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Lithium oxide sublimation opens doors for cheaper and quicker battery manufacturing
A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities for manufacturing cheaper, longer-lasting battery materials.
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Energy & Green Tech
Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste
Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new membranes made at the University of Michigan.
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Social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization
It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps.
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Self-healing lithium battery stretches, survives punctures and cuts
A multidisciplinary team at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a stretchable, self-healing lithium battery that ...
Smoothing over rough edges in batteries: Discovery could improve device durability
Texas engineers have discovered a new phenomenon in modern batteries, one that could be used to improve their life cycles.
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Engineering
Ambisonics algorithm helps create rich virtual soundscapes using a domed array of loudspeakers
Surround-sound speakers can immerse you in a multimedia experience, but what if there was a speaker that could completely re-create a three-dimensional soundscape?
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Energy & Green Tech
Dust forecast system helps renewable energy industry manage solar losses
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new forecasting tool called iDust that improves predictions of dust storms, offering significant benefits for solar energy production. The system addresses ...
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Engineering
Concrete in road tunnels decomposes unexpectedly fast
When seawater penetrates concrete in road tunnels, a biofilm is formed that breaks down the concrete. This can lead to high costs and the risk of damage if stone and concrete drop from the tunnel roof. In a new study, led ...
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Computer Sciences
Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language
As we mature from childhood, our vocabulary—as well as the ways we use it—grows, and our experiences become richer, allowing us to think, reason, and interact with others with specificity and intention. Accordingly, our ...
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Business
Flaws found in tools used to enforce online ad standards
A new study finds about 10% of websites that claim to comply with online advertising standards are running ads that violate those standards. The finding tells researchers that the ad-filtering rules browser extensions use ...
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Security
Machine learning method cuts fraud detection costs by generating accurate labels from imbalanced datasets
Fraud is widespread in the United States and increasingly driven by technology. For example, 93% of credit card fraud now involves remote account access, not physical theft. In 2023, fraud losses surpassed $10 billion for ...
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Energy & Green Tech
Corn leads to improved performance in lithium-sulfur batteries
Researchers at Washington State University have demonstrated a way to use corn protein to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, a finding that holds promise for expanding the use of high-energy, lighter-weight ...
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Engineering
Physics reveals the optimal roof ratios for energy efficiency
While serving as a visiting professor in Benevento, outside Naples, Italy, Adrian Bejan noticed something about the local architecture: All the roofs looked the same. With what seemed like too-shallow peaks on smaller, older ...
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Computer Sciences
Over-training large language models may make them harder to fine-tune
A small team of AI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University and Princeton University, all in the U.S., has found that if large language models are over-trained, it might make them ...
Security
Lightweight AI model facilitates high-quality image generation without direct transmission of sensitive data
A new ultra-lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed that assists in generating high-quality images without directly sending sensitive data to servers. This technological advancement paves the way ...
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Machine learning & AI
AI agents poised to take over travel industry
Dreaming of going on vacation but not sure where to go? Increasingly the answer—and how to get there, what to eat and where to stay—will come from advanced AI, rather than your old-school travel agent.
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: Acoustics can help
Neural networks are one typical structure on which artificial intelligence can be based. The term "neural" describes their learning ability, which to some extent mimics the functioning of neurons in our brains. To be able ...
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