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Engineering

Stainless-steel component boosts bacteria-based biobattery

Engineering innovations generally require long hours in the lab, with a lot of trial and error through experimentation before zeroing in on the best solution.

Computer Sciences

AI chatbots remain overconfident—even when they're wrong, study finds

Artificial intelligence chatbots are everywhere these days, from smartphone apps and customer service portals to online search engines. But what happens when these handy tools overestimate their own abilities?

Energy & Green Tech

Study shows electrified cities could become giant batteries

Our electric vehicles (EVs) and hot water systems could become powerful assets for the electricity grid and help turn Australian cities into giant batteries, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has ...

Robotics

New approach allows drone swarms to autonomously navigate complex environments at high speed

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are now widely used worldwide to tackle various real-world tasks, including filming videos for various purposes, monitoring crops or other environments from above, ...

Energy & Green Tech

Co-intercalation process enables fast-charging sodium batteries

Li-ion and Na-ion batteries operate through a process called intercalation, where ions are stored and exchanged between two chemically different electrodes. In contrast, co-intercalation, a process in which both ions and ...

Computer Sciences

Platform can make machine learning more transparent and accessible

What began as a Ph.D. project has grown into a website with 120,000 unique visitors each year. With the platform OpenML, researcher Jan van Rijn is contributing to open science, aiming to make machine learning more transparent, ...

Machine learning & AI

Democratizing AI-powered sentiment analysis

Artificial intelligence is accelerating at breakneck speed, with larger models dominating the scene—more parameters, more data, more power. But here is the real question: Do we really need bigger to be better? We challenged ...