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Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Sunday, June 14, 2026

Sandia Labs Finds Energy-Efficient Method for Powering Ships

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Line0534.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" border="0" />Automakers are busy at work developing a hydrogen fuel cell specifically for cars. But researchers at Sandia National Laboratories may have ...Full Article

Nine Teams Break into the Next Round of the DARPA Robotics Challenge

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/VRCATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="52" border="0" />Last week marked the DARPA Robotics Challenge’s first major test: the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). From June 17-21, 26 teams from ...Full Article

Solar Panels Slim Down

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-20110420-RD-LSC-0880_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Researchers at MIT have recently discovered a way to create solar panels that are thousands of times thinner than previous models, ...Full Article

Materials Upstage the Human Genome Project

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/MGI.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />New materials may drive new technologies both for their manufacture as well as their applications, but births of these so-called “game-changing” ...Full Article

Miniature Robots and More Come to Life with 3D-Printed Microbattery

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/microbattery.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="74" border="0" />When you think of taking something with “a grain of salt,” you might be taking it lightly, but you shouldn’t be ...Full Article

Breaking Down Barriers to HPC

The tale of the "missing middle" is all-too-common for many small-to-medium-sized manufacturers looking for a digital leg up on their competition. And at this year's International Supercomputing Conference, the ...Full Article

MIT Creates Steamless CO2 Scrubbers

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Wzwz_heizkraftwerk_mtb_1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Researchers at MIT have discovered a way to eliminate carbon dioxide from the emissions without the previously used steam connection. Not ...Full Article

ORNL Stores Four Times the Energy with a Battery Breakthrough

<img style="float: left;" src="http://www.ornl.gov/adm/partnerships/success_stories/photos/Nanda-battery-cell-assem.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Cars and buildings aren't the only things that stand to benefit from energy efficiency; batteries too need to be able to ...Full Article

For Automakers, Black Boxes Could Unleash a Torrent of Big Data

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/bigdataroad.png" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />A growing trend that started in Italy might mean big changes for automotive insurance that could actually put a smile on ...Full Article