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Engineering
Inspired by honeycombs, a low-cost cooling structure lasts over 100 million cycles
As global demand for cooling continues to grow, the urgent need for sustainable refrigeration technologies is becoming increasingly evident. Conventional vapor-compression systems remain energy-intensive, while the refrigerants ...
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Scientists give hard-to-recycle wind turbine blades a second life
From intense UV radiation and extreme temperatures to wind gusts and lightning strikes, wind turbine blades are engineered to withstand some of the harshest conditions. But that durability becomes a problem at the end of ...
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Engineers adapt laser physics trick to deliver heat on demand
When a process needs a burst of heat, a steady supply may not be enough. Storing thermal energy and delivering it quickly are challenges for applications such as sterilization, cleaning or starting up distillation systems. ...
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Newly-developed paint could keep your home cooler and lower energy bills
A special white paint developed at the University of South Florida could offer a new way to cool buildings, reduce energy consumption and lessen reliance on air conditioning. Created in the lab of Distinguished University ...
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Target fabrication achieves new precision through additive manufacturing
What happens when additive manufacturing meets target fabrication engineering? An impossibly small, submillimeter-scale cone that can be manufactured 10 times faster than before, enabling new target configurations for experiments ...
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Energy & Green Tech
New instrument at Brazil's Sirius accelerator enables researchers to observe solar cells in operation
Scientists at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, São Paulo state, developed an instrument for the Sirius particle accelerator that can observe the interior of solar cells on a nanoscale ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Rechargeable battery prototype runs on vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is essential for the body's proper functioning and is found in foods of animal origin. It is produced by certain bacteria that, in addition to being found in nature, are cultivated at industrial facilities for ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Autonomous microfactory turns digital files into DNA for power-free preservation
According to projections, the volume of digital data created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide will reach 175 zettabytes (ZB) in 2026. This is equivalent to the storage capacity of billions of hard drives, such as ...
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Engineering
3D-printed chain mail and more: New method combines thick inks and patterned light for faster, finer structures
For decades, people using 3D printers have faced a tough decision: print quickly, print parts with fine features or print materials that meet performance requirements. Light-based 3D printers are fast and precise but limited ...
Nov 5, 2026
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Computer Sciences
AI learns to predict the world without ever seeing it
Almost every artificial intelligence system we know begins in the same way: it is exposed to vast amounts of information from the real world—books, websites, images and recordings—and trained to identify patterns within it. ...
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Machine learning & AI
Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says
Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago amid the CEO's calls to slow down the technology's pace of improvement, according to an analysis released Thursday by ...
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Engineering
Thin, foldable films offer broadband electromagnetic shielding
A research group from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a method for manufacturing flexible films that can effectively shield electromagnetic waves across ...
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Computer Sciences
New communication and memory tools reduce AI data traffic and response delays
Researchers have developed technologies that reduce communication overhead by transmitting only the data needed for artificial intelligence (AI) analysis and shorten the time users must wait for a response when returning ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Graphene networks help lithium-ion batteries store more energy and deliver more power
Making more efficient, longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries has been a challenge for researchers because adding more mass to the batteries restricts how fast electricity and lithium ions can move. To overcome this challenge, ...
Nov 5, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Our ears reveal our feelings: A step toward machines with super-emotional intelligence?
The muscles of the human ear reveal what and how we feel. This is the finding of Dr. Farah Corona-Strauss and Sophie Bonnaire, researchers at the Systems Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Unit in Saarbrücken and Homburg. Their ...
Nov 5, 2026
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Business
Some AI agents use personal information to upsell wealthier individuals
Increasingly, people are asking personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to recommend goods and services to purchase, such as flights and health insurance. ...
Nov 5, 2026
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Hardware
Let there be light—novel AI framework runs on optical hardware
Artificial intelligence is increasingly pervasive and capable but is also very hungry for power. Researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, have developed a new approach to building physics-based AI—systems ...
Nov 5, 2026
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