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Engineering
Upcycled battery materials roughly double cell cycle life in tests
A new recycling approach developed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers could help make battery waste a valuable source of high-performance materials. In a study published in Advanced Energy Materials, a team ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Decarbonization in civil aviation: Transition strategies still don't go far enough
As the effects of climate change and the associated risks are increasingly being felt, several organizations have developed roadmaps that outline potential steps toward carbon neutrality in the aviation sector. These strategies ...
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Can AI help discover new food physics? Researchers pair AI with human expertise
Information about food properties that determine quality, safety and sensory characteristics is critical for food product development and processing design, but it is spread across thousands of scientific papers written over ...
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Self-cooling film for thermal management in AI-era electronic devices
A research team led by professor Seong Kyun Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a "passive cooling film material" that uses moisture in the air to cool electronic devices—no water or electricity ...
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AI agents get better by anticipating errors in their own software changes
Some artificial intelligence agents can modify the programs and instructions governing their own work, with the goal of improving performance. These changes, however, can introduce errors, while testing unsuccessful modifications ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mini brain organoids 'read' braille in key step toward biohybrid computing
Could computers include tiny brain organoids one day? The human brain is an incredibly energy-efficient computer, and silicon processors that try to imitate it achieve huge energy savings over traditional processors. Now ...
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Computer Sciences
LLMs show a human-like double standard when judging others' reasoning
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize texts and generate content ...
Engineering
Chemical fine-tuning lifts perovskite LEDs to 37% efficiency
Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Security
New cyber threat to water systems exposes limits of encryption
University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Fingerprint authentication uses ultrasound without storing biometric information as digital data
A research team has developed a new biometric authentication technology that can identify users without storing their fingerprint information as digital data. The study is published in Nature Sensors.
Oct 15, 2026
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Business
Human learning is an underestimated factor in the success of human–AI teams
Human–AI collaboration is widely seen as the work model of the future: The expectation is that together, humans and AI will be more productive than either working alone. Yet the research to date seemed to tell a different ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Nanoscale coating boosts hydrogen cell efficiency and durability by improving internal contact
A research team led by professor Wonyoung Lee of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a technology that addresses interfacial contact resistance, a key factor limiting the performance ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Hardware
Tiny chip uses ultrasound-powered microbubbles to steer fluid flow in real time
Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are unwieldy and unpredictable because ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Trading power reductions could reduce data center strain on energy grid
Thanks to the exponential rise of AI, the rapid construction of large, gigawatt-gobbling data centers across the country has stoked concerns about how the power grid will hold up under this additional strain.
Oct 15, 2026
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Computer Sciences
AI agents develop their own 'artificial natural language' to communicate about complex data
Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Engineering
Greener chemistry brings low-toxicity perovskite solar cells closer to production
Solar panels that can be coated onto thin, flexible surfaces could one day be made the way newspapers are printed, at room temperature and without the toxic chemicals the process has relied on, claim researchers from the ...
Oct 15, 2026
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