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Tech Xplore / What to know about the $6.3B hack on Binance, likely the biggest-ever crypto theft

Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than $6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Blockchain firms have pointed to the attack coming ...

Oct 31, 2026
Tech Xplore / Armored caterpillars offer robot designers lessons in crossing slippery glass

Animals have long been one of the primary sources of inspiration for robotics researchers. This is because they rely on sophisticated biological mechanisms and locomotion strategies that could be artificially reproduced in ...

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Mystery of 60-second fluctuations in power grids solved

TenneT Germany, the largest transmission system operator in Germany, has observed over several years that the frequency in the European power grid dips briefly every 60 seconds. While these deviations were not critical to ...

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Robot moth grows a UV sensor by using an artificial circulatory system

A moth-shaped robot used an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical building blocks through its body and grow a light sensor where UV light struck.

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Fast Feature Field: The missing link between event cameras and robot vision

For decades, event cameras, which emulate the biological retina by continuously monitoring changes in light intensity, have promised to revolutionize how robots perceive the world by allowing them to react faster and operate ...

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Laser pulses can track extreme airflow in tests for hypersonic spacecraft

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington's Aerodynamics Research Center have published a study in the journal Communications Engineering. Their work details a laser-based technique applied to arc-jet flows that ...

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Thousands of deceptive ads evade Google's safeguards

Thousands of deceptive advertisements have slipped through Google's advertising safeguards, exposing internet users to fake virus warnings, misleading software promises and potentially dangerous downloads, according to new ...

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / Solid-state cooling advances toward practical use, but challenges remain

As temperatures rise, the need for cooling is growing worldwide. Conventional cooling systems consume large amounts of electricity and use refrigerants with a high global warming potential. Caloric cooling could offer a sustainable ...

Oct 30, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI often passes for human, but asking follow-up questions can trip it up

Reading a conversation and deciding whether a chatbot wrote it can be surprisingly difficult. In a study involving more than 72,000 judgments of human and AI responses, participants frequently mistook machine-generated captions, ...

Oct 29, 2026
Tech Xplore / Improving AI-generated images, pixel by pixel

If you have ever used an artificial intelligence text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, you may have encountered a common but maddening problem: The image looks nearly perfect, but when you ask the AI to fix ...

Oct 29, 2026
Tech Xplore / Cracks that carry current: Liquid metal forms electrical pathways in soft materials

When electronics need to stretch, bend or flex, like a wearable sensor or a shape-changing robot, liquid metal often carries the electricity that makes them work.

Oct 29, 2026
Tech Xplore / New virtual assistant streamlines one of the most advanced microscopes

Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: Where, exactly, are the atoms? The arrangement of atoms determines nearly everything about how a material ...

Oct 29, 2026