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Tech Xplore / Tough fuel cell can stabilize power grid by making and storing energy in extreme industrial conditions
To build a modern-day electrical grid with the flexibility and resilience to handle ebbing and flowing energy sources like solar and wind power, West Virginia University engineers have designed and successfully tested a fuel ...
Tech Xplore / Robots could one day crawl across the moon, and undergrads are laying the groundwork
The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a nondescript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as wide as a large pizza scoots forward on three wheels. It uses an arm with a claw at one end to pick ...
Tech Xplore / Centaur: AI that thinks like us—and could help explain how we think
Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have developed an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human behavior with remarkable accuracy. The language model, called Centaur, was trained on more than ten million decisions ...
Tech Xplore / Cheaper energy bills: AI-created materials could cool cities and spacecraft
New materials developed using machine learning and artificial intelligence could, among other things, keep your house cooler and reduce energy bills.
Tech Xplore / Striking parallels between biological brains and AI during social interaction suggest fundamental principles
UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop remarkably similar neural patterns during social interaction. This first-of-its-kind study reveals ...
Tech Xplore / Shifting UK car exhausts to the right could dramatically cut roadside air pollution
Harmful air pollutants on U.K. pavements generated by diesel cars could be slashed by a third if car exhausts were positioned on the right, according to a new study published in ACS ES&T Air.
Tech Xplore / Spongy material and the sun's power remove salt from seawater
Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they require large amounts of energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have developed a sponge-like ...
Tech Xplore / Innovative ternary alloy films pave the way for ultra-low-power memory devices
A recent study reports (Al,Ga,Sc)N thin films with record-high scandium levels, with exciting potential for ultra-low-power memory devices, as reported by researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo). Using ...
Tech Xplore / Faster topology optimization: An emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost
With the rise of 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing methods, engineers can now build structures that were once impossible to fabricate. An emerging design strategy that takes full advantage of these new capabilities ...
Tech Xplore / New system allows acoustic robots to co-operatively transport objects
While so far robots have predominantly been deployed individually, as teams, they can tackle a wider range of complex missions with remarkable speed and efficiency. For instance, they could help to rapidly transport objects ...
Tech Xplore / RisingAttacK: New technique can make AI 'see' whatever you want
Researchers have demonstrated a new way of attacking artificial intelligence computer vision systems, allowing them to control what the AI "sees." The research shows that the new technique, called RisingAttacK, is effective ...
Tech Xplore / Unique method of rare-earth recycling could strengthen the raw material independence of Europe and America
A research team led by Dr. Miloslav Polášek at IOCB Prague has developed a new method of separating the rare earth elements, or lanthanides, which are widely used in the electronic, medical, automotive, and defense industries. ...
