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Solar panels work great in full sunlight conditions, but many regions have little sunlight on any given day, meaning there is less energy generated than needed. Now Tufts researchers have discovered that a particular type of jewel orchid, which thrives in low-light conditions, might offer a key to solving this problem.

Graphene plasmon polaritons are a class of hybrid quasi-particles with advantageous optoelectronic properties. These particles have proved promising for the development of miniaturized nanoscale circuits that operate in the terahertz and mid-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Warner Bros. Discovery's share price plunged more than 10 percent after-hours on Wednesday after it reported a quarterly loss of almost $10 billion.

Aviation experts and analysts have been full of praise for Kelly Ortberg, who returns from early retirement Thursday to take up the challenge of turning Boeing around after a series of quality and financial issues.

Test flights of so-called flying taxis—futuristic drones capable of transporting people—have been scrapped in Paris during the Olympics as the certification for the engine has not come through, its promoters told AFP Thursday.

Midea has released a new air fryer that can cook two different items simultaneously, and we're eager to find out if it justifies the high price tag.

Apple devices use many common internet security standards. Here's what each of them does, and how to use them on your Apple hardware.

"We're taking a waste product that's being produced by society and we're mining the gold from that waste product and starting to see the value in that finite resource," a mint official says.

For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However, artificial intelligence (AI) has now entered the arena of weapons design.

Researchers working on large artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT have vast swaths of internet text, photos and videos to train systems. But roboticists training physical machines face barriers: Robot data is expensive, and because there aren't fleets of robots roaming the world at large, there simply isn't enough data easily available to make them perform well in dynamic environments, such as people's homes.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have designed a new AI model that understands how humans perceive creativity in chess.

A new cross-disciplinary study by Washington University in St. Louis researchers has uncovered an unexpected psychological phenomenon at the intersection of human behavior and artificial intelligence: When told they were training AI to play a bargaining game, participants actively adjusted their own behavior to appear more fair and just, an impulse with potentially important implications for real-world AI developers.

Green hydrogen is emerging as an important potential solution for decarbonizing transportation, but new energy efficiency findings indicate that it should be used strategically in heavy-duty road, rail, aviation and marine transportation, a University of Michigan study shows.

Google TV Streamer is Alphabet's updated replacement for discontinued Chromecast. Here's how it fares versus the Apple TV 4K.

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After raising $200 million from investors, Humane has only sold $9 million worth of products and has received $1 million in returned products.

Paramount+ is raising the prices of its monthly plans, but there's a way to avoid the hikes and enjoy NFL football.

A report has outlined how Tim Cook has become the chief lobbyist for Apple. This is unsurprising, given Cook and predecessor Steve Jobs' history of influencing world governments.

As the U.S. faces significant challenges in scaling up production of hydrogen in cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways, a new Cornell study outlines strategies to meet up to 75% of the nation's future hydrogen demand by harnessing offshore wind energy.

Elon Musk's recent announcement on Twitter that "Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year" suggests that robots that have physical human-like characteristics and provide "genuinely useful" function might be with us soon.