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Tech Xplore / When 242 pipes stand between a county and its emergency room
People rarely think about culverts until they are gone. These plain pipes and boxes carry roads over streams and span less than 20 feet—the federal cutoff for what counts as a bridge. That means road-stream crossings stay ...
Tech Xplore / AI shares human tendency to infer character from facial features
Human beings tend to infer personality or character traits from other people's facial features, and these biases—ungrounded in any actual relationship between faces and behavior—lead to unfair outcomes.
Tech Xplore / Engineers connect bacteria to create living transistors
MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing the team to create living "circuit boards" that can be printed onto a growth medium in a Petri dish.
Tech Xplore / When zombie credit cards attack—a loophole that can reanimate expired cards
A new security loophole discovered by researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst can bring some expired credit cards back to life. If stolen, these "zombie credit cards" could leave cardholders vulnerable to ...
Tech Xplore / Engineers make edge AI more efficient by redesigning both algorithm and hardware
Researchers in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated that redesigning both hardware and algorithms can make AI applications on edge devices more efficient. As proof ...
Tech Xplore / Could urine help make EV batteries? Electricity converts urea into hydrazine for energy storage
A team of researchers from Adelaide University's School of Chemical Engineering has identified a new way to create an important chemical for energy storage using urea. Hydrazine, the chemical in question, is widely used in ...
Tech Xplore / Who gets credit when AI joins the team? Rethinking what it means to own an idea
A few months ago, AI made headlines for cracking a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for decades. Mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit-distance conjecture, predicting how many pairs of points could lie the same ...
Tech Xplore / Novel semiconductor neuron tunes noise to selectively process signals
In electronic devices, irregular fluctuations in signals are generally referred to as "noise." Because noise interferes with accurate information processing, conventional semiconductor technology has mainly treated it as ...
Tech Xplore / Interactive dashboard models Formula 1's race to net zero
As the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix arrives Aug. 22–23 in Washington, D.C., the George Washington University community has the opportunity to see up close how complex and resource-intensive a major motorsports event is ...
Tech Xplore / Signal-based system brings end-to-end encryption to shared documents
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, EPFL and the CASA Cluster of Excellence have developed a new approach that provides end-to-end encryption for collaborative online documents throughout the ...
Tech Xplore / Helmholtz resonance powers miniature boats and ultrasonic flying robots
When air is blown across the neck of a bottle, it doesn't just produce a pleasant tone: it also demonstrates a phenomenon called Helmholtz resonance. This occurs when airflow passing across an opening causes air trapped inside ...
Tech Xplore / AI agents struggle to perform original scientific research
Among the many predictions about the future of artificial intelligence is that models will one day be able to conduct scientific research on their own, leaving humans out of the equation. Already, they can write code, run ...
