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Tech Xplore / Combining millions of years of evolution with tech wizardry: The cyborg cockroach
From disaster zones to extreme environments, there remain areas difficult for even humans to reliably access. This poses a problem for search-and-rescue operations, research, surveillance, and more. Now, however, a research ...
Tech Xplore / Hybrid battery design: Lithium-hydrogen system offers high energy density
A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has introduced a new chemical battery system which utilizes hydrogen gas as the anode. Their study is published in the Angewandte Chemie International ...
Tech Xplore / Quantifying the 'hydrogen economy': Study finds relatively small, but critical, role for decarbonization
An international team of researchers have quantified the role of the "hydrogen economy" in making our society more sustainable. In a paper in Nature Communications, they present the results of extensive modeling of pathways ...
Tech Xplore / Engineers enable a drone to determine its position in the dark and indoors
In the future, autonomous drones could be used to shuttle inventory between large warehouses. A drone might fly into a semi-dark structure the size of several football fields, zipping along hundreds of identical aisles before ...
Tech Xplore / Computer graphics team makes advances in simulating ink diffusion
Calculating and visualizing a realistic trajectory of ink spreading through water has been a longstanding and enormous challenge for computer graphics and physics researchers.
Tech Xplore / Machine learning transforms mini biohybrid ray design, doubling swimming efficiency
A new study shows an application of machine-learning directed optimization (ML-DO) that efficiently searches for high-performance design configurations in the context of biohybrid robots. Applying a machine learning approach, ...
Tech Xplore / Dual-domain architecture shows almost 40 times higher energy efficiency for running neural networks
Many conventional computer architectures are ill-equipped to meet the computational demands of machine learning-based models. In recent years, some engineers have thus been trying to design alternative architectures that ...
Tech Xplore / Next-gen solar cells now fully recyclable with water-based method
In a study published in Nature, researchers at Linköping University have developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled solar cell has the same ...
Tech Xplore / An alloy adjustment: Controlling metal microstructures results in better 3D printing
Just as a snowflake's intricate structure vanishes when it melts and transforms when it refreezes, the microstructure of metals can change during the 3D printing process, resulting in strengths or weaknesses in the printed ...
Tech Xplore / Engineers develop a fully 3D-printed electrospray engine that can power tiny satellites
An electrospray engine applies an electric field to a conductive liquid, generating a high-speed jet of tiny droplets that can propel a spacecraft. These miniature engines are ideal for small satellites called CubeSats that ...
Tech Xplore / The limitations of language: AI models still lag behind humans in simple text comprehension tests
An international research team led by the URV has analyzed the capabilities of seven artificial intelligence (AI) models in understanding language and compared them with those of humans.
Tech Xplore / Biohybrid hand uses sushi-like rolls of lab-grown human muscle to move objects
A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into ...