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Unlocking the potential of blockchain technology

“Algorand uses a unique architecture developed by MIT Professor Silvio Micali to offer a decentralized, secure, and scalable blockchain. The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a country of around 50,000 people spread across more than 1,000 islands …

UW researchers can turn a single photo into a video

“Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene. How much more epic would that vacation photo of Niagara Falls be if the water were moving? Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a deep learning method that can do just …

An atom chip interferometer that could detect quantum gravity

“Physicists in Israel have created a quantum interferometer on an atom chip. This device can be used to explore the fundamentals of quantum theory by studying the interference pattern between two beams of atoms. University of Groningen physicist, Anupam Mazumdar …

An atomic look at lithium-rich batteries

“An international team of collaborators has made the first direct observation of the anionic redox reaction in a lithium-rich battery material. The research opens up pathways for improving existing battery cathodes—and designing new ones. Batteries have come a long …

Atom swapping could lead to ultra-bright, flexible next generation LEDs

“An international group of researchers has developed a new technique that could be used to make more efficient low-cost light-emitting materials that are flexible and can be printed using ink-jet techniques. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and …

Cabling for Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Project Reaches Halfway Mark

“Magnetic cable project will extend the reach of CERN’s high-energy physics collider The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has passed the halfway mark in the multi-year process of fabricating crucial superconducting …

China maintains ‘artificial sun’ at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record

“China broke the record by keeping the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by achieving plasma temperature at 120 million Celsius for 101 seconds and 160 million Celsius for 20 seconds, a major step toward the test run of the fusion …

Efficiently “switching on” bacteria to produce high-value chemicals

“- Most high-value chemicals are currently produced using fossil fuels - industrial chemistry’s use of petroleum accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions. - An exciting alternative is to engineer bacteria as “cell-factories” with a genetic switch that reroutes their chemistry …

Hola, South America! Announcing the Firmina subsea cable

“Today, we’re announcing Firmina, an open subsea cable being built by Google that will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay …

Less nosy smart speakers

“Technology could capture household information without recording speech. Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world’s smart speakers. The trouble, of course, is that …