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Announcing the Arduino IDE 2.0 (beta)

“The Arduino IDE is the well-known software we all use to program our boards. Its development started in 2005 based on the graphical interface of the Processing project and has never stopped since. During these years, countless hours of development …

Bottling the world’s coldest plasma

“Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world’s coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather …

Chemists at St Petersburg University develop a new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire

“Scientists at St Petersburg University have developed a new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire. What scientists propose is to use a ‘chemical fuse’ to cover the main conductor cable of the battery. It is a special protective …

Chemists boost boron’s utility

“A strategy for preventing boron-containing compounds from breaking down could help medicinal chemists design new drugs. Boron, a metalloid element that sits next to carbon in the periodic table, has many traits that make it potentially useful as a drug …

China’s Huawei, reeling from U.S. sanctions, plans foray into EVs - sources

“China’s Huawei plans to make electric vehicles under its own brand and could launch some models this year, four sources said, as the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, battered by U.S. sanctions, explores a strategic shift. Huawei …

China’s Tianwen-1 zooms in on Mars surface on cusp of new tech era

“China’s Mars orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images, revealing geographic features of the red planet in detail. The photos taken by Tianwen-1 come a week after the United States released a panorama of the Martian surface snapped by the …

Class-D Amplifier for High-Definition Automotive Audio from STMicroelectronics Adds Diagnostics for Safety Alerting

“The HFDA801A from STMicroelectronics is a high-resolution audio amplifier that is specifically designed for compact, cost-effective automotive applications. The HFDA801A is a 2MHz switching pulse-width modulation (PWM) Class-D amplifier with a quad-bridge configuration. An integrated high-performance digital-to-analog converter (DAC) ensures …

“Egg carton” quantum dot array could lead to ultralow power devices

“By putting a twist on new “2D” semiconductors, researchers have demonstrated their potential for using single photons to transmit information.| Medium Read A new path toward sending and receiving information with single photons of light has been discovered by an …

Engineering the boundary between 2D and 3D materials

“Cutting-edge microscope helps reveal ways to control the electronic properties of atomically thin materials. In recent years, engineers have found ways to modify the properties of some “two- dimensional” materials, which are just one or a few atoms thick, by …

Extinct atom reveals the long-kept secrets of the solar system

“Using the extinct niobium-​92 atom, ETH researchers have been able to date events in the early solar system with greater precision than before. The study concludes that supernova explosions must have taken place in the birth environment of our …