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April 17, 2025

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Farm Robot Autonomously Navigates, Harvests Among Raised Beds

Apr. 16, 2025 — A researcher has developed an autonomous driving algorithm for agricultural robots used for greenhouse cultivation and other farm ...

Study Finds Dramatic Boost in Air Quality from Electrifying Railways

Apr. 16, 2025 — Switching from diesel to electric trains dramatically improved the air quality aboard the San Francisco Bay Area's Caltrain commuter rail line, reducing riders' exposure to the carcinogen black carbon by an average of 89%, finds a new study. The ...

Global EV Adoption Fails to Cut CO2

Apr. 10, 2025 — The transition to electric vehicles won't reduce carbon emissions unless countries clean up their electricity ...

Government Urged to Tackle Inequality in 'Low-Carbon Tech' Like Solar Panels and Electric Cars

Apr. 11, 2025 — The UK government needs to go beyond offering subsidies for low-carbon technologies (LCTs) like electric cars and solar panels for energy and heating, if it is to meet its net-zero targets by 2050, a ...

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Cooler Faster Better: Engineers Uncover a New Way to Stop Electronics from Overheating

Apr. 14, 2025 — Engineers discovered a way to move heat ultrafast using crystal waves, offering a breakthrough in cooling advanced ...

A Fluid Battery That Can Take Any Shape

Apr. 11, 2025 — Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new ...

Amplifier With Tenfold Bandwidth Opens Up for Super Lasers

Apr. 9, 2025 — The rapidly increasing data traffic is placing ever greater demands on the capacity of communication systems. A research team now introduces a new amplifier that enables the transmission of ten times ...

Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time

Apr. 8, 2025 — A new way to watch catalytic reactions happen at the molecular level in real time could lead to better fundamental understanding and planning of the important reactions used in countless ...

Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver

Apr. 8, 2025 — A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera

Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with ...

Runaway Battery Improves Safety

Apr. 3, 2025 — Overheating batteries are a serious risk, in the worst cases leading to fires and explosion. A team has now developed a simple, cost-effective method to test the safety of lithium-ion batteries, ...

Physicists Discover a Copper-Free High-Temperature Superconducting Oxide

Mar. 27, 2025 — Engineers have designed and synthesized a groundbreaking new material -- a copper-free superconducting oxide -- capable of superconducting at approximately 40 Kelvin, or about minus 233 degrees ...

A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin

Mar. 27, 2025 — Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an ...

E-Scooter Crashes Mainly Caused by Reckless Driving

Mar. 25, 2025 — Crashes on electric scooters are mostly due to the behavior of the riders, with one-handed steering and riding in a group being some of the largest risk factors. The researchers are also concerned ...

These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer

Mar. 25, 2025 — This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one ...

Good Vibrations: Scientists Discover a Groundbreaking Method for Exciting Phonon-Polaritons

Mar. 19, 2025 — Newly published research demonstrates a novel way of generating phonon-polaritons by making electrons collide with crystal lattice structures. The discovery paves the way for cheaper, smaller ...

New Platform Lets Anyone Rapidly Prototype Large, Sturdy Interactive Structures

Mar. 18, 2025 — A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...

Lords of the Molecular Rings: An Innovative Shortcut to High-Performance Organic Materials

Mar. 18, 2025 — Scientists have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped molecular structures with immense potential in material science. ...

Scientists Tune in to Rhombohedral Graphene's Potential

Mar. 17, 2025 — Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

Spinning, Twisted Light Could Power Next-Generation Electronics

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics. The researchers have created an organic ...

Breakthrough Nano-Spring Technology Boosts Battery Durability and Energy Density

Mar. 13, 2025 — Scientists improved battery durability and energy density with a nano-spring ...

Scientists Discover Smart Way to Generate Energy With Tiny Beads

Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new method to generate electricity using small plastic beads. By placing these beads close together and bringing them into contact, they generate more electricity than ...

'Nanodot' Control Could Fine-Tune Light for Sharper Displays, Quantum Computing

Mar. 10, 2025 — Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in two-dimensional materials could lead to remarkably high-resolution monitors and ...

Super Sapphire Resists Scratches, Glare, Fog and Dust

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon sapphire, a material that most of us think of as just a pretty ...

New 'One-Pot' Technique a Breakthrough for Material Synthesis

Mar. 6, 2025 — A new technique builds inorganic and polymer battery electrolytes at the same time, in the same vessel. This 'one-pot' in-situ method creates a controlled, homogeneous blend, pairing the ...

Building Bridges in Physics

Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers show that Cartan's First Structure Equation, which relates to edge and screw dislocations in crystal lattices, can be recast in the same form as a basic mathematical formula that ...

Scientists Use AI to Better Understand Nanoparticles

Mar. 3, 2025 — A team of scientists has developed a method to illuminate the dynamic behavior of nanoparticles, which are foundational components in the creation of pharmaceuticals, electronics, and industrial and ...

Breaking the Surface: How Damage Reshapes Ripples in Graphene

Mar. 3, 2025 — Scientists discover how defects in the surface of two-dimensional sheets alter ripple effects, even freezing the sheet's motion ...

Researchers Develop Efficient Lithium Extraction Method, Setting Stage for Sustainable EV Battery Supply Chains

Feb. 28, 2025 — In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...

Unraveling How a 'Magnetic Twist' Induces One-Way Electric Flow

Feb. 27, 2025 — A twist you'll never see coming: a breakthrough in understanding the relationship between chirality and electric flow at a microscopic level may help us develop chiral information ...

Material's 'Incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics

Feb. 26, 2025 — Scientists have harnessed a unique property called incipient ferroelectricity to create a new type of computer memory that could revolutionize how electronic devices work, such as using much less ...

Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of ...

Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy

Feb. 25, 2025 — Heteroepitaxial growth technology has made it possible to create larger diamond substrates, opening new opportunities for industrial-scale production of diamond quantum sensors. A research team has ...

Scientists Design Battery That Runs on Atomic Waste

Feb. 25, 2025 — Researchers have developed a battery that can convert nuclear energy into electricity via light emission, a study ...