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Tech Xplore / Human learning is an underestimated factor in the success of human–AI teams

Human–AI collaboration is widely seen as the work model of the future: The expectation is that together, humans and AI will be more productive than either working alone. Yet the research to date seemed to tell a different ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Tiny chip uses ultrasound-powered microbubbles to steer fluid flow in real time

Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are unwieldy and unpredictable because ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Trading power reductions could reduce data center strain on energy grid

Thanks to the exponential rise of AI, the rapid construction of large, gigawatt-gobbling data centers across the country has stoked concerns about how the power grid will hold up under this additional strain.

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI agents develop their own 'artificial natural language' to communicate about complex data

Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Greener chemistry brings low-toxicity perovskite solar cells closer to production

Solar panels that can be coated onto thin, flexible surfaces could one day be made the way newspapers are printed, at room temperature and without the toxic chemicals the process has relied on, claim researchers from the ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Gut power: Small intestine–inspired biobatteries could generate electricity from wastewater

When trying to figure out a better design for a bacteria-powered biobattery, Binghamton University researchers found inspiration in nature—specifically, the insides of our small intestines.

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Clone2Pwn: Android data migration flaws allowed attackers within Wi-Fi range to steal sensitive data

The standard data migration tools offered by major Android manufacturers such as Samsung, Google and Xiaomi pose security risks, as researchers from the Institute of Information Security at Graz University of Technology (TU ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI and symmetry speed design of sound-absorbing fabrics

Woven textiles can do more than provide softness and strength. Their microscopic arrangement of yarns can also influence how sound travels through a material. However, finding suitable over-and-under yarn patterns is a difficult ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Using electronic structure to guide AI in designing new materials

Structure dictates function. Scientists are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to design the arrangement of atoms in new materials with desired properties. Now, researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Cleaning a giant ship: Roomba-like robots walk on magnetic feet to scrub giant ships

Timothy Wong didn't suspect it at the time, but his dives off the coast of Rockport and the hours he spent studying the wheels and gears of robotics were leading to one mission: figuring out a way to get unwanted sea matter ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Silicon found inside nuclear fuel before it ever entered a reactor

Samantha Gateman and her team at Western University use highly localized electrochemical techniques to see how corrosion starts and evolves at the microscopic level.

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / A flash of light opens a new route to efficient, lightweight semiconductors

Researchers have developed two new organic semiconductor materials using a light-driven chemical reaction. The paper is published in Chemistry—A European Journal.

Oct 15, 2026