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3D semiconductor particles offer 2D properties

“When it comes to creating next-generation electronics, two-dimensional semiconductors have a big edge. They’re faster, more powerful and more efficient. They’re also incredibly difficult to fabricate. Three-dimensional semiconductor particles have an edge, too – many of them – given their …

AMD Unveils New Power-Efficient, High-Performance Mobile Graphics for Premium and Thin-and-Light Laptops, and New Desktop Graphics Cards

“Today, during the 2022 Product Premiere livestream event, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) unveiled additions and enhancements to the AMD Radeon™ graphics portfolio to deliver incredible, next-level experiences to more gamers than ever. Bringing higher levels of performance to power a new …

AMD Unveils New Ryzen Mobile Processors Uniting “Zen 3+” core with AMD RDNA 2 Graphics in Powerhouse Design

“Today, during the 2022 Product Premiere livestream event, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the full lineup of new AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series processors for laptops, bringing the new, highly-efficient and extremely powerful, “Zen 3+” core architecture together with all-new AMD RDNA …

An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery

“In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why. Fluids can be roughly divided into two categories: regular ones and weird ones. Regular ones, like water and alcohol …

Artificial lightning to prompt nuclear fusion

“Pulsed electric fields, such as the ones caused by lightning strikes, manifest themselves as voltage spikes, posing a destructive threat to electronic components and causing considerable damage. Scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have now discovered that such voltage spikes …

Bringing the Sun into the lab

“Liquid-metal experiment provides insight into the heating mechanism of the Sun’s corona Why the Sun’s corona reaches temperatures of several million degrees Celsius is one of the great mysteries of solar physics. A “hot” trail to explain this …

E Ink Joins Forces with Premium Automaker Showing the BMW iX Flow Wrapped in Digital Paper Technology at CES 2022

“E Ink, (8069.TW), the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, today announced BMW, Munich-based premium car manufacturer, will unveil the BMW iX Flow Featuring E Ink at CES 2022: an E Ink digital paper-wrapped concept …

Earth isn’t ‘super’ because the sun had rings before planets

“Pressure bumps’ in sun’s protoplanetary disk explain many solar system features Before the solar system had planets, the sun had rings — bands of dust and gas similar to Saturn’s rings — that likely played a role in Earth’s …

Engineers develop new software tool to aid material modeling research

“A new software tool can accelerate materials science research by cutting out tedious background research on material properties. Penn State and Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently debuted propSym, an open-source software on the programming platform MATLAB, to calculate the fundamental …

FAST Detects Coherent Interstellar Magnetic Field with a Technique Conceived at Arecibo

“Magnetic fields are the essential, but often “secret” ingredients of the interstellar medium and the process of making stars. The secrecy shrouding interstellar magnetic fields can be attributed to the lack of experimental probes. While Michael Faraday was already probing …