Technology and Engineering
Hybrid A* and Dynamic Window Method Steers Robots Past Obstacles
A new hierarchical framework combining an obstacle-aware A* algorithm, B-spline smoothing, and fuzzy-adaptive dynamic window control lifts mobile robot obstacle...
Plastic Fluff That Eats Plastic: Recycled Polymer Filters Snare Microplastics and Then Get a Second Job
Researchers at the University of Palermo have created porous filters from recycled polypropylene and PET that capture over 96 percent...
Lead-Free Halide Crystals Switch Color on Command, Revealing Hidden Moisture Damage
Researchers have engineered a lead-free zero-dimensional metal halide whose upconversion emission switches from green to red in humid air only...
Tiny Doses of Graphene Give Classic Solar Polymer a Surprising Efficiency Boost
Korean researchers found that adding just 0.005 weight percent graphene nanosheets to P3HT:PCBM organic solar cells boosts power conversion efficiency...
Simple Polymer Trick Boosts Silicon-Perovskite Photodetector Performance 170-Fold
By simply spin-coating a PEDOT:PSS interlayer twice instead of once, researchers boosted the photocurrent of a silicon-perovskite photodetector more than...
Why Robots Creeping Up Behind You Feel Faster Than They Really Are
A Japanese study finds that 92 percent of people perceive objects approaching from behind as moving faster than identical frontal...
Bone-Eating Cells Sabotage the Brain’s Drainage System to Help Tumors Invade the Dura
A new Nature study shows that tumor-recruited osteoclasts secrete angiopoietin-2 to destroy meningeal lymphatic vessels in dural metastasis, and that...
New AI Recommender Fuses Five Signals to Explain Why You Liked It
Researchers at the Vellore Institute of Technology have built NEXUS-Rec, a five-signal neural recommender that outperforms strong baselines on MovieLens...
Hybrid AI System Brings Hard Data and Human Feeling Into Territorial Decisions
Researchers have built a retrieval-augmented AI system that combines objective territorial indicators with citizens' subjective perceptions to support well-being decisions...
Why AI Assurance Is Failing in the Real World and How to Fix It
A new review in Artificial Intelligence Review finds that global AI assurance frameworks remain fragmented and under-specified, proposing five cross-cutting...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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