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Tech Xplore / Scientists use food industry byproduct to recover gold from electronic waste
Transforming base materials into gold was one of the elusive goals of the alchemists of yore. Now Professor Raffaele Mezzenga from the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich has accomplished something ...
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Tech Xplore / Fire-resistant sodium battery balances safety, cost and performance
A sodium battery developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin significantly reduces fire risks from the technology, while also relying on inexpensive, abundant materials to serve as its building blocks.
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Tech Xplore / All-light communication network bridges space, air and sea for seamless connectivity
Researchers have developed an all-light communication network that enables seamless connectivity across space, air, and underwater environments. The new network design combines different types of light sources to ensure connectivity ...
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Tech Xplore / Researchers create new compound to build space-age antennas
In a first-of-its-kind development, UBC Okanagan researchers, in collaboration with Drexel University, have created a new compound that can be used to 3D print telecommunication antennas and other connectivity devices. These ...
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Tech Xplore / Research team develops insect-mimicking sensor to detect motion
The recent development of an intelligent sensor that mimics the optic nerve of insects while operating at ultra-high speeds and low power offers extensive expandability into various innovative technologies. This technology ...
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Tech Xplore / Reducing halide segregation in wide-bandgap mixed-halide perovskite solar cells using redox mediators
Multi-junction solar cells, solar cells comprised of many individual semiconductor junctions stacked together, have the potential of outperforming single-junction solar cells both in terms of efficiency and stability. In ...
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Tech Xplore / Scientists develop liquid metal-embraced photoactive films for artificial photosynthesis
Solar-driven photocatalytic or photoelectrochemical water splitting holds great promise for direct solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion, especially in the context of the carbon-neutral initiative, while its practical applications ...
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Tech Xplore / Data leaks can sink machine learning models
When developing machine learning models to find patterns in data, researchers across fields typically use separate data sets for model training and testing, which allows them to measure how well their trained models do with ...
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Tech Xplore / Researchers design open-source AI algorithms to protect power grid from fluctuations caused by renewables and EVs
In order to prevent power grid failure in a society where electrification is supplied increasingly by variable sources like solar and wind, researchers in Sweden report the development of artificial intelligence algorithms ...
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Tech Xplore / Grand Theft Auto and AI help team turn dog pics into 3D models
Photographs of dogs could soon be used to help generate 3D models more accurately than ever before—thanks to an award-winning study from the University of Surrey and the famous video game Grand Theft Auto.
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Tech Xplore / Scientists propose anti-fatigue preparation for 3D-printed titanium alloy
A research team led by Profs. Zhang Zhefeng and Zhang Zhenjun from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed an innovative strategy to fabricate an anti-fatigue 3D-printed titanium alloy ...
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Tech Xplore / Online toxicity can only be countered by humans and machines working together, say researchers
Wading through the staggering amount of social media content being produced every second to find the nastiest bits is no task for humans alone.