thieves to lock and unlock doors and immobilize vehicle engines remotely via a Bluetooth connection, computer scientists at the University ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Engineering
Along the vast ocean floor lives a species of glass sponge known as Venus' flower basket. Though delicate-looking, its exterior belies an exceptionally strong, lightweight skeleton that has intrigued scientists for the past ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Software
In the current issue of the journal Nature Methods, siibra is introduced as a software suite that integrates data from different multimodal sources into a comprehensive atlas of the human brain and makes the data easily accessible—for ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Telecom
Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a novel chip architecture that enables the miniature acoustic devices inside smartphones to withstand more than 12 times higher power ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Semi-transparent solar cells that could be added to windows to efficiently harvest energy from indoor light as well as the sun have been developed by an international team led by UCL researchers.
Jul 21, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident."
Jul 22, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Inspired by the cracked, water-trapping skin of elephants, Penn researchers have developed a low-cost cement tile that cools buildings by capturing and slowly evaporating water—turning a structural flaw into a climate solution.
Jul 22, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
New research led by The University of Manchester in collaboration with Durham University has found that AI chatbots such as ChatGPT can match—and in some situations outperform—humans as a source of everyday emotional support. ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
South Korean technology giant Samsung unveiled new, sleeker smartphone models Wednesday priced higher than previous models as artificial intelligence raises component costs.
Jul 22, 2026
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Telecom
A breakthrough in communications research may have solved a key problem with one of the enabling technologies set to underpin future 6G networks.
Jul 22, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
When a robot offers you candy, it is hard not to be curious. In an experiment conducted by ethologists at ELTE, visitors at public events noticed an autonomous service robot more often than a human server, and the candy on ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presented two papers at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. One paper introduces new methods for texturing highly deformable surfaces, and the other proposes a ...
Jul 22, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
The United States on Wednesday announced it had created a "clear framework" for the eventual deployment of offshore nuclear reactors as part of the Trump administration's push to drastically ramp up atomic energy output.
Jul 23, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
A perfect score at the world's most prestigious math contest used to be the preserve of a handful of bright young minds each year, but for the first time, artificial intelligence has also earned a perfect score.
Jul 23, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Do AI models understand the language that they produce? To help answer this question and elucidate the mechanisms of language acquisition more generally, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Engineering
A Seoul National University College of Engineering research team, led by Professor Joo Hwan Oh of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with Dr. Myung Hwan Bae of the Korea Research Institute of Standards ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
A new study by researchers from Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the University of Cambridge has revealed how ions move and exchange within complex porous carbon electrodes. These electrodes play ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Engineering
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed artificial intelligence (AI) methods that learn the large-scale behavior of complex materials from microscopic data. By automatically identifying ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at the Universities of Konstanz and Stuttgart have demonstrated a new approach to computation: a computer made from a few hundred microscopic particles oscillating in a liquid. Instead of processing information ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Internet
Time to check if you've got mail. Again.
Jul 24, 2026
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Business
As retailers increasingly embrace artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and autonomous vehicles, a new retail model is beginning to emerge: mobile stores that drive directly to customers instead of waiting for customers ...
Jul 24, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers have created a wearable patch that can detect hazards in the environment—such as dangerous gases or heavy metals in water—and then notify wearers by vibrating against their skin. The researchers have also extended ...
Jul 24, 2026
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Hardware
Mobile phones today handle far more wireless signals and services than earlier generations. The same is true of the sophisticated equipment behind mobile networks, such as base stations, and emerging technologies such as ...
Jul 24, 2026
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Engineering
A research team led by Professor Sunghak Park of the Department of Future Energy Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, with research teams from Korea University and Northwestern University, has developed an innovative electrochemical ...
Jul 24, 2026
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Robotics
Rescue teams in coastal cities and towns often need to rescue people who are at risk of drowning. These operations often require emergency teams to locate and reach people in distress as quickly as possible, as even a short ...
Jul 24, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
One of OpenAI's most advanced models broke out of a locked-down test and attacked another company's website—reviving fears that AI systems are slipping beyond their creators' control.
Jul 24, 2026
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Engineering
Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries, where they are helping to reduce reliance on electricity generated from fossil fuels. While most solar cells used today ...
Jul 25, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
South Africa, which produces about 40% of Africa's carbon emissions, is moving away from coal-fired power toward renewable energy such as solar and wind.
Jul 25, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Walk around New York and you'll likely hear the chugging of gasoline generators powering the city's tens of thousands of food carts. But not William Arevalo's.
Jul 25, 2026
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Engineering
A new type of 3D-printable material developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin mimics human tissue's ability to sort and filter, allowing certain molecules to pass through while keeping others out. This ...
Jul 26, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence.
Jul 26, 2026
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