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Tech Xplore / Stratolaunch conducts first powered flight of new hypersonic vehicle off California coast
U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch conducted the first powered test flight of a new unmanned craft for hypersonic research on Saturday and called it a success.
Tech Xplore / An oscillating robot can propel itself via the reflection of water waves
Odd things can happen when a wave meets a boundary. In the ocean, tsunami waves that are hardly noticeable in deep water can become quite large at the continental shelf and shore, as the waves slow and their mass moves upward.
Tech Xplore / An approach to realize in-sensor dynamic computing and advance computer vision
The rapid advancement in machine learning techniques and sensing devices over the past decades have opened new possibilities for the detection and tracking of objects, animals, and people. The accurate and automated detection ...
Tech Xplore / AI chatbots found to use racist stereotypes even after anti-racism training
A small team of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, Stanford University and the University of Chicago, all in the U.S., has found that dozens of popular large language models continue to use racist stereotypes ...
Tech Xplore / Microsoft's small language model outperforms larger models on standardized math tests
A small team of AI researchers at Microsoft reports that the company's Orca-Math small language model outperforms other, larger models on standardized math tests. The group has published a paper on the arXiv preprint server ...
Tech Xplore / Physicists develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties
Schools of fish, colonies of bees, and murmurations of starlings exhibit swarming behavior in nature, flowing like a liquid in synchronized, shape-shifting coordination. Through the lens of fluid mechanics, swarming is of ...
Tech Xplore / Balancing training data and human knowledge to make AI act more like a scientist
When you teach a child how to solve puzzles, you can either let them figure it out through trial and error, or you can guide them with some basic rules and tips. Similarly, incorporating rules and tips into AI training—such ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers enhance peripheral vision in AI models
Peripheral vision enables humans to see shapes that aren't directly in our line of sight, albeit with less detail. This ability expands our field of vision and can be helpful in many situations, such as detecting a vehicle ...
Tech Xplore / How surface roughness influences the adhesion of soft materials
Adhesive tape or sticky notes are easy to attach to a surface, but are difficult to remove. This phenomenon, known as adhesion hysteresis, can be fundamentally observed in soft, elastic materials: Adhesive contact is formed ...
Tech Xplore / An e-skin that can detect tactile information and produce tactile feedback
In recent years, materials scientists and engineers have introduced increasingly sophisticated materials for robotic and prosthetic applications. This includes a wide range of electronic skins, or e-skins, designed to sense ...
Tech Xplore / Research team develops mechanoluminescent touchscreen that works underwater
Optical properties of afterglow luminescent particles (ALPs) in mechanoluminescence (ML) and mechanical quenching (MQ) have attracted great attention for diverse technological applications. A team of researchers from Pohang ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers' approach may protect quantum computers from attacks
Quantum computers, which can solve several complex problems exponentially faster than classical computers, are expected to improve artificial intelligence (AI) applications deployed in devices like autonomous vehicles; however, ...