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New material can increase boiler efficiency

“Several years of detective work in the laboratory and sitting at a scanning electron microscope have increased our knowledge of stainless steel. The results may lead to new materials to be used in the boilers of power plants, with higher …

New Quantum Repeaters Could Enable a Scalable Quantum Internet

“Quantum repeaters that can store multiplexed signals; provide heralded signals of entanglement; and operate at telecommunications wavelengths have been developed by two independent research teams. Their work could prove to be an important step towards the creation of a scalable …

New Research Brings Age Of 65M-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Into Sharper Focus

“New research into one of the most volatile periods in Earth’s geological history has narrowed down the precise age of a meteorite impact in the Ukraine around 65 million years ago, ruling out the chance that it contributed to …

New Type of Machine Learning Aids Earthquake Risk Prediction

“Our homes and offices are only as solid as the ground beneath them. When that solid ground turns to liquid — as sometimes happens during earthquakes — it can topple buildings and bridges. This phenomenon is known as liquefaction, and it was …

Panasonic Commercializes a New Semiconductor Substrate Material Designed to Improve Reliability

“Panasonic Corporation announced today that its Industrial Solutions Company has commercialized a semiconductor package substrate material (Product No. R-1515V) enabling both low package warpage and high assembly-level reliability. The newly developed material has very low thermal expansion properties to reduce …

Physicists at Georgia Tech and engineers at UC Santa Barbara are exploring the shallow underground world with a burrowing soft robot

“We’ve seen robots take to the air, dive beneath the waves and perform all sorts of maneuvers on land. Now, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Georgia Institute of Technology are exploring a new frontier: the ground beneath our …

Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state

“The results open possibilities for studying gravity’s effects on relatively large objects in quantum states. To the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that — still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum …

Rock crystals from the deep give microscopic clues to earthquake ground movements

“Microscopic imperfections in rock crystals deep beneath Earth’s surface play a deciding factor in how the ground slowly moves and resets in the aftermath of major earthquakes, says new research involving the University of Cambridge. The stresses resulting from …

Samsung Introduces New 5G Radio with Integrated Antennas

“Driving greater deployment efficiency in a compact form factor, Samsung’s new One Antenna Radio is built to accelerate 5G rollouts Samsung Electronics today unveiled a new radio designed to help mobile operators overcome the challenges they face in deploying …

Scientists develop energy saving technique which could help pave way for a carbon neutral society

“Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered a method which will allow for faster communication systems and better energy saving electronics. The breakthrough was made by establishing how to remotely measure the electric field inside a semiconductor device for …