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Designing better battery electrolytes

“Looking at the future of battery materials. Designing a battery is a three-part process. You need a positive electrode, you need a negative electrode, and — importantly — you need an electrolyte that works with both electrodes. An electrolyte is the battery …

Designing quantum materials with quantum computers

“Designing quantum materials with specific exotic quantum properties is one of the greatest challenges in quantum technologies and material science. Specifically, predicting the behavior of collective quantum systems pushes computational capabilities to their limit, and predicting correlated quantum materials is …

Europe’s Vega C rocket fails on 2nd-ever mission, 2 satellites lost

“The Vega C was carrying two spacecraft for Airbus’ Pléiades Neo Earth-imaging constellation. The second mission of Europe’s new Vega C rocket did not go according to plan. The medium-lift Vega C lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in …

EV record breakers! Sunswift 7 goes 1000km on a single charge in world’s best time

“UNSW Sydney’s student-built solar-powered car averaged nearly 85km/h over 12 hours to set Guinness World Record with just eight minutes to spare. UNSW Sydney’s Sunswift 7 solar-powered electric car has claimed a Guinness World Record by going …

IBM and Rapidus Form Strategic Partnership to Build Advanced Semiconductor Technology and Ecosystem in Japan

“IBM and Rapidus today announced a joint development partnership to advance logic scaling technology as part of Japan’s initiatives to become a global leader in semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing. Rapidus Corporation researches, develops, designs, manufactures, and sells advanced …

Light years ahead: the advanced chip shaping an ultrafast tech future

“Research led by Monash University, RMIT and the University of Adelaide has developed an accurate method of controlling optical circuits on fingernail-sized photonic integrated circuits. The development, published in the prestigious international journal Optica builds on the work by the …

More stable states for quantum computers

“KIT researchers are working on a new qubit approach - publication in Nature Materials Quantum computers are considered the computers of the future. A and O are quantum bits (qubits), the smallest computing unit of quantum computers. Because they not only …

NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science

“The mission has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on the Red Planet. NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission …

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface

“Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign. A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting …

New sensor uses MRI to detect light deep in the brain

“Using this approach, researchers can map how light spreads in opaque environments. Using a specialized MRI sensor, MIT researchers have shown that they can detect light deep within tissues such as the brain. Imaging light in deep tissues is extremely …