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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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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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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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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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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 17

AI model variants reduced audio attack success in tests without slowing speech recognition, making the same malicious recording harder to reuse across voice assistants. techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

One AI model, trillions of variants: Breaking mass attacks on voice assistants

Imagine sitting in your home, listening to what you think is a run-of-the-mill advertisement or perhaps a piece of music you enjoy. But while you hum along, that audio file is sending a secret,...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 17

Ultrasound authenticated fingerprints without storing them as digital data, reaching 97.92% accuracy in an experimental test involving four people. @postech2020 techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Fingerprint authentication uses ultrasound without storing biometric information as digital data

A research team has developed a new biometric authentication technology that can identify users without storing their fingerprint information as digital data. The study is published in Nature Sensors.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 16

A cyberattack delayed simulated clean-water pumping by about 15 minutes in a laboratory model without cracking encryption. @ubcnews techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

New cyber threat to water systems exposes limits of encryption

University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 16

More than 100 foods share a previously unreported relationship between two microwave-related properties, identified in experimental data organized by human-guided AI. @penn_state techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Can AI help discover new food physics? Researchers pair AI with human expertise

Information about food properties that determine quality, safety and sensory characteristics is critical for food product development and processing design, but it is spread across thousands of...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 16

AI agents guided by forecasts of software edits reached about 30% median coding success in initial tests, versus 22% without forecasting. @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI agents get better by anticipating errors in their own software changes

Some artificial intelligence agents can modify the programs and instructions governing their own work, with the goal of improving performance. These changes, however, can introduce errors, while...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 16

Three brain organoids yielded 83% braille-letter decoding accuracy, versus 61% for one, when an algorithm classified their electrical responses—but why combining them helped remains unclear. @frontiersin @frontiersin techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Mini brain organoids 'read' braille in key step toward biohybrid computing

Could computers include tiny brain organoids one day? The human brain is an incredibly energy-efficient computer, and silicon processors that try to imitate it achieve huge energy savings over...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 16

Perovskite LEDs reached 37% peak quantum efficiency, above the 20–30% range of most previous work, after chemical fine-tuning of the solution used to make them. @EmoryUniversity @nature techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Chemical fine-tuning lifts perovskite LEDs to 37% efficiency

Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 15

Secretly biased AI advice made unfavorable choices about five to eight times more likely in an experiment, yet users still rated the AI as highly helpful. @hkuniversity @PNASNews techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Experiment reveals how hidden agendas in AI advice can distort human decisions

A research team has discovered that AI assistants can easily manipulate users into making disadvantageous decisions when the AI operates with a hidden agenda.

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 15

Perovskite solar mini-modules made with lower-toxicity ink exceeded 18% efficiency, using room-temperature coating compatible with continuous roll-to-roll production. @uniofsurrey techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Greener chemistry brings low-toxicity perovskite solar cells closer to production

Solar panels that can be coated onto thin, flexible surfaces could one day be made the way newspapers are printed, at room temperature and without the toxic chemicals the process has relied on, claim...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 15

GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet criticized people for using a probability-based approach they used themselves, with Claude giving the lowest fairness rating in every trial of one experiment. @PsychScience @arxiv techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

LLMs show a human-like double standard when judging others' reasoning

Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 15

AI agents built shared vocabularies across 37 complex data sets, from wine chemistry to exoplanets, without preprogrammed words or a central computer imposing language rules. @vubrussel techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

AI agents develop their own 'artificial natural language' to communicate about complex data

Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional,...

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TechXplore@TechXplore_comOct 15

Two experimental niobium-titanium alloys resisted cracking at -253°C, showing no measurable shift to brittleness as they switched how they deform in extreme cold. @UniofOxford @nature techxplore.com/news/2026-10-…

Metal alloys defy the deep freeze, staying tough at -253°C

Scientists have discovered a class of metal that can unexpectedly resist extreme cold using an unusual mechanism. Normally such temperatures would make similar materials brittle and vulnerable to...

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