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Tech Xplore / Global aviation emissions could be halved through maximizing efficiency gains

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford has found that global aviation emissions could be reduced by 50–75% through combining three strategies to boost efficiency: flying only the most fuel-efficient aircraft, switching ...

Jan 7, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Lenovo unveils AI agent to bridge PCs, phones and wearables at CES

Lenovo, the world's top PC maker, unveiled its own AI assistant Tuesday at the CES tech show in Las Vegas, promising a tool that follows users seamlessly across laptops, smartphones and connected devices.

Tech Xplore / Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil humanoid robot Atlas at CES

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people ...

Jan 6, 2026 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Ancient board game tactics help AI unlock optimal cooling strategies

It's a simple law of physics: When electricity or fuel powers a machine, the machine gets hotter. Finding new ways to cool machines quickly and controllably can mean the difference between a functioning electrical grid and ...

Jan 6, 2026 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Manganese gets its moment as a potential fuel cell catalyst

The road to a more sustainable planet may be partially paved with manganese. According to a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Missouri, chemical catalysts containing manganese—an abundant, inexpensive ...

Jan 6, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Engineers demonstrate smallest all-printed infrared photodetectors to date

A research team led by Professor Leo Tianshuo Zhao from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed the world's smallest fully printed ...

Tech Xplore / Patient privacy in the age of clinical AI: Scientists investigate memorization risk

What is patient privacy for? The Hippocratic Oath, thought to be one of the earliest and most widely known medical ethics texts in the world, reads: "Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection ...

Jan 6, 2026 in Security
Tech Xplore / The hidden carbon footprint of wearable health care

University of Chicago and Cornell University researchers analyzed wearable health care electronics and reported carbon impacts of 1.1–6.1 kg CO2-equivalent per device. With global device consumption projected to rise 42-fold ...

Tech Xplore / Ultrathin polymer layer extends lifespan of anode-free lithium metal batteries

Anode-free lithium metal batteries, which have attracted attention as candidates for electric vehicles, drones, and next-generation high-performance batteries, offer much higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion ...

Jan 5, 2026 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Self-driving cars could prevent over 1 million road injuries across the US by 2035

Autonomous vehicles could dramatically reduce traffic accidents and injuries on U.S. roads. Drawing on historical data and current trends, a recent JAMA Surgery study projected that self-driving cars could prevent more than ...

Jan 4, 2026 in Consumer & Gadgets
Tech Xplore / Reinforcement learning accelerates model-free training of optical AI systems

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive optical networks, in particular, enable large-scale parallel computation through the use of passive ...

Jan 3, 2026 in Hardware
Tech Xplore / On-demand hydrogen fuel production goes dark-mode

Hydrogen, the lightest element on the periodic table, is a master of escaping almost any container it's stored in. Its extremely small size allows it to squeeze through atomic-scale gaps in the storage materials, which is ...