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Tech Xplore / Titanium oxide material lets sunlight drive green hydrogen production
Clean energy plans, including the U.S. Infrastructure Investment Act's "Clean Hydrogen Road Map," are counting on hydrogen as a fuel of the future. But current hydrogen separation technology is still falling short of efficiency ...
Tech Xplore / Software creates entirely new views from existing video
Filmmakers may soon be able to stabilize shaky video, change viewpoints and create freeze-frame, zoom and slow-motion effects—without shooting any new footage—thanks to an algorithm developed by researchers at Cornell ...
Tech Xplore / New material could hold key to reducing energy consumption in computers and electronics
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has, for the first time, synthesized a thin film of a unique topological semimetal material that has the potential to generate more computing power and memory storage while using ...
Tech Xplore / Thermal cloak passively keeps electric vehicles cool in the summer and warm in the winter
When an electric vehicle is parked outside, its temperature can swing wildly from day to night and season to season, which can lead to deterioration of the battery. To dampen these fluctuations and extend the battery's lifespan, ...
Tech Xplore / Research lays groundwork for future high-performance alternatives to silicon in microelectronics
Researchers in the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion in Israel have demonstrated control over an emerging material, which they consider as a possible future alternative ...
Tech Xplore / Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants
In a new study, deepfake video clips of movie remakes that don't actually exist prompted participants to falsely remember the films—but simple text descriptions of the fake movies prompted similar false memory rates. Gillian ...
Tech Xplore / Super flexible composite semiconductors for next-gen printed displays
Scientists at the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have developed a super flexible, composite semiconductor material that may have applications in next-generation flexible or curved ...
Tech Xplore / Neuralangelo: Unleashing the digital Michelangelo from your smartphone
Until recently, 3D surface reconstruction has been a relatively slow, painstaking process involving significant trial and error and manual input. But what if you could take a video of an object or scene with your smartphone ...
Tech Xplore / Making algorithms used in AI more human-like: Scientists use fMRI to test ideas about complex decision-making
How does the human brain navigate complex circumstances—say, driving through Harvard Square traffic at 5 p.m.?
Tech Xplore / Pump powers soft robots, makes cocktails and opens the door for soft robotic applications
The hottest drink of the summer may be the SEAS-colada. Here's what you need to make it: gin, pineapple juice, coconut milk and a dielectric elastomer actuator-based soft peristaltic pump. Unfortunately, the last component ...
Tech Xplore / Improving high-temperature stability of perovskite solar cells
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained attention for their high power-conversion efficiencies and low-cost solution processing. However, ensuring their stability at high temperatures has been a challenge, as the points ...
Tech Xplore / Planetary analog environments explored by a team of legged robots
On the moon, there are raw materials that humanity could one day mine and use. Various space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), are already planning missions to better explore Earth's satellite and find minerals. ...