The crystal structure of bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3), the multiferroic material at the center of the Brown study. Image: Nan Wang and Ya Yang, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. AI's appetite for electricity has become one of technology's defining problems. Better algorithms help, but some of the biggest long-term gains could come from rethinking the materials inside chips. Engineers at Brown Univ...

Illustration of a cryo-transmission electron microscope, the class of instrument the laser phase plate upgrades. Image: Ryan Kissinger, courtesy of NIAID, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has transformed how scientists see the molecules of life, earning its pioneers the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yet it has a stubborn blind spot: most human proteins a...

XREAL's booth at Tokyo Game Show 2024, where the company showed earlier hardware; AURA is its first pair of glasses on Android XR. Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Headsets that cover your face have struggled to become everyday devices. Google and XREAL are betting that glasses will fare better. On October 28, 2026, the two companies launched XREAL AURA, the first ...

A speech waveform, spectrogram and phonetic transcription, the raw material speech-recognition models learn from. Image: Wugapodes, via Wikimedia Commons, LGPL. A transcript can capture every word and still miss what people need: who said what, a translation for a colleague, or the correct spelling of an industry term. On October 28, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-...