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April 19, 2024

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Crucial Connection for 'Quantum Internet' Made for the First Time

Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum ...

Breakthrough for Next-Generation Digital Displays

Apr. 10, 2024 — Researchers have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user's pulse, among other things. Their results could be the start of a whole new generation of displays for phones, computers ...

Micro-Lisa! Making a Mark With Novel Nano-Scale Laser Writing

Mar. 26, 2024 — High-power lasers are often used to modify polymer surfaces to make high-tech biomedical products, electronics and data storage components. Now researchers have discovered a light-responsive, inexpensive sulfur-derived polymer is receptive to low ...

Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection

Mar. 28, 2024 — A research team has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas sensors. Their newly developed biomimetic olfactory ...

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Computer Scientists Show the Way: AI Models Need Not Be SO Power Hungry

Apr. 3, 2024 — The development of AI models is an overlooked climate culprit. Computer scientists have created a recipe book for designing AI models that use much less energy without compromising performance. They ...

App May Pave Way to Treatments for No. 1 Dementia in Under-60s

Apr. 1, 2024 — A smartphone app could enable greater participation in clinical trials for people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a devastating neurological disorder that often manifests in ...

More Efficient TVs, Screens and Lighting

Mar. 27, 2024 — New multidisciplinary research could lead to more efficient televisions, computer screens and ...

Memory Self-Test Via Smartphone Can Identify Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease

Mar. 27, 2024 — Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of 'mild cognitive impairment', a condition that may indicate Alzheimer's disease, with ...

Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory

Mar. 19, 2024 — In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic -- or brain-inspired -- computing, engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than ...

Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists made a single-molecule transistor using quantum interference to control electron flow. This new design offers high on/off ratio and ...

Semiconductors at Scale: New Processor Achieves Remarkable Speed-Up in Problem Solving

Mar. 25, 2024 — Annealing processors are crucial for solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, they face scalability challenges due to the complexity of ...

Downscaling Storage Devices: Magnetic Memory Based on the Chirality of Spiral Magnets

Mar. 22, 2024 — A team of researchers has proposed a new concept for magnet-based memory devices, which might revolutionize information storage devices owing to ...

N-Channel Diamond Field-Effect Transistor

Mar. 21, 2024 — A research team has developed an n-channel diamond MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor). The developed n-channel diamond MOSFET provides a key step toward CMOS (complementary ...

AI-Based App Can Help Physicians Find Skin Melanoma

Mar. 20, 2024 — A mobile app that uses artificial intelligence, AI, to analyze images of suspected skin lesions can diagnose melanoma with very high precision, according to a new ...

Brain-Inspired Wireless System to Gather Data from Salt-Sized Sensors

Mar. 19, 2024 — In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...

Bendable Energy Storage Materials by Cool Science

Mar. 19, 2024 — Imaging being able to wear clothes that charge your gadgets just by wearing them. New research has brought us a step closer to achieving this ...

New Study Shows Analog Computing Can Solve Complex Equations and Use Far Less Energy

Mar. 14, 2024 — A team of engineers has proven that their analog computing device, called a memristor, can complete complex, scientific computing tasks while bypassing the limitations of digital ...

Scientists Develop Ultra-Thin Semiconductor Fibers That Turn Fabrics Into Wearable Electronics

Mar. 13, 2024 — Scientists have developed ultra-thin semiconductor fibers that can be woven into fabrics, turning them into smart wearable ...

3D Reflector Microchips Could Speed Development of 6G Wireless

Mar. 6, 2024 — Researchers have developed a semiconductor chip that will enable ever-smaller devices to operate at the higher frequencies needed for future 6G communication ...

Compact Chips Advance Precision Timing for Communications, Navigation and Other Applications

Mar. 6, 2024 — Precision timing and synchronization are crucial for navigation, communication and radar systems. Scientists have built compact chips capable of converting light into microwaves, which could improve ...

Mixed-Dimensional Transistors Enable High-Performance Multifunctional Electronic Devices

Feb. 23, 2024 — Downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists recently ...

Method Identified to Double Computer Processing Speeds

Feb. 21, 2024 — Scientists introduce what they call 'simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading' or SHMT. This system doubles computer processing speeds with existing hardware by simultaneously using ...

New Chip Opens Door to AI Computing at Light Speed

Feb. 16, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the ...

A Sleeker Facial Recognition Technology Tested on Michelangelo's David

Feb. 2, 2024 — Many people are familiar with facial recognition systems that unlock smartphones and game systems or allow access to our bank accounts online. But the current technology can require boxy projectors ...

Bringing Together Real-World Sensors and VR to Improve Building Maintenance

Jan. 31, 2024 — A new system that brings together real-world sensing and virtual reality would make it easier for building maintenance personnel to identify and fix issues in commercial buildings that are in ...

Using Vibrator Found in Cell Phones, Researchers Develop 3D Tumor Spheroids to Screen for Anti-Cancer Drugs

Jan. 30, 2024 — Investigators have developed a low-cost, high-throughput device that can reliably generate uniform tumor spheroids. The study describes how to assemble the 'Do-It-Yourself (DIY)' device ...

Researchers Propose a Web 3.0 Streaming Architecture and Marketplace

Jan. 23, 2024 — Web 3.0 is a blockchain technology-based internet paradigm that is transparent and decentralized. But, Web 3.0 streaming services require modifications to the existing service structure due to ...

New Sustainable Method for Creating Organic Semiconductors

Jan. 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new, more environmentally friendly way to create conductive inks for use in organic electronics such as solar cells, artificial neurons, and soft sensors. The findings ...

Scientists Advance Affordable, Sustainable Solution for Flat-Panel Displays and Wearable Tech

Jan. 22, 2024 — Scientists have developed 'supramolecular ink,' a new 3D-printable OLED (organic light-emitting diode) material made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals. ...

Researchers Unveil New Way to Counter Mobile Phone 'Account Takeover' Attacks

Jan. 22, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where a hacker gains unauthorized access to online ...

Mini-Robots Modeled on Insects May Be Smallest, Lightest, Fastest Ever Developed

Jan. 18, 2024 — Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider may be the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used ...

Ultrafast Laser Pulses Could Lessen Data Storage Energy Needs

Jan. 17, 2024 — A discovery from an experiment with magnetic materials and ultrafast lasers could be a boon to energy-efficient data ...

Let Me Check My Phone Again

Jan. 13, 2024 — New research finds that smartphone usage can increase and even become unhealthy for those who have obsessive-compulsive ...

Artificial Muscle Device Produces Force 34 Times Its Weight

Jan. 11, 2024 — Scientists developed a soft fluidic switch using an ionic polymer artificial muscle that runs with ultra-low power to lift objects 34 times greater than its weight. Its light weight and small size ...