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Engineering
Exploring sodium batteries down to the atom
Understanding how battery components work at the molecular or atomic levels can help scientists create faster-charging, more powerful, longer-lived storage devices. But the electron microscopes powerful enough to give this ...
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Energy & Green Tech
New coating approach aligns molecules upright to boost organic solar cell efficiency
Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries worldwide. While most cells on the market today are primarily made of silicon, energy engineers have been exploring the ...
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Targeted data selection could roughly triple AI fine-tuning speed
Can AI fine-tuning that once took 10 hours be completed in just three hours? KAIST researchers have developed a technology that selects the most useful training data and distributes it evenly across multiple GPUs.
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Redesigning batteries for ultrafast-charging EVs
It's hard to ignore the difference: You can fill a car's tank with gas in mere minutes. Charging the battery of an electric vehicle (EV) can take 30 minutes or more.
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Tracing the online networks behind AI-generated nude images
As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close this week, one University of Florida researcher is examining the roots of nudification apps, online platforms that use AI to turn images of clothed people—easily and convincingly—into ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Robot platform combines AI and rapid imaging to improve perovskite solar cell fabrication
Solar cells generate electricity by absorbing sunlight in a thin layer of perovskite, a light-absorbing material. This layer is made with a liquid solution that dries and crystallizes into a solid film, but small changes ...
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Robotics
Humanoid AI connects walking and object handling without demonstrations of complete task sequences
A humanoid AI system has been developed that learns jointly from separately collected locomotion and object-manipulation data to perform multiple stages of a task in sequence.
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Robotics
Laden with eggs, robots race up sacred Chinese mountain
Dozens of robots took on more than 3,000 steps up one of China's most famous peaks Monday, carrying eggs and watermelons in a race organizers billed as a test of real-world machine endurance, state media showed.
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Business
Future-proof security system protects Bitcoin Lightning Network from quantum attacks
Nearly all personal information is stored electronically in our digital age. This sensitive data is protected by digital keys unique to each device that would take today's computers billions of years to crack through brute-force ...
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Internet
How to prepare your online life for your death
What happens to all of your online accounts—credit cards, merchants, news subscriptions, social media, streaming services—after you die? How will your heirs know how to access these accounts or understand what you want done ...
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Engineering
Infrared-transparent aerogel boosts performance of subambient daytime radiative cooling materials by up to 5.2°C
As global warming continues, people tend to switch on fans or air conditioners during hot weather. But the more we use electrical appliances, the more energy we consume and carbon dioxide we produce. With continuous breakthroughs ...
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Engineering
Heated mirror reveals hidden 3D patterns in rising air near a wall
Heat transfer from a heated surface depends partly on the thin layer of air that warms and rises beside it. As this natural convection boundary layer develops, its flow can change from orderly patterns to turbulence, influencing ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Electrolyte redesign unlocks tin's full charge capacity for flow batteries
Tin is able to exchange four electrons as it changes between dissolved ions and solid metal, but acidic tin batteries commonly use only a two-electron reaction, leaving half that potential charge out of reach. Now, researchers ...
Security
What to know about the $6.3B hack on Binance, likely the biggest-ever crypto theft
Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than $6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Blockchain firms have pointed to the attack coming ...
Oct 31, 2026
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Robotics
Armored caterpillars offer robot designers lessons in crossing slippery glass
Animals have long been one of the primary sources of inspiration for robotics researchers. This is because they rely on sophisticated biological mechanisms and locomotion strategies that could be artificially reproduced in ...
Engineering
Mystery of 60-second fluctuations in power grids solved
TenneT Germany, the largest transmission system operator in Germany, has observed over several years that the frequency in the European power grid dips briefly every 60 seconds. While these deviations were not critical to ...
Oct 30, 2026
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Robotics
Robot moth grows a UV sensor by using an artificial circulatory system
A moth-shaped robot used an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical building blocks through its body and grow a light sensor where UV light struck.
Oct 30, 2026
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