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Tech Xplore / Sustainable production of high-quality perovskite solar cells

Perovskite solar modules provide numerous benefits. They are lightweight, highly efficient, easily scalable, and at the same time inexpensive and facile to produce. However, their commercial use still faces challenges. During ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI video translation shows promise but humans still hold the edge

AI video translation is not yet a perfect substitute for human translation, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

Dec 18, 2025 in Hi Tech & Innovation
Tech Xplore / Robotic arm successfully learns 1,000 manipulation tasks in one day

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world problems. Most of these robots, however, often perform poorly on tasks that they were not trained on, ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap—and a valid test for doing so will remain ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Business
Tech Xplore / Self-healing nuclear fuel could improve safety, reduce waste in reactors

Nuclear power is among the cleanest energy sources on Earth, but the materials that fuel it can degrade during operation. A new international study may unlock safer, longer-lasting fuel for the next generation of reactors.

Dec 17, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Flexible position encoding helps LLMs follow complex instructions and shifting states

Most languages use word position and sentence structure to extract meaning. For example, "The cat sat on the box," is not the same as "The box was on the cat." Over a long text, like a financial document or a novel, the syntax ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Sodium-ion batteries can charge faster than lithium counterparts with hard carbon electrodes

The worldwide push for sustainability requires better, more durable batteries to support renewable energy systems and ubiquitous electronic devices.

Dec 17, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI system protects wireless networks from jamming attacks in real time

A research team at the University of Ottawa has developed an advanced artificial intelligence system designed to autonomously defend wireless networks from jamming attacks, operating much like a digital immune system. This ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Telecom
Tech Xplore / AI-generated audio fills in the gaps for glitch-free music experiences

We've all been there, protecting our ears—the school play in the gym or community hall, where sound is distorted due to glitches in equipment.

Dec 17, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Confined crystallization strategy improves spray-coated perovskite device performance

Metal halide perovskites are promising for next-generation high-efficiency photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices due to excellent tunable properties and solution processability. Recent fabrication techniques (such as spin ...

Tech Xplore / New analog computing method slashes AI training energy use

Artificial intelligence is getting more powerful—but it's also racking up a massive energy bill. Some estimate that one maximum-length ChatGPT query can use about twice as much power as an average U.S. home does in one ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / New algorithm enables wireless communications without perceptible delays in industrial environments

A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has developed an innovative algorithm for Wi‑Fi networks called "Ponte" that can provide communication in industrial ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Internet