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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...