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Tech Xplore / A lightweight wearable device helps users navigate with a tap on the wrist
Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a fabric-based wearable device that "taps" a user's wrist with pressurized air, silently helping them navigate to their destination. The study, published August ...
Tech Xplore / Soft robots self-destruct with little trace
Korean researchers say they have devised a robot that can self-destruct and leave no trace other than an oily puddle.
Tech Xplore / Researchers propose standardized criteria and characterization procedures for evaluating radiative cooling performance
In a world experiencing increased heat stress, a zero-carbon-emission cooling technology that consumes no electricity, operating instead by shedding heat directly into outer space, would be a groundbreaking advance. However, ...
Tech Xplore / Computer scientists develop open-source tool for dramatically speeding up the programming language Python
A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow—up to 60,000 ...
Tech Xplore / Advances in AI, chips boost voice recognition
Separate developments in speech recognition technology from IBM and California universities at San Francisco and Berkeley offer promising news for patients suffering from vocal paralysis and speech loss.
Tech Xplore / Thin panels with inflatable pneumatic cells allow for bending flat structures in desired ways
A trio of materials scientists at Sorbonne Université has developed a new approach to creating types of thin panels that can be transformed into curved, 3D objects without resorting to wrinkling or cutting. In their study, ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers improve performance of all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries
All-solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries (ASSLSBs) are considered one of the most promising next-generation energy storage devices for high energy density, high safety, and low cost of sulfur.
Tech Xplore / New AI model can alter apparent ages of facial images while retaining identifying features
NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers developed a new artificial intelligence technique to change a person's apparent age in images while maintaining their unique identifying features, a significant step forward from ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop flexible, multi-layered coloring transparent electrode
A research team led by Dr. Jung-dae Kwon from the Department of Energy & Electronic Materials at the Korea Institute of Materials Science has succeeded in realizing the world's first transparent thin-film solar cell on a ...
Tech Xplore / IBM develops a new 64-core mixed-signal in-memory computing chip
For decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced devices that can perform complex computations faster and consuming less energy. This has become even more salient after the advent of artificial ...
Tech Xplore / Study highlights the vulnerabilities of metasurface-based wireless communication systems
Metasurfaces, artificially engineered surfaces that can manipulate electromagnetic signals in unique ways, have huge potential for several technological applications, including the implementation of sixth generation (6G) ...
Tech Xplore / Fabrication of p-type 2D single-crystalline transistor arrays with Fermi-level-tuned van der Waals semimetal electrodes
Professor Soon-Yong Kwon in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Zonghoon Lee, has embarked ...