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Young Mozambican inventor bringing the blind smart ‘vision’
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When Armando Ernesto Chau straps on the futuristic smart glasses that a young Mozambican robotics student is developing in the family dining room, he has a…
New storage platform delivers predictable renewable power regardless of weather conditions
Tanks with electrolyte. Credit: Fraunhofer ICT Europe’s largest vanadium redox flow battery—located at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology—has achieved an important research milestone: In a controlled test, it was…
Choose Your Battles: Identity Shapes Displaced Aggression
Summary: Displaced aggression—redirecting frustration onto an uninvolved target—has now been studied in mice, revealing that identity and social history play key roles in shaping aggressive behavior. Male mice primed by…
Your smartwatch might know you’re sick before you do—and it might help stop pandemics
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Smartwatch features that measure heart rates, oxygen levels, fitness levels and sleep quality have been marketed as valuable tools for people who are eager to monitor…
Zoning Out or Zoning In? How Aimless Wandering Trains the Brain
Summary: New research reveals that the brain may be learning even during unstructured, aimless exploration. By recording activity in tens of thousands of neurons, scientists found that the visual cortex…
New framework reduces memory usage and boosts energy efficiency for large-scale AI graph analysis
BingoCGN employs cross-partition message quantization to summarize inter-partition message flow, which eliminates the need for irregular off-chip memory access and utilizes a fine-grained structured strong lottery theory-based training algorithm to…
‘Thermoelectric permanent magnet’ achieves record power density for energy harvesting
Magnetic and analytical transverse thermoelectric properties of MCM. Credit: Energy & Environmental Science (2025). DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04845H The research group developed a “thermoelectric permanent magnet” with an artificially tilted multilayer structure…
