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World-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite

March 2, 2026 Tech Xplore

Faster, more secure connections from space could one day make broadband on planes, ships and even remote roads as easy as turning on a light. The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defense and Space, the […]

Technology

Micro to mega engineering: Scaling up the ‘world’s smallest Nerf blaster’

March 2, 2026 Tech Xplore

BYU engineers had so much fun working with Mark Rober to create the “world’s smallest Nerf blaster,” they continued the work to see how big they could make it. The micro ant-blaster has become a […]

Technology

GiantEye—new dimensions in computed tomography

March 2, 2026 Tech Xplore

Traditional industrial tomographs reach their physical limits when it comes to large volumes and high radiography requirements. Fraunhofer IIS’s XXL CT system, built in 2013, is considered the world’s only publicly accessible facility capable of […]

Technology

A 270-year-old physics trick could supercharge affordable battery technology

March 2, 2026 Tech Xplore

Roughly 270 years ago, Dr. Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost from Germany observed a peculiar behavior of water droplets on heated metal surfaces. In his manuscript, “A Tract About Some Qualities of Common Water,” he described how […]

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SwRI develops magnetostrictive probe for safer, more cost-effective storage tank inspections

March 2, 2026 Tech Xplore

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a magnetostrictive transducer (MST) probe that uses ultrasonic guided wave technology to detect corrosion in storage tanks, a process that normally requires emptying the tank and checking for corrosion […]

Computers

Don’t panic: ‘Humanity’s last exam’ has begun

February 28, 2026 Tech Xplore

When artificial intelligence systems began acing long-standing academic assessments, researchers realized they had a problem: the tests were too easy. Popular evaluations, such as the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) exam, once considered formidable, are […]

Technology

Can smart cameras improve evacuations? A new approach to smarter crowd mapping

February 27, 2026 Tech Xplore

Emergency evacuations during natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis increasingly rely on advanced technology to effectively assess real-time crowd movement and points of congestion. Disaster-preparedness involves the development of an optimized technology that is easy […]

Technology

‘Solar battery’ stores sunlight for days, then releases hydrogen on demand

February 26, 2026 Tech Xplore

A new material can store energy from sunlight and convert it into hydrogen days later. The material, jointly developed by researchers from Ulm and Jena, can do this even in the dark. The process is […]

Computers

VR game helps police officers manage stress better

February 26, 2026 Tech Xplore

Training police officers with a virtual-reality game can significantly improve their ability to regulate stress, even in realistic, high-pressure situations. The VR game, developed at the Donders Institute at Radboud University, has already been integrated […]

Computers

Adaptive drafter model uses downtime to double LLM training speed

February 26, 2026 Tech Xplore

Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks like advanced programming and multistep […]

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