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Tech Xplore / A new thermal regulator could enhance the safety of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries

High-capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) could play a crucial role in the electrification of vehicles and other large electronics. To successfully deploy these batteries on a large scale, however, engineers will first need ...

Jun 21, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Researchers 'crack the code' for quelling electromagnetic interference

Florida Atlantic Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI.fau.edu) researchers have "cracked the code" on interference when machines need to talk with each other—and people.

Jun 21, 2024 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Stand-up comedians test ability of LLMs to write jokes

A small team of AI researchers at Google's DeepMind project has found that LLMs are not very good at writing jokes that are funny. They asked stand-up comedians to use LLMs to write a stand-up routine for them and posted ...

Jun 21, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / A method to enable safe mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments

To successfully complete missions in dynamic and unstructured real-world environments, mobile robots should be able to adapt their actions in real-time to avoid collisions with nearby objects, people or animals.

Jun 21, 2024 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Life cycle analysis reveals mixed CO₂ benefits from green hydrogen

Green hydrogen often, but certainly not always, leads to CO2 gains. This claim is based on research published in Nature Energy by Kiane de Kleijne from Radboud University and Eindhoven University of Technology.

Jun 21, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / New polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells can operate at up to 250 °C

Hydrogen fuel cells, devices that can convert the chemical energy stored in hydrogen into electrical energy via an electrochemical reaction, are promising solutions for electrifying large vehicles. Fuel cells based on low-temperature ...

Jun 20, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / New catalyst unveils the hidden power of water for green hydrogen generation

Hydrogen is a promising chemical and energy vector to decarbonize our society. Unlike conventional fuels, hydrogen utilization as a fuel does not generate carbon dioxide in return. Unfortunately, today, most of the hydrogen ...

Jun 20, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Research into 'hallucinating' generative models advances reliability of artificial intelligence

Researchers from the University of Oxford have made a significant advance toward ensuring that information produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) is robust and reliable.

Jun 20, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / Virtual and mixed realities converge in new driving simulator

Portobello, a new driving simulator developed by researchers at Cornell Tech, blends virtual and mixed realities, enabling both drivers and passengers to see virtual objects overlaid in the real world.

Jun 20, 2024 in Hi Tech & Innovation
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop new, more energy-efficient way for AI algorithms to process data

It reads. It talks. It collates mountains of data and recommends business decisions. Today's artificial intelligence might seem more human than ever. However, AI still has several critical shortcomings.

Jun 20, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / New process makes battery production more eco-friendly

Switching from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles is one way to reduce carbon emissions, but building the lithium-ion batteries that power those EVs can be an energy-intensive and polluting process itself. Now researchers ...

Jun 20, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Strategic dam placement can balance hydropower and fish preservation

Hydropower plants need not be disastrous for fishermen and nature. For that, we need to place new dams more strategically, but also modify or even remove some existing ones. Valerio Barbarossa and Rafael Schmitt showed that ...

Jun 20, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech