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Researchers Move Closer to Controlling Two-dimensional Graphene

“The results relied on a cleaner technique to manipulate the flow of electricity, giving graphene greater conductivity than metals such as copper and gold, and raising its potential for use in telecommunications systems and quantum computers. The device you are …

Rochester researchers set ‘ultrabroadband’ record with entangled photons

“The engineers have achieved unprecedented bandwidth and brightness on chip-sized nanophotonic devices. Quantum entanglement—or what Albert Einstein once referred to as “spooky action at a distance”— occurs when two quantum particles are connected to each other, even when millions …

Room-temperature switching of spin-to-charge conversion in ferroelectric semiconductors

“An international team of researchers coordinated by Christian Rinaldi from Politecnico di Milano has unveiled the potential of germanium telluride (GeTe) for ultralow-power spin-based electronics. These findings were reported in the Nature Electronics issue of October 2021 (click here for …

Spintronics: Exotic ferromagnetic order in two-dimensions

“An international team has detected at HZB’s vector magnet facility VEKMAG an unusual ferromagnetic property in a two-dimensional system, known as “easy-plane anisotropy”. This could foster new energy efficient information technologies based on spintronics for data storage, among other …

Trapping spins with sound

“Acoustic manipulation of electron spins could lead to new methods of quantum control Color centers are lattice defects in crystals that can capture one or more additional electrons. The spin of these electrons is very sensitive to external electric and …

Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here!

“Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of Fedora Project contributors: our latest release, Fedora Linux 35, is here! While we broke our six-release streak of on-schedule releases, we felt it was more …

A new 3D printing frontier: Self-powered wearable devices

“When most people think of wearable devices, they think of smart watches, smart glasses, fitness trackers, even smart clothing. These devices, part of a fast-growing market, have two things in common: They all need an external power source, and they …

Alaska Air Group Collaborating with ZeroAvia to Develop Hydrogen Powertrain for 76-Seat Zero-Emission Aircraft

“ZeroAvia is gaining altitude as the leader in zero-emission passenger aircraft as it announces a development collaboration with Alaska Air Group, the parent company of Alaska Airlines, for a hydrogen-electric powertrain capable of flying 76-seat regional aircraft in excess of …

Amateur astronomers help discovery of a warped disc around a black hole in Milky Way

“An international team of astrophysicists from South Africa, the UK, France and the US have found large variations in the brightness of light seen from around one of the closest black holes in our Galaxy, 9,600 light-years from Earth …

Atomic-Scale Images for Energy Science

“They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But that’s only true if it’s not blurry, or grainy, or the subject’s head is not out of the frame. These kind of epic fails plague even experienced …