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UNH InterOperability Lab and Microchip Technology Partner to Expand 1000BASE-T1 PCS and PHY-C Automotive Compliance Testing

“The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced they have expanded testing for the 1000BASE-T1 PCS and PHY Control market to help …

W boson turns 40

“Forty years ago today, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they had discovered the electrically charged carrier of the weak force, one of nature’s four fundamental forces Exactly four decades ago today, on 25 January 1983, physicists …

17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica

“Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons— it’s bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it’s one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites. That’s partly because Antarctica is a desert …

A robot able to “smell” using a biological sensor

“The researchers say that the biological sensor sensitivity to smell is 10,000 times higher than that of existing electronic devices. A new technological development by Tel Aviv University has made it possible for a robot to smell using a …

Approaching the terahertz regime

“Room temperature quantum magnets switch states trillions of times per second A class of nonvolatile memory devices, called MRAM, based on quantum magnetic materials, can offer a thousandfold performance beyond current state-of-the-art memory devices. The materials known as antiferromagnets were …

Artifacts, Begone! NIST Improves Its Flagship Device for Measuring Mass

“For the first time, the NIST-4 Kibble balance directly incorporates a quantum standard for electrical resistance. In a brightly lit subterranean lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sits a room-sized electromechanical machine called the NIST …

Blast Chiller for the Quan­tum World

“The quantum nature of objects visible to the naked eye is currently a much-discussed research question. A team led by Innsbruck physicist Gerhard Kirchmair has now demonstrated a new method in the laboratory that could make the quantum properties of …

By detecting tiny flashes of heat, scientists pave way for more stable quantum computers

“An international collaboration between quantum scientists resulted in a new way to measure heat dissipation in superconducting quantum circuits – crucial building blocks for quantum technologies such as computers. The discovery represents a step forward for experimental quantum thermodynamics, the field …

Can you trust your quantum simulator?

“A new technique helps verify the accuracy of experiments that probe the strange behavior of atomic-scale systems. At the scale of individual atoms, physics gets weird. Researchers are working to reveal, harness, and control these strange quantum effects using quantum …

China’s Mingyang looks ‘beyond 18MW’ with 140-metre blade offshore wind turbine giant

“Manufacturer claims latest leap in size and power means machine can supply almost 100,000 people and slash build costs. Mingyang Smart Energy set out its stall to take China’s offshore wind industry to a new level of ultra-large …