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Engineering

By shaping and shrinking light, engineers alter a material's magnetic properties

A new approach that uses light to switch the magnetic states of a material could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient data storage. Engineers at the University of California San Diego published their findings ...

3 hours ago

Hardware

AI hardware design could filter out irrelevant visual data to reduce energy use

When we read a car's license plate, we tend to focus on the numbers and letters, paying little attention to the surrounding buildings or sky. An artificial-intelligence (AI) system, however, may still process those surrounding ...

5 hours ago

The architect as gatherer—how salvaged materials could guide building designs

In a traditional architectural project, the process often begins with an idea or a sketch. Material choices come later, when it is time to decide on a facade, floors or windows. But if buildings are to make greater use of ...

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Sunlight and indoor LEDs recharge washable filter that maintains performance for months

Scientists have developed an air purifier charged by sunlight and indoor LED lights, potentially offering an inexpensive, lower-maintenance alternative to standard filtration systems that protect users from pollutants and ...

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Mkcheck2: A highly efficient and accurate approach for build dependency verification

Before users can interact with computer software, its source code must be converted into executable binaries and software packages, a task handled by specialized tools known as build systems. Build systems are a fundamental ...

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Energy & Green Tech

Unlocking sulfur's third electron boosts lithium-sulfur battery voltage and capacity

While lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide, energy engineers have been testing various alternatives with different underlying chemistries. These include lithium-sulfur ...

Sep 24, 2026

Engineering

Engineers connect health wearables and implants using the body as the network

Using the human body to transmit signals, Georgia Tech engineers have created a wireless networking system that allows tiny implantable sensors and actuators to communicate with each other and with wearable devices. Their ...

Sep 24, 2026

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Technology news

Making AI more trustworthy by making it red-flag its own doubtful answers

Artificial intelligence models can give users the wrong answer and do so with great confidence. They can also hedge and warn that they are unsure—even when they get the answer right.

Sep 24, 2026

Meta bets big on wearable AI, new AI agent as Zuckerberg pushes back against AI doom

Meta is going all in on a consumer-friendly AI agent and pushing forward with AI-powered wearable devices during a moment in the industry when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged it is a "wild time to be building."

Sep 24, 2026

Chinese auto companies race ahead on EV technology, achieving 5-minute ultrafast charging

Chinese electric vehicles' ultrafast charging is only getting faster.

Sep 24, 2026

New robotic hand can walk, press keys and move objects on its own

For many of us, the last—and only—time we've seen a walking hand was Thing in "The Addams Family" movies or TV series. Now there's another. Engineers from the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have adapted an off-the-shelf ...

Sep 23, 2026 report

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Humanoid robots navigate narrow gaps and obstacles with whole-body AI control

Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, could assist people in homes, offices, health care facilities, public spaces and various other environments. Before they can be reliably deployed in these ...

Sep 23, 2026 feature

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Tiny robot can precisely control its jump height

As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot. Hopping, a popular form of locomotion in the insect and amphibian worlds, is nearly two orders of magnitude ...

Sep 23, 2026

Robot dog runs a marathon on a single battery charge

A four-legged robot that can complete a marathon on a single battery charge has been demonstrated by a team from KAIST. The robot, which completed the Sangju Marathon in South Korea in 4 hours and 19 minutes alongside human ...

Sep 23, 2026

Anthropic, OpenAI release cheaper AI even as safety fears grow

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday released new, cheaper artificial intelligence models within hours of each other, days after the heads of both companies called for a slowdown in AI development.

Sep 23, 2026

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Tiny OLED pixels can be manufactured like microchips using chemical-resistant polymers

Screens are becoming smaller and sharper. This can be seen, for example, in augmented reality glasses and the electronic viewfinders of cameras, some of which have a screen diagonal of less than 1 centimeter (0.4 inches).

Sep 23, 2026

Blockchain-inspired DNA storage codec recovers data from heavily damaged sequences

A research team at the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), led by professor Ruibang Luo of the School of Computing and Data Science and professor Can Li of the Department of Electrical and Computer ...

Sep 23, 2026