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 ... 16 hours ago 0 54
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 ... 18 hours ago 0 60
Research lays groundwork for future high-performance alternatives to silicon in microelectronics Researchers in the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion in Israel have demonstrated control over an emerging material, which they consider as a possible future alternative ... 18 hours ago 0 19
Deepfake videos prompt false memories of films in half of participants In a new study, deepfake video clips of movie remakes that don't actually exist prompted participants to falsely remember the films—but simple text descriptions of the fake movies prompted similar false memory rates. Gillian ... 18 hours ago 0 33
Titanium oxide material lets sunlight drive green hydrogen production Clean energy plans, including the U.S. Infrastructure Investment Act's "Clean Hydrogen Road Map," are counting on hydrogen as a fuel of the future. But current hydrogen separation technology is still falling short of efficiency ... 20 hours ago 0 23
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 ... 20 hours ago 0 28
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. ... 20 hours ago 0 26
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 ... 20 hours ago 0 36
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.? 20 hours ago 0 27
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 ... 20 hours ago 0 23
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 ... 22 hours ago 0 18
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 ... 15 hours ago 0 23
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. 16 hours ago 0 15
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. 17 hours ago 0 80
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. 20 hours ago 0 1
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 ... 19 hours ago 0 1
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. 19 hours ago 0 38
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Robotics Could AI-powered robot 'companions' combat human loneliness? Companion robots enhanced with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate the loneliness epidemic, suggests a new report from researchers at Auckland, Duke, and Cornell Universities. Jul 13, 2023 0 67
Engineering Thermal cloak passively keeps electric vehicles cool in the summer and warm in the winter When an electric vehicle is parked outside, its temperature can swing wildly from day to night and season to season, which can lead to deterioration of the battery. To dampen these fluctuations and extend the battery's lifespan, ... Jul 13, 2023 0 30
Energy & Green Tech A scalable method to prelithiate anodes for lithium-ion batteries Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), rechargeable batteries that store energy via the reversible reduction of lithium ions, are used to power countless devices and technologies, ranging from laptops and smartphones to electric cars. ... Jul 12, 2023 feature 0 47
Engineering The ground is deforming, and buildings aren't ready: Infrastructure study There is a "silent hazard" lurking underneath our major global cities, and our buildings were not designed to handle it. Jul 12, 2023 0 8
Automotive A large dataset to train machine learning models for aerial vehicle design Designing reliable aircraft can be both challenging and time-consuming, as it often entails several steps and analyses. Deep learning models could potentially help to speed up aircraft design and deployment, helping developers ... Jul 10, 2023 feature 0 56
Computer Sciences Netflix says its magenta approach beats green screen Green screen technology has been around nearly a century. Some 45 million moviegoers were mesmerized by the special effects of "The Wizard of Oz" when it hit theaters in 1939. The magical scenes in Emerald City were the first ... Jul 10, 2023 report 0 49
Engineering Next-generation flow battery design sets records A common food and medicine additive has shown it can boost the capacity and longevity of a next-generation flow battery design in a record-setting experiment. Jul 10, 2023 0 112
Computer Sciences Intel reports high-rendering graphics with low-power GPUs Setting its sights on evolving graphics processing units in a growing universe of generative AI, Intel announced the release of several papers outlining efforts it is pursuing in what observers say is a multibillion-dollar ... Jul 10, 2023 report 0 78
Internet Researchers devise algorithm to break through 'search bubbles' When looking for a new type of book, movie, or restaurant, your search may suggest a title or venue you've already purchased or experienced. This is because the artificial intelligence tools many companies rely on push users ... Jul 10, 2023 0 33
Business Unused renewable energy an option for powering NFT trade, finds new research Unused solar, wind, and hydroelectric power in the U.S. could support the exponential growth of transactions involving non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Cornell Engineering researchers have found. Jul 10, 2023 0 43
Engineering Stretchy color-changing display points to future of wearable screens Imagine a wearable patch that tracks your vital signs through changes in the color display, or shipping labels that light up to indicate changes in temperature or sterility of food items. Jul 10, 2023 0 84
Electronics & Semiconductors 2D metal contacts stop transistor leakage currents in their tracks Computers, despite all their apparent complexity, are basically just a large number of electronic switches, flicking on and off in the right order to process digital information. Semiconductor technology has made these switches ... Jul 10, 2023 0 156
Engineering Making headway in precision therapeutics with novel fully organic bioelectronic device As researchers make major advances in medical care, they are also discovering that the efficacy of these treatments can be enhanced by individualized approaches. Therefore, clinicians increasingly need methods that can both ... Jul 10, 2023 0 8
Computer Sciences Advancing toward optimal sampling: The zenith of data analysis The world witnessed a monumental face-off between human intelligence and artificial intelligence in March 2016. The computer program AlphaGo honed its skills from a substantial database and emerged victorious against a human ... Jul 10, 2023 0 29
Machine learning & AI ChatGPT dragged to US court over AI copyright US comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors have sued Open AI over copyright infringement in the latest pushback by creatives since the company's release of ChatGPT took the world by storm. Jul 10, 2023 0 30
Computer Sciences Game-playing automaton acts like an 'irrational' human Humans make lots of irrational decisions in predictable ways, but what if we're all just doing our best within the limits of our abilities? Jul 10, 2023 0 35
Engineering Navigating the future of underwater geolocalization: How polarization patterns enable new technology University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a novel method for underwater geolocalization using deep neural networks that have been trained on 10 million polarization-sensitive images collected from ... Jul 10, 2023 0 139
Energy & Green Tech Startup bets on kitesurf to blow away shipping pollution Inspired by kitesurfing, French firms want to deploy the same wind technology to propel everything from yachts to cargo ships in order to cut the shipping industry's massive carbon footprint. Jul 9, 2023 0 61
Computer Sciences A new neural machine code to program reservoir computers Reservoir computing is a promising computational framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which essentially maps input data onto a high-dimensional computational space, keeping some parameters of artificial neural ... Jul 7, 2023 feature 0 100
Engineering Two methods for increasing efficiency of solar cells by making silicon and perovskite work together better Two teams of solar-power engineers, one led by a large group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, the other led by a group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has found two ways to improve ... Jul 7, 2023 report 0 112
