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No GPS, No Cameras—Just AI: The Future of Drone Navigation
By : Keerthana S, In a major leap for autonomous flight, researchers have developed an artificial intelligence framework that allows drones to navigate accurately without relying on GPS or cameras. Instead, the system uses onboard.....
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Light Powers a New Class of Shape-Changing Semiconductors
By : Keerthana S, breakthrough that could reshape the future of electronics, researchers have discovered that perovskite crystals can rapidly and reversibly change their structure when exposed to light—an ability rarely seen.....
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Pneumatic Muscles Give Robots Unprecedented Lifting Power
By : Keerthana S, The flexible design allows robots to squeeze through tight spaces and debris. Scientists in the US have developed a new type of air-powered artificial muscles that allow robots lift up to 100 times their.....
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In Real Time: Sunlight Transforms Water into Fuel at the Nanoscale
By : Keerthana S, In a breakthrough that brings scientists closer to mastering clean energy, researchers in the United States have developed a way to observe how sunlight transforms water into fuel—live and at the nanoscale......
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New 2D Material Discovered with Unprecedented Light-Bending Ability
By : Priyadharshini S, The researchers also identified an extreme optical property called giant birefringence in the blue-to-ultraviolet range of the light spectrum. In birefringent materials, light traveling in different.....
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Self-Healing Composite Material Could Enable Machines to Last for Centuries
By : Priyadharshini S, When cracks appear inside the composite and begin to separate fiber layers from the surrounding matrix, the material automatically repairs the damage. It does this by using an electrically activated process that.....
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New Technique Lets Scientists Direct Heat Flow with Electricity
By : Priyadharshini S, Managing heat flow is crucial for many advanced technologies. It plays an important role in electronic cooling systems that function without moving parts, devices that convert heat into electricity, chip-based.....
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Physicists Identify New Proton-Like Particle at Large Hadron Collider
By : Priyadharshini S, The newly observed Ξcc+ is part of the same particle family as the proton, which was first identified in Manchester by Ernest Rutherford and his team between 1917 and 1919. While protons are made up of two up......
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New Supercool Alloy May Replace Helium-3 in Extreme Cooling Applications
By : Priyadharshini S, By tapping into the unusual behavior of particles at extremely small scales, quantum technologies are unlocking applications that once seemed like science fiction across many industries. One clear example is.....
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Scientists Confine Light Within a Layer 1,000 Times Thinner Than a Hair
By : Priyadharshini S, Light poses a fundamental challenge because it behaves both as a particle and a wave. Each wave has a characteristic wavelength that defines its natural scale. In the case of visible.....
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Five-in-One “Super Molecule” Could Power the Future of Electronics
By : Priyadharshini S, The newly created structure behaves as a unified nanoscale system, where all five components function as a single electronic unit. Experiments reveal that connecting these units reduces the energy gap, a key.....
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Physicists Uncover Magnetic Effect That Defies 300-Year-Old Friction Law
By : Priyadharshini S, By adjusting the distance between magnetic layers, researchers found they could push the system into a regime of competing interactions, causing the rotors to continuously rearrange as they slide. Experiments.....
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Duke Engineers Capture Light to Build the Fastest Photodetector Ever
By : Janani R, Engineers at Duke University have developed an ultrathin photodetector capable of capturing light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum in just 125 picoseconds, making it one of the fastest devices of its.....
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Scientists Uncover Light-Activated Semiconductors Capable of Changing Shape
By : Janani R, Researchers at the University of California, Davis have found that perovskite crystals can quickly and reversibly alter their shape when exposed to light, exhibiting behavior unlike conventional semiconductors......
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New Material Acts as a Switch for Superconductivity
By : Janani R, Scientists have discovered a new method to control superconductivity by modifying the environment surrounding a material rather than altering the material itself. Their findings suggest that subtle changes in external.....