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Tech Xplore / Memristor chip breaks the capacity limit of brain-inspired associative memory

Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and the Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Invention may bring smart bionic eye into sight

A working prototype that can see, remember and interact with the world like the human brain could one day underpin smart bionic eyes while using far less energy than today's technologies. The invention from RMIT University ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Tracking energy flow reveals voltage pattern that slashes waste heat by over 60%

Almost all the energy that flows into computing devices is eventually squandered as waste heat.

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Whole-body expansion and contraction make a robot seem more alive

A research group comprising Associate Professor Yoshihiro Nakata and Taisei Mogi from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering at The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, and Mari Saito of Sony Corporation ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / A tiny crystal tilt may bring greener magnetic memory closer to everyday devices

University of Warwick researchers have created a new material combining two properties, magnetism and electrical polarization, that scientists have struggled to bring together for decades—and crucially, it works close to ...

Sep 8, 2026
Tech Xplore / Climate, not concrete mix, may drive steel corrosion in low-carbon structures

It is hard to imagine the modern world without concrete. Enormous quantities are used in construction worldwide, and the production of cement—its main ingredient—generates a great deal of CO₂, a greenhouse gas that accelerates ...

Sep 7, 2026
Tech Xplore / Iron could make high-energy sodium-ion batteries last longer

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which charge and discharge by moving lithium ions between two electrodes known as the cathode and anode, remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Over the past decades, however, ...

Sep 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / Long AI conversations reveal misinformation vulnerabilities across seven leading chatbots

The results are in: Which AI model is the most fallible? Persuadable? Correctible? University of Arizona researchers assessed seven different generative AI large language models, or LLMs, for these three qualities during ...

Sep 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI digital twins struggle to predict human behavior, creating 'funhouse mirror' distortions

While many fear artificial intelligence will replace humans, using AI to take over some human roles has benefits. Companies can use the technology to conduct surveys and polls, while behavioral scientists can run experiments ...

Sep 4, 2026
Dialog / Clean steels help reveal unique mechanisms of hydrogen induced cracking

Steel pipelines used for oil and gas transportation remain the backbone of energy infrastructure. Hence, there is heavy focus on their integrity and resistance to degradation in corrosive conditions. Sour corrosion, a dangerous ...

Sep 4, 2026
Tech Xplore / 'Safe query space' lets AI fix SQL errors without starting over

"Find the best-selling product from last year." When an AI system attempts to answer a question like this by querying a company database, even a single reference to a nonexistent item can cause the query to fail. Until now, ...

Sep 4, 2026
Tech Xplore / Brain activity patterns could help sharpen LLM deductive reasoning

Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other similar conversational agents, are now widely used worldwide. In addition to processing, interpreting ...

Sep 3, 2026