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Laser pulses track extreme airflow near test surfaces without disturbing it, measuring turbulence in ground tests that simulate the intense conditions of spacecraft reentry. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Laser pulses can track extreme airflow in tests for hypersonic spacecraft

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington's Aerodynamics Research Center have published a study in the journal Communications Engineering. Their work details a laser-based technique...

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Solid-state cooling prototypes now exceed three kilowatts using magnetic fields—enough for larger cooling applications, though reliable operation over millions of cycles remains a hurdle. @KITKarlsruhe @NatureEnergyJnl techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Solid-state cooling advances toward practical use, but challenges remain

As temperatures rise, the need for cooling is growing worldwide. Conventional cooling systems consume large amounts of electricity and use refrigerants with a high global warming potential. Caloric...

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Thousands of deceptive Google ads generated more than 100 million impressions across European markets, with some remaining active for years despite advertising safeguards. @NYUTandon techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Thousands of deceptive ads evade Google's safeguards

Thousands of deceptive advertisements have slipped through Google's advertising safeguards, exposing internet users to fake virus warnings, misleading software promises and potentially dangerous...

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TEM Agent turns plain-English requests into complex electron microscope experiments, coordinating dozens of steps that previously required custom code for each scenario. @BerkeleyLab techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

New virtual assistant streamlines one of the most advanced microscopes

Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: Where, exactly, are the atoms? The arrangement of atoms determines nearly everything...

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A redesigned electrolyte unlocked tin’s four-electron reaction in an acidic flow battery, accessing charge that common two-electron designs leave unused. @NatureChemistry techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Electrolyte redesign unlocks tin's full charge capacity for flow batteries

Tin is able to exchange four electrons as it changes between dissolved ions and solid metal, but acidic tin batteries commonly use only a two-electron reaction, leaving half that potential charge out...

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Robot-vision algorithms using Fast Feature Field ran roughly two to five times faster than previous approaches, turning event-camera signals into usable information across multiple perception tasks. @Penn @SciRobotics techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Fast Feature Field: The missing link between event cameras and robot vision

For decades, event cameras, which emulate the biological retina by continuously monitoring changes in light intensity, have promised to revolutionize how robots perceive the world by allowing them to...

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Hackers stole more than $6 billion from Binance, most of it in about 20 minutes, in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

What to know about the $6.3B hack on Binance, likely the biggest-ever crypto theft

Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, said Friday that hackers stole more than $6 billion in what appears to be the largest cryptocurrency heist on record. Blockchain firms have...

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Artificial armor and added weights let caterpillars cross glass they previously could not crawl on, offering clues that could help soft robots navigate smooth surfaces. @RSocPublishing techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Armored caterpillars offer robot designers lessons in crossing slippery glass

Animals have long been one of the primary sources of inspiration for robotics researchers. This is because they rely on sophisticated biological mechanisms and locomotion strategies that could be...

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A moth-shaped robot grew a working UV sensor in about a minute, using chemical building blocks delivered through artificial veins to the spot where UV light struck. @advscinews techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Robot moth grows a UV sensor by using an artificial circulatory system

A moth-shaped robot used an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical building blocks through its body and grow a light sensor where UV light struck.

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Power grid frequency dips every 60 seconds appear linked to large battery systems checking their charge—a measurable rhythm observed beyond Europe. @NatureEnergyJnl techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Mystery of 60-second fluctuations in power grids solved

TenneT Germany, the largest transmission system operator in Germany, has observed over several years that the frequency in the European power grid dips briefly every 60 seconds. While these deviati...

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Cracks turn soft liquid-metal composites into conductors: pressure opens gaps between droplets, and metal remains in those gaps even after the pressure is removed. @cellpressnews techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Cracks that carry current: Liquid metal forms electrical pathways in soft materials

When electronics need to stretch, bend or flex, like a wearable sensor or a shape-changing robot, liquid metal often carries the electricity that makes them work.

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A micro-LED sets a quantum well LED speed record with 2.75-gigahertz optical modulation bandwidth on just 25 milliwatts of power, targeting short-range data center links. @uofigrainger techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Record-setting 2.75 gigahertz LED designed for fast, energy-efficient data centers

A collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering and the University of Notre Dame has broken the world record for optical switching speed in...

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PixelDiT2 gives AI image generation control down to individual pixels while nearly matching the performance of leading latent-space models, allowing edits to target details such as glasses or a car’s color. @UofR @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Improving AI-generated images, pixel by pixel

If you have ever used an artificial intelligence text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, you may have encountered a common but maddening problem: The image looks nearly perfect, but...

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Titanium boosted chromium nitride films’ thermoelectric power factor 250-fold without high-temperature processing—a step toward harvesting waste heat in heat-sensitive devices. @tohoku_univ techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Titanium boosts thermoelectric performance of thin films by 250-fold

Every electronic device, factory and vehicle generates heat that often goes to waste. What if that energy could be recovered to generate electricity using thin films manufactured without high-tempe...

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Judges got better at spotting a chatbot as live chats grew longer across 188 trials, suggesting follow-up questions may offer clues that prepared transcripts miss. @NatureHumBehav techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI often passes for human, but asking follow-up questions can trip it up

Reading a conversation and deciding whether a chatbot wrote it can be surprisingly difficult. In a study involving more than 72,000 judgments of human and AI responses, participants frequently...

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A ruthenium catalyst delivered platinum-like hydrogen production with 75% less precious metal, using groups of just three or four neighboring ruthenium atoms. @NatureComms techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Ruthenium catalyst matches platinum in hydrogen production while using far less precious metal

Lowering the cost of green hydrogen production requires catalysts that produce hydrogen efficiently while using smaller amounts of expensive precious metals. A Korean research team has developed a...

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Printed sensors in mattress protectors track posture without cameras or wearables, with the aim of flagging fall risk early enough for caregivers to intervene. @rmit techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Printed electronics turn mattress protectors into fall-risk monitors

Australian medtech company Sleeptite and RMIT University researchers have secured a U.S. patent for smart bedding technology designed to monitor residents' well-being in health care settings and...

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Bismuth sulfide appears to sidestep a solar-material trade-off: at room temperature, its charge-loss rate is estimated to be about 75% lower than conventional materials that absorb light as strongly. @UniofOxford @nature techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Semiconductors could sidestep a key solar-energy trade-off through a newly identified mechanism

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a novel semiconductor that overcomes a key limitation of light-harvesting materials. The results, published today (Oct. 28) in Nature, could...

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A tiny flying robot resumed flight after being flattened under roughly 11,000 times its own weight—a collision-resistant prototype that still draws power through external wires. @SciRobotics techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Insect-inspired flying robot bounces back after collisions

Flying insects, such as fruit flies, bees, dragonflies and mosquitoes, can dart through narrow spaces and survive collisions with various objects. In contrast, many flying robots fall, suffer damage...

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Dialogue may teach LLMs social reasoning better than textbooks about emotions, an audit tracing training data to model responses suggests. @georgiatech @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

New neural framework could make LLMs more empathetic

As more people turn to large language models (LLMs) during personal crises, the companies behind them are engineering these AI-powered models to be more personal, empathetic and understanding when...

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