Researchers at POSTECH identified a new battery degradation mechanism triggered by deep discharging. Avoiding full discharge significantly extends the life of high-nickel lithium-ion batteries. A research team led by Professor Jihyun Hong from…
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Scientists Uncover Game-Changing Fix That Could Extend Battery Life by Over 19 Times
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Q&A: The legendary VFX artist who brought Captain Davy Jones, ‘The Abyss,’ and more to life
Savoring a tub of buttery popcorn while asking yourself how did they do that? can be half the fun of watching big cinematic films like Jurassic Park or…
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Living Materials: The Future of Sustainable Building
How can fungi be used as building construction materials? This is what a recent study published in Cell Reports Physical Science hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how engineered living…
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Less Than 1 Centimeter: Engineers Create World’s Smallest Wireless Flying Robot
The bumblebee-inspired robot is less than a centimeter wide and can hover, change direction, and hit small targets. Like a bumblebee moving from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot developed by engineers at the University of…
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A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons
“We’ve been really pushing on ‘thinking,’” says Jack Rae, a principal research scientist at DeepMind. Such models, which are built to work through problems logically and spend more time arriving at an answer, rose to prominence earlier…
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The Download: The US office that tracks foreign disinformation is being eliminated, and explaining vibe coding
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review.
The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation…
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Smaller Than a Grain of Rice: Engineers Develop World’s Smallest Pacemaker
A tiny device can be inserted using a syringe and then safely dissolves once it is no longer needed. Engineers at Northwestern University have developed an ultra-small pacemaker that is so tiny it can be injected into the body using a syringe….
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These four charts sum up the state of AI and energy
A new report from the International Energy Agency digs into the details of energy and AI, and I think it’s worth looking at some of the data to help clear things up. Here are four charts from the report that sum up the crucial points about AI…
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How a 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics
Afterward, he worked at Komatsu Manufacturing—because, he said, he liked bulldozers. But in 1974, he saw that Tomy was hiring, and he wanted to make toys. “I was told that it was the No. 1 toy company in Japan, so I decided [it was worth a…
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We need targeted policies, not blunt tariffs, to drive “American energy dominance”
MIT Technology Review’s guest opinion series, offering expert commentary on legal, political and regulatory issues related to climate change and clean energy. You can read the rest of the pieces here.
The current 90-day pause on…
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