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Energy & Green Tech
Bending salty ice could be a power source of the future
For most of us, ice is a hazard. Whether it's making roads dangerously slippery or covering our sidewalks, this frozen form of water is something we often try to avoid. Yet, a discovery suggests that bending ice and adding ...
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Engineering
If every US home and personal vehicle goes electric, power outages could spike unless key measures are taken
A future where all homes and vehicles in the U.S. are fully electrified could overwhelm power supply and risk outages unless key upgrades are made, says a new study conducted by Purdue University engineers. But a few strategies ...
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Biohybrid crawlers can be controlled using optogenetic techniques
The body movements performed by humans and other animals are known to be supported by several intricate biological and neural mechanisms. While roboticists have been trying to develop systems that emulate these mechanisms ...
Next-gen perovskite solar cells edge closer to market with improved stability
Researchers at IMDEA Nanoscience (Madrid) have developed a perovskite solar cell with a certified efficiency of 25.2%, very close to the world record of 26.7%. In addition, they managed to manufacture a 5 cm square solar ...
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AI scaling laws: Universal guide estimates how LLMs will perform based on smaller models in same family
When researchers are building large language models (LLMs), they aim to maximize performance under a particular computational and financial budget. Since training a model can amount to millions of dollars, developers need ...
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Engineering
Decoding the sounds of battery formation and degradation
Before batteries lose power, fail suddenly, or burst into flames, they tend to produce faint sounds over time that provide a signature of the degradation processes going on within their structure. But until now, nobody had ...
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Engineering
Observing microscopic dislocations form in real-time during 3D metal printing
Researchers used Argonne's Advanced Photon Source to capture how the microstructure of metals evolves in real time during 3D printing. The findings could pave the way for advanced manufacturing of components for aerospace, ...
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Engineering
Supercapacitors rival batteries in energy storage and outperform them in power delivery
Monash University researchers have made a major leap forward in the global race to build energy storage devices that are both fast and powerful—paving the way for next-generation applications in electrified transport, grid ...
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Computer Sciences
Fast traffic algorithm could improve real-time traffic forecasts
Everyone hates traffic. Big cities in particular are plagued by an overabundance of vehicles, turning a simple crosstown jaunt into an odyssey during rush hour. Part of the problem is that traffic is incredibly complex, and ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale agrivoltaic pilot ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Business
Why OpenAI's solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up—known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination." It also reveals why the problem may be unfixable, ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Engineering
Fixing solar's weak spot: Why a tiny defect could be a big problem for perovskite cells
A recent study provides evidence to help solve one of the key hurdles to large-scale manufacture of next-generation perovskite solar cells.
Sep 15, 2025
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Computer Sciences
How to ensure high-quality synthetic wireless data when real-world data runs dry
To train artificial intelligence (AI) models, researchers need good data and lots of it. However, most real-world data has already been used, leading scientists to generate synthetic data. While the generated data helps solve ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Engineering
Solar desalination technology converts sunlight into fresh water without external power
A research team from UNIST has unveiled a novel solar desalination technology that efficiently harnesses sunlight to evaporate seawater and generate clean drinking water—completely independent of external electricity. Importantly, ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Hardware
New chip design cuts AI energy use by enabling smarter FPGA processing
A new innovation from Cornell researchers lowers the energy use needed to power artificial intelligence—a step toward shrinking the carbon footprints of data centers and AI infrastructure.
Sep 15, 2025
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Robotics
Matryoshka doll-like robot changes its shape in real time and in situ
Until now, when scientists created magnetic robots, their magnetization profiles were generally fixed, enabling only a specific type of shape programming capability using applied external magnetic fields. Researchers at the ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Robotics
Simulated humanoid robots learn to hike rugged terrain autonomously
Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ecological monitoring in unexplored places and more, say University of Michigan researchers who developed ...
Sep 15, 2025
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