MIT system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks. Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also…
Researchers from Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities have successfully tested and recorded Australia’s fastest internet data speed, and that of the world, from a single…
Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at Chalmers and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way…
Topological pump can provide stability for communication technologies. Most technologies today rely on devices that transport energy in the form of light, radio, or mechanical…
Acoustofluidics is the fusion of acoustics and fluid mechanics which provides a contact-free, rapid and effective manipulation of fluids and suspended particles. The applied acoustic…
Researchers at University of Toronto Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress in transforming waste carbon into a commercially…
Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted, a new robot developed with U.S. Army funding has complex locomotion techniques robust enough to allow it…
To Make an Atom-Sized Machine, You Need a Quantum Mechanic Here’s a new chapter in the story of the miniaturization of machines: researchers in a…
How an atomically thin device could become a biotech breakthrough. A technology spun from carbon nanotube sensors discovered 20 years ago by Lawrence Berkeley National…
Inspired by the biomechanics of cheetahs, researchers have developed a new type of soft robot that is capable of moving more quickly on solid surfaces…
Modeling study shows battery reuse systems could be profitable for both electric vehicle companies and grid-scale solar operations. As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity…
Startup Posh has created chat bots that use “conversational memory” to have more natural exchanges. The comedian Bill Burr has said he refuses to call…
Researchers at Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid / UC3M) have patented a new spatial plasma-fueled engine capable of satellite and…
Perovskite crystals could underpin cheap renewable energy. Australian scientists have for the first time produced a new generation of experimental solar energy cells that pass…
Australian scientists flag dramatic improvement to next-gen perovskite R&D. Tests on new designs for next-generation solar cells can now be done in hours instead of…
Higher frequencies mean faster data transfer and more powerful processors – the formula that has been driving the IT industry for years. Technically, however, it…
Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify…
David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, developed a new gallium nitride-based electrical component…