Category: Health AI

Many developed nations are facing the simultaneous aging of infrastructure built during periods of rapid economic growth. Japan has reached a critical turning point where numerous buildings and structures constructed in the post-war boom era now require demolition and renewal. The catalyst intensified dramatically after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which exposed vulnerabilities in structures failing to meet modern disaster prevention standards, leading to sharply increased demolition activity in urban areas.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-urban-infrastructure-renewal-sustainable-technique.html

The world’s online population grew by more than 240 million people in 2025, per Facts and Figures 2025 released today by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The new estimates confirm continuing progress in expanding digital connectivity, while pointing to differences in quality that impact how users benefit from Internet use.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-global-internet-users-disparities-deepen.html

When the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) invited users to flag false or misleading posts, critics initially scoffed. How could the same public that spreads misinformation be trusted to correct it? But a recent analysis by investigators from the University of Rochester, the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and the University of Virginia finds that “crowdchecking” (X’s collaborative fact-checking experiment known as Community Notes) actually works.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-effective-online-fact-checkers-peers.html

The next time you board a commercial flight and are told how to sit in the brace position for an emergency landing, consider this: did you know that international plane safety testing only requires adult male crash test dummies?

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-plane-car-men-safe-women.html

A research team at Rice University led by James Tour has developed a two-step flash Joule heating-chlorination and oxidation (FJH-ClO) process that rapidly separates lithium and transition metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. The method provides an acid-free, energy-saving alternative to conventional recycling techniques, a breakthrough that aligns with the surging global demand for batteries used in electric vehicles and portable electronics.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-joule-method-recovers-lithiumion-battery.html

A new analysis published in Information Systems Research finds that certain short-form videos on major platforms can trigger suicidal thoughts among vulnerable viewers and that a newly developed AI model can flag these high-risk videos before they spread. The research delivers one of the first data-driven, medically informed tools for detecting suicide-related harms in real time, giving platforms a clearer early-warning signal at a moment when youth mental-health concerns are rising and scrutiny of platform safety is intensifying.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-ai-short-videos-major-platforms.html

It is set to be a game-changer for CO2 capture: A newly developed pilot plant, the size of a truck container, extracts 50 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year—and does so with a record low energy requirement of under 2,000 kilowatt-hours per ton. The Austrian Pilot Unit 1 (APU1), has been commissioned recently and is now being successively developed and scaled up.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-technology-atmosphere.html

In recent years, perovskite has emerged as a promising solution for cheaper, more efficient solar energy. This advanced synthetic material is made from crystals that mimic the naturally occurring crystal perovskite (calcium titanate).

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-perovskite-solar-cells-efficiency-chlorine.html

Due to the intense global impact of fossil fuel overuse on air quality and climate, the search for advanced clean energy solutions has become critical. Metal–air batteries offer a game-changing alternative, holding the potential to replace combustion engines in various applications.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-plasma-based-method-efficient-catalysts.html

Korean investigators have successfully verified the world’s first real-world maritime Internet of Things (MIoT) communication network, which collects marine data by installing sensors and communication devices on ships, ports, and marine facilities and can be used for safety management and environmental monitoring.

Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-real-world-verification-maritime-iot.html