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Traditional AUVs rely on thrusters or pumps to adjust depth, which consumes considerable energy and generates noise. Team BayMax’s design replaces this system with a BCD that employs reversible hydrogen fuel cells. By splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, the BCD can precisely control the ROV’s buoyancy, mimicking the swim bladders found in fish.

This approach offers many advantages. “The cool thing about this for us is that it’s cutting-edge technology,” remarked Bare. We’re the first to implement it in a device with such comprehensive controls, making it truly groundbreaking.”

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Iontronic neuromorphic computing has only recently broken ground but is developing at a rapid pace. A computer better than the ones living organisms already have (brain) just doesn’t exist.

This idea does spin the mind into theoretical territory around the future of AI and even consciousness.

That aside, the study published around the artificial synapse marks a significant step forward for the future of computers.

If you do the math, it means CATL is offering an impressive charging rate of roughly 1 km/sec in a 10 minute quick charge.

A new paper that combines antigenic analysis of dengue virus with two decades of hospital data in Thailand teases apart how different combinations of serotypes shape the risk of severe secondary infections in children.

In a new study, a Yale Pathology team has identified a possible therapeutic target for treating obesity-induced liver cancer.

Researchers say inhibiting a molecule called fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5) could block tumor progression in many cases:

Inhibiting a certain protein in mice reduced obesity-induced liver tumor development, Yale researchers found. It could reveal a future treatment route.

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Honda and its joint venture partners plan to invest $11 billion in Ontario, Canada, to create a “comprehensive EV value chain,” the automaker announced.

This is the introduction of the Book Review of The Art of Being Posthuman (Polity 2024) by Dr. Francesca Ferrando. Info: The Art of Being Posthuman — Polity w…

Calabi-Yau manifolds, 6D shapes that are crucial to string theory, were named after the late Eugenio Calabi (right), who proposed the shapes in the 1950s, and Shing-Tung Yau, who in the 1970s set out to prove Calabi wrong but ended up doing the opposite.

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

China’s first Sora-level text-to-video large model Vidu was unveiled at the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Saturday, intensifying the artificial intelligence competition globally.

Vidu, developed by Chinese AI firm Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University, told China Daily that the model can create a high-definition video 16 seconds long and 1080p resolution in just one click.

The company said that it is China’s first inaugural video large model with extended duration, exceptional consistency, and dynamic capabilities and is “very close to” the level of Sora.