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Tech Xplore / What will it take for China to reach carbon neutrality by 2060?
To become carbon neutral by 2060, as mandated by President Xi Jinping, China will have to build eight to 10 times more wind and solar power installations than currently exist in the country. Reaching carbon neutrality will ...
Tech Xplore / Human-like real-time sketching by a humanoid robot
The rapid advancement of deep learning algorithms and generative models has enabled the automated production of increasingly striking AI-generated artistic content. Most of this AI-generated art, however, is created by algorithms ...
Tech Xplore / An inchworm-inspired robot with enhanced transport capabilities
Soft robots inspired by animals can help to tackle real-world problems in efficient and innovative ways. Roboticists have been working to continuously broaden and improve these robots' capabilities, as this could open new ...
Tech Xplore / A type of cyberattack that could set your smartphone on fire using its wireless charger
A team of security experts at the University of Florida working with security audit company CertiK has found that a certain class of cyberattacks could cause a smartphone to catch fire via its wireless charger. The team has ...
Tech Xplore / Engineers 3D print the electromagnets at the heart of many electronics
Imagine being able to build an entire dialysis machine using nothing more than a 3D printer.
Tech Xplore / Mixed-dimensional transistors enable high-performance multifunctional electronic devices
The downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) ...
Tech Xplore / A DVD-sized disk that can store 1 million movies
A team of photonic engineers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed a new type of optical DVD that is capable of holding up to a petabyte of data. The group used a new material to coat the DVDs and new ...
Tech Xplore / Method identified to double computer processing speeds
Imagine doubling the processing power of your smartphone, tablet, personal computer, or server using the existing hardware already in these devices.
Tech Xplore / World's first real-time wearable human emotion recognition technology developed
A technology that can recognize human emotions in real time has been developed by Professor Jiyun Kim and his research team in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at UNIST. This innovative technology is poised ...
Tech Xplore / Amorphous solar cells with FIDO technology are more efficient, stable and lightweight
A group led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has created a material based on fullerene indanones (FIDO), which promises to improve the durability of next-generation solar cells. Durability has been one of the ...
Tech Xplore / Q&A: ChatGPT acts more altruistically, cooperatively than humans
Modern artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, is capable of mimicking human behaviors, but the former has more positive outcomes such as cooperation, altruism, trust and reciprocity.
Tech Xplore / New structural insights could lead to mechanical enhancement in alloys
A new class of metallic materials with potential applications in airplane turbines, nuclear reactors and equipment for space exploration can withstand extreme temperatures and resist fractures, but scientists haven't understood ...