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Perovskite-silicon solar cell hits 34% efficiency, record-level voltage
Researchers achieve a record 2.014V open-circuit voltage and 34% efficiency using a clever nanoscale interfacial design.
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How America’s hypersonic cruise missile could reach speeds above Mach 5
What is HACM? Here’s how America’s scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile is designed to fly faster than Mach 5.
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Iron-air batteries target 100-hour storage to replace fossil fuels
In this interview with Interesting Engineering, Ore Energy's Aytac Yilmaz reveals how storing energy for days could tran…
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US military assets deployed after AI falsely flagged Chinese ship cargo
A erroneous AI report almost led to a major US-China international incident after failure of human-in-the-loop decision…
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Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
He claimed without evidence that data centers are actually good for communities.
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Top 10 tiny houses that rethink the humble shipping container
Shipping containers aren't just for moving stuff around, and architects love to use them for all kinds of interesting id…
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A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline | TechCrunch
Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so co…
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Iconic Fiat 500 reinvented in restomod that rejects horsepower war
British studio La Cinquecento has revealed the 500 Scattante, which is a bespoke 650 kg (1400 pounds) restomod based on…
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6 days left to get ahead at Disrupt | TechCrunch
Our current ticket pricing window end in 6 days on Sept 25 at 11:59pm PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech lea…
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How Polybot teaches machines to pick tomatoes by showing them the motion
Polybot, a Tubingen startup spun out of the ELLIS Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, is bui…
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How LeVanta Tech's HALIA gets off the water
LeVanta Tech, a defence startup based in Diamondhead, Mississippi, is building HALIA, an uncrewed aircraft that floats m…
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Battery index pinpoints when sodium-ion cells can replace lithium-ion
SwRI’s Electrical Interchangeability Index determines if sodium-ion batteries can handle your device’s workload.
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