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Tech Xplore / Chemistry innovations pave way for more efficient industrial carbon capture

Recent key advances in chemistry could tackle emissions from the world's most polluting industries, according to a new study published in Nature Reviews Chemistry.

Jul 24, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Long-term test shows efficiency of perovskite cells varies with the season

Scientists at HZB ran a long-term experiment on the roof of a building at the Adlershof campus. They expose a wide variety of solar cells to the weather conditions, recording their performance over a period of years. These ...

Jul 24, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / AI-driven framework creates defect-tolerant metamaterials with complex functionality

Many industrial products—from car bumpers to aerospace panels and medical implants—owe their performance to lightweight, cellular materials. These hard-working synthetics are engineered to meet specific functionality ...

Jul 24, 2025 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / New electrochemical process captures carbon from treated wastewater before release

The process of cleaning the water that flows down our drains and toilets can drastically raise carbon dioxide levels in nearby waterways. Two Johns Hopkins University scientists have found an innovative way to reduce levels ...

Jul 24, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / New reconfigurable memristor-based system enables in-memory data sorting

Organizing data in a specific order, also known as sorting, is a central computing operation performed by a wide range of systems. Conventional hardware systems rely on separate components to store and sort data, which limits ...

Jul 23, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / New open-source tool makes complex data understandable

Tabular data is at the heart of scientific analysis—whether in medicine, the social sciences, or even archaeology. Making it comprehensible and usable is often a tedious task, especially when the data is extensive or complex. ...

Jul 23, 2025 in Software
Tech Xplore / Researchers demonstrate modular approach for building scalable quantum computers

What do children's building blocks and quantum computing have in common? The answer is modularity.

Tech Xplore / AI meets antiquity: Ancient historian tests DeepMind's transformative new model

A University of Warwick epigraphy expert has collaborated with Google DeepMind to evaluate "Aeneas," an AI model that reimagines Roman inscriptions.

Jul 23, 2025 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / New transfer printing method creates safer, longer-lasting lithium-metal batteries

A research team in South Korea has developed a breakthrough transfer printing technology that forms protective thin layers on lithium metal surfaces—an innovation poised to solve the long-standing dendrite issue plaguing ...

Jul 23, 2025 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Soft robot mimics ancient cephalopods for efficient, low-noise underwater movement

Nature has long served as inspiration for cutting-edge engineering—especially in the realm of underwater propulsion.

Jul 23, 2025 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Q&A with professor of computer science: What happens when AI faces the human problem of uncertainty?

In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the question of how machines make decisions under uncertain conditions grows more urgent every day.

Jul 23, 2025 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / New scrubbing robot could contribute to automation of household chores

While the advent of robotic systems that can complete household chores has been widely anticipated, those commercially released so far are primarily robot vacuums that autonomously clean the floor. In contrast, robots that ...

Jul 22, 2025 in Robotics