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Tech Xplore / Anode-free battery can double electric vehicle driving range

Could an electric vehicle travel from Seoul to Busan and back on a single charge? Could drivers stop worrying about battery performance even in winter? A Korean research team has taken a major step toward answering these ...

12 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Harnessing long-wavelength light for sustainable hydrogen production

A novel dye-sensitized photocatalyst developed at Science Tokyo enables the capture of long-wavelength visible light for efficient hydrogen conversion, surpassing conventional photocatalysts.

18 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Lowering barriers to explainable AI: Control technique for LLMs reduces resource demands by over 90%

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT and Llama are driving exceptional innovations in AI, but research aimed at improving their explainability and reliability is constrained by massive resource requirements for examining ...

17 hours ago in Software
Tech Xplore / Magnetic control of lithium enables a safe, explosion-free 'dream battery'

A new battery technology has been developed that delivers significantly higher energy storage—enough to alleviate EV range concerns—while lowering the risk of thermal runaway and explosion.

19 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string.

19 hours ago in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Smart composite combines ceramic strength with metal flexibility for large-scale manufacturing

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling with the challenge of creating a shape-memory ceramic that can be manufactured at scale without breaking. ...

14 hours ago in Engineering
Tech Xplore / New calibration module offers improved measurement of thermoelectric device performance

A standard reference thermoelectric module (SRTEM) for objectively measuring thermoelectric module performance has been developed in Korea for the first time. A research team led by Dr. Sang Hyun Park at the Korea Institute ...

13 hours ago in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Waymos blocked roads and caused chaos during San Francisco power outage

Many of Waymo's self-driving cars blocked streets of San Francisco during a mass power outage Saturday and forced the company to temporarily suspend service, raising questions about the cars' ability to adapt to real-world ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Hi Tech & Innovation
Tech Xplore / All-optical chip achieves 100-fold speed boost over top-tier NVIDIA chips

Scientists in China have unveiled a new AI chip called LightGen that is 100 times faster and 100 times more energy efficient than NVIDIA chips, the leading supplier of AI chips worldwide. Instead of using electricity to move ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / New computer vision method links photos to floor plans with pixel-level accuracy

For people, matching what they see on the ground to a map is second nature. For computers, it has been a major challenge. A Cornell research team has introduced a new method that helps machines make these connections—an ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Feral AI gossip with the potential to spread damage and shame will become more frequent, researchers warn

"Feral" gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned.

Dec 22, 2025 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Helping AI agents search to get the best results out of large language models

Whether you're a scientist brainstorming research ideas or a CEO hoping to automate a task in human resources or finance, you'll find that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming the assistants you didn't know you ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Computer Sciences