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Energy & Green Tech
Improving high-temperature stability of perovskite solar cells
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained attention for their high power-conversion efficiencies and low-cost solution processing. However, ensuring their stability at high temperatures has been a challenge, as the points ...
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Engineering
New material could hold key to reducing energy consumption in computers and electronics
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has, for the first time, synthesized a thin film of a unique topological semimetal material that has the potential to generate more computing power and memory storage while using ...
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Computer Sciences
Neuralangelo: Unleashing the digital Michelangelo from your smartphone
Until recently, 3D surface reconstruction has been a relatively slow, painstaking process involving significant trial and error and manual input. But what if you could take a video of an object or scene with your smartphone ...
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Robotics
Planetary analog environments explored by a team of legged robots
On the moon, there are raw materials that humanity could one day mine and use. Various space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA), are already planning missions to better explore Earth's satellite and find minerals. ...
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Robotics
Pump powers soft robots, makes cocktails and opens the door for soft robotic applications
The hottest drink of the summer may be the SEAS-colada. Here's what you need to make it: gin, pineapple juice, coconut milk and a dielectric elastomer actuator-based soft peristaltic pump. Unfortunately, the last component ...
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Computer Sciences
Making algorithms used in AI more human-like: Scientists use fMRI to test ideas about complex decision-making
How does the human brain navigate complex circumstances—say, driving through Harvard Square traffic at 5 p.m.?
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Software
Software creates entirely new views from existing video
Filmmakers may soon be able to stabilize shaky video, change viewpoints and create freeze-frame, zoom and slow-motion effects—without shooting any new footage—thanks to an algorithm developed by researchers at Cornell ...
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Super flexible composite semiconductors for next-gen printed displays
Scientists at the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have developed a super flexible, composite semiconductor material that may have applications in next-generation flexible or curved ...
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Business
Need to get Plan B or an HIV test online? Facebook may know about it
Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS' website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and ...
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Business
Data scientists predict stock returns with AI and online news
For years, the financial press has helped inform investors of all stripes. Cornell researchers have discovered it can also inform the algorithm behind a new financial predicting model.
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Machine learning & AI
Generative AI 'fools' scientists with artificial data, bringing automated data analysis closer
The same AI technology used to mimic human art can now synthesize artificial scientific data, advancing efforts toward fully automated data analysis.
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Internet
Google launches ChatGPT rival Bard in EU, Brazil
Google launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union and several more nations on Thursday, entering a key market in its race against Microsoft-backed ChatGPT after a delay over data privacy concerns.
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Energy & Green Tech
New oxychloride solid-state electrolyte for lithium batteries shows good performance, low cost
A research team led by Prof. Ma Cheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a new type of solid-state electrolyte. The study was published in ...
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Engineering
Researcher turns one of the basic rules of construction upside down
An Aston University researcher has turned one of the basic rules of construction on its head. For centuries a hanging chain has been used as an example to explain how masonry arches stand.
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