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Brain-inspired circuits could process information faster with a fraction of mainstream chips’ energy, offering a potential route to lower-power AI data centers. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Building brain-inspired semiconductor chips for smarter, greener data centers

With artificial intelligence (AI) data centers consuming electricity at a growing rate, identifying a sustainable computing solution to offset these massive community and environmental disruptors is...

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A library of 28 sodium-ion battery materials could help AI identify promising cathodes before lab testing—but it remains too small for reliable predictions. @uniofsurrey techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

New materials library could help AI design better sodium-ion batteries

The start of a new battery materials library could pave the way for future AI models to help scientists design sodium-ion batteries that charge faster, last longer and store more energy, according to...

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Blue phosphorescent OLED lifetimes can be estimated from tiny brightness shifts under a magnetic field—an early indicator before operating tests lasting tens to hundreds of hours. @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Magnetic field tests predict blue OLED lifetimes from tiny brightness changes

Could a magnetic field be used to identify in advance which OLEDs will keep smartphone and TV screens bright the longest? A KAIST research team has developed a technique that predicts OLED lifetime...

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Ultrasound guides liquid horizontally through midair without solid walls—and can dispense it one drop at a time. @helsinkiuni @PNASNews techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Ultrasound creates a tube that guides matter through the air

A small stream of liquid flows quietly in midair, horizontally, as if inside an invisible tube. Nothing touches it. About 5 centimeters (2 inches) away, a cylinder lined with hundreds of tiny...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 21

A hidden trigger in a compromised AI planner redirected a robot’s mock cutting from plastic fruit to a model hand, demonstrating how altered instructions could prompt dangerous actions. @binghamtonu @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google Gemini are increasingly being used to help robots perform tasks, but what if LLMs could be exploited to turn helpful...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 20

Background static carried wireless data without an actively generated radio signal—and adjustments to the setup boosted the data transfer rate 100-fold. @PNASNews techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Background static can carry wireless data without an actively generated radio signal

Stanford researchers recently revealed how a seemingly physics-defying wireless communication technology works. The new technology, called thermal noise communication, harnesses background static...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 20

Four AI agents defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon without human intervention after 605 deaths and more than 27 hours of play, though the single attempt cannot establish reliability. @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI slays the dragon as four agents conquer Minecraft without human intervention

Minecraft is one of the world's most popular video games, where players explore, gather resources, craft items and try to survive in a virtual universe constructed of 3D cubes that represent differ...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 20

A single crystalline compound releases hydrogen and methane at 80–110°C without oxygen, delivering the two fuels in stages—with recharging still untested. @ScienceAdvances techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

A little heat releases two fuels from a single crystalline compound

A team of researchers in India has developed a new compound capable of releasing both hydrogen and methane when heated at low temperatures. In their new study, published in Science Advances, the...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 20

Training on junk social posts made language models skip reasoning steps in tests of four models, and further training with higher-quality data did not easily restore performance. @tamu @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

When LLMs are trained on frivolous online content, they can get brain rot like humans do

As humans and AI models roam the internet, they encounter lots of junk: clickbait headlines, misinformation, hashtags. Research by Dr. Zhengzhong Tu and his colleagues indicates that this junk-filled...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 19

Apps, websites and cloud services account for nearly triple their previous share of reported car security flaws—putting systems that hold drivers’ location data in focus. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Your car's weakest spot may not be in the car

A car is a computer on wheels. It communicates with the car manufacturer's cloud services, the driver's phone and charging stations, and when children stream movies in the back seat, data travels...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 19

More than half of 20,000 AI-generated stories featured a lighthouse—a recurring setting across four language models, despite its rarity in their training stories. @cornell @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Who is Elias the lighthouse keeper? AI fiction tells the same old story

Like a hack writer or a friend rehashing their glory days over and over, artificial intelligence tends to tell the same old story. For AI agents instructed to write fiction, that tale usually...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 19

AI restored cloud-covered satellite images more accurately than task-specific models in public-dataset tests, matching reference images more closely in brightness, color and structure. @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI that reconstructs cloud-covered ground in satellite images with photo-like clarity

Satellite images of the Earth are not always easy to use. Clouds can block the view of the ground, and images captured with some methods look different from ordinary photographs, which makes them...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 19

No aviation decarbonization plan assessed through 2050 meets all its allocated environmental budgets: climate and biosphere integrity budgets are exceeded in every scenario. @INRAE_Intl @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Decarbonization in civil aviation: Transition strategies still don't go far enough

As the effects of climate change and the associated risks are increasingly being felt, several organizations have developed roadmaps that outline potential steps toward carbon neutrality in the...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 18

Pouch cells made with upcycled battery electrodes lasted roughly twice as many cycles as commercial-material counterparts in tests, retaining 70% of their capacity after 2,590 cycles. @wpi techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Upcycled battery materials roughly double cell cycle life in tests

A new recycling approach developed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers could help make battery waste a valuable source of high-performance materials. In a study published in Advanced...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 18

Switching between English and Mandarin shifted chatbots’ personality-test scores, with ChatGPT-4o scoring higher on open-mindedness in English and DeepSeek-V3 higher in Mandarin. @RSocPublishing @PNASNexus techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Switching languages can change a chatbot's personality test results

Ask an AI chatbot to complete a personality questionnaire in English, then give it the Mandarin version, and its answers paint a different picture. In tests of five systems, switching languages...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 18

Engineered crystal defects strengthened two metal alloys without changing their chemistry, boosting resistance to stress and gradual warping at high temperatures. @OhioState @sciencemagazine techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Flaws become reinforcements: Engineered crystal defects strengthen metals without changing their...

Scientists have found a way to use defects in crystals to engineer stronger materials, according to a new study.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 18

Silicon was found inside TRISO nuclear fuel before reactor use, showing its presence cannot automatically be attributed to migration from a protective coating during operation. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Silicon found inside nuclear fuel before it ever entered a reactor

Samantha Gateman and her team at Western University use highly localized electrochemical techniques to see how corrosion starts and evolves at the microscopic level.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 17

A passive film cut device surface temperatures by up to 18.2°C for more than 12 hours, using airborne moisture without supplied water or electricity. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Self-cooling film for thermal management in AI-era electronic devices

A research team led by professor Seong Kyun Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a "passive cooling film material" that uses moisture in the air to cool electronic...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 17

Ultrasound-powered microbubbles steer fluid flow in real time on a chip, with just five bubbles arranged in an L directing the flow into a curve. @cornell @ScienceAdvances techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Tiny chip uses ultrasound-powered microbubbles to steer fluid flow in real time

Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 17

EmArm can distinguish touch points as close as 18.2 mm apart, versus a typical 30–50 mm for human arm skin, with tactile sensing across its upper and lower arms. @hkust techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Team develops embodied robotic arm 'EmArm' with human-like touch sensing

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an Embodied Sensorimotor Robotic Arm (EmArm) capable of whole-arm tactile sensing and adaptive manipulati...

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