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Heat conduction plays prominent role in droplet dynamics

“When driving in the rain, it’s preferable that the raindrops roll or bounce off of the windshield instead of coating it or even freezing. A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St …

How to test the limits of quantum mechanics

“Researchers from Imperial College London and Lancaster University have suggested a new approach to test the limits of applicability of quantum mechanics. Quantum physics has long provided humanity with an elegant framework for understanding the microscopic world. However, quantum phenomena …

Intel Engineers Fastest Mobile Processor Ever with 12th Gen Intel Core Mobile

“Today at CES 2022, Intel announced the world’s fastest mobile processor, bringing its performance hybrid architecture to mobile platforms for the first time with new 12th Gen Intel Core mobile processors that are up to 40 percent faster than …

Magnetic surprise revealed in ‘magic-angle’ graphene

“Magnets and superconductors don’t normally get along, but a new study shows that ‘magic-angle’ graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could be useful in quantum computing. When two sheets of the carbon nanomaterial graphene are …

New In-Circuit Emulator (ICE) Boosts Productivity with Feature-Rich Programming and Debugging

“Microchip’s MPLAB ICE 4 In-Circuit Emulator is a full emulation, programming and debugging system featuring wireless connectivity, power debugging and real-time code profiling using trace Embedded engineers seeking complete analysis of projects for rapid development require easy-to-use yet powerful …

NUS engineers bring a soft touch to commercial robotics

“Inspired by the natural dexterity of the human hand, a team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has created a reconfigurable hybrid robotics system that is able to grip a variety of objects: from the small, soft …

NXP Advances IoT Connectivity with Industry’s First Secure Tri-Radio Device

“NXP® Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) today announced the IW612, the industry’s first secure tri-radio device to support the Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and 802.15.4 protocols. Part of NXP’s new family of tri-radio products, the new device …

NXP Ramps Flagship 4D Imaging Radar Chip to Production, Adds New Product Tailored for Fast-Growing L2+ Market

“NXP® Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) has announced two updates to its industry leading automotive radar portfolio, now designed-in at 20 top global OEMs. The industry’s first dedicated 16nm imaging radar processor, the NXP S32R45, has been released into mass production …

Physicist Seeks To Understand Dark Matter with Webb Telescope

“The much-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will usher in a new era of research on our universe. Among the many researchers planning to take advantage of the data from the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is Carnegie …

Physicists watch as ultracold atoms form a crystal of quantum tornadoes

“The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior. The world we experience is governed by classical physics. How we move, where we are, and how fast we’re going are all determined by the classical assumption …