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Tech Xplore / Mini brain organoids 'read' braille in key step toward biohybrid computing

Could computers include tiny brain organoids one day? The human brain is an incredibly energy-efficient computer, and silicon processors that try to imitate it achieve huge energy savings over traditional processors. Now ...

Oct 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI agents get better by anticipating errors in their own software changes

Some artificial intelligence agents can modify the programs and instructions governing their own work, with the goal of improving performance. These changes, however, can introduce errors, while testing unsuccessful modifications ...

Oct 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / Self-cooling film for thermal management in AI-era electronic devices

A research team led by professor Seong Kyun Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a "passive cooling film material" that uses moisture in the air to cool electronic devices—no water or electricity ...

Oct 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / Can AI help discover new food physics? Researchers pair AI with human expertise

Information about food properties that determine quality, safety and sensory characteristics is critical for food product development and processing design, but it is spread across thousands of scientific papers written over ...

Oct 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / Decarbonization in civil aviation: Transition strategies still don't go far enough

As the effects of climate change and the associated risks are increasingly being felt, several organizations have developed roadmaps that outline potential steps toward carbon neutrality in the aviation sector. These strategies ...

Oct 16, 2026
Tech Xplore / LLMs show a human-like double standard when judging others' reasoning

Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize texts and generate content ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / AI agents develop their own 'artificial natural language' to communicate about complex data

Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Tiny chip uses ultrasound-powered microbubbles to steer fluid flow in real time

Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are unwieldy and unpredictable because ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Experiment reveals how hidden agendas in AI advice can distort human decisions

A research team has discovered that AI assistants can easily manipulate users into making disadvantageous decisions when the AI operates with a hidden agenda.

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Chemical fine-tuning lifts perovskite LEDs to 37% efficiency

Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / New cyber threat to water systems exposes limits of encryption

University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into ...

Oct 15, 2026
Tech Xplore / Fingerprint authentication uses ultrasound without storing biometric information as digital data

A research team has developed a new biometric authentication technology that can identify users without storing their fingerprint information as digital data. The study is published in Nature Sensors.

Oct 15, 2026