Tech Xplore news

Inspired by the human eye, our biomedical engineering lab at Georgia Tech has designed an adaptive lens made of soft, light-responsive, tissuelike materials. Our study is published in the journal Science Robotics.

A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation—a breakthrough that could help make the next generation of lithium batteries safer and more powerful.

Electronic waste is piling up around the world at a rate that far outpaces recycling efforts, partly because it's so costly and time-consuming to recover useful materials from discarded gadgets. When processed improperly, ...

A new collaborative study between IMDEA Materials Institute, China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and the Southern University of Science and Technology, has achieved ...

An international team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo has developed a new material that can be used as flexible artificial muscles to replace rigid motors and pumps in robots and allow them to move more naturally ...

3D printing is extremely practical when you want to produce small quantities of customized components. However, this technology has always had one major problem: 3D printers can only process a single material at a time. Until ...

To meet the growing demands of flexible and wearable electronic systems, such as smart watches and biomedical sensors, electronics engineers are seeking high-performance transistors that can efficiently modulate electrical ...

A European research team involving Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY has developed a novel way for converting mechanical energy into electricity—by using water confined in ...

A research team has developed an innovative parameter, FoMLUE, to evaluate the potential of photoactive materials for semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs), paving the way for their widespread commercial applications.

If you change the timing of a traffic light from 20 seconds to 30 seconds, a new artificial intelligence tool developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers can predict how many more—or how many fewer—accidents will ...

In science and everyday life, the act of observing or measuring something sometimes changes the thing being observed or measured. You may have experienced this "observer effect" when you measured the pressure of a tire and ...

Psychologists and behavioral scientists have been trying to understand how people mentally represent, encode and process letters, words and sentences for decades. The introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, ...