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“A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating materials with unique properties, called metamaterials. Their results show the realistic possibility of designing similar self-assembled structures with the potential of creating …
“Columbia engineers create a robot that learns to visually predict how its partner robot will behave, displaying a glimmer of empathy. This “Robot Theory of Mind” could help robots get along with other robots—and humans—more intuitively Like a …
“An international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich has reconstructed solar activity back to the year 969 using measurements of radioactive carbon in tree rings. Those results help scientists to better understand the dynamics of the sun and allow …
“SpaceX launched 60 more of its Starlink satellites on January 20, 2021. SpaceX ultimately intends to launch tens of thousands of these satellites, to provide global internet access. Here’s why astronomers are concerned. SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink internet …
“New photo-ferroelectric materials allow to store information in a non-volatile way using light stimulus. The idea is to create energy efficient memory devices with high performance and versatility to face the challenges of the current society. The study has been …
“There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces around a table according to orderly geometry. And then there are things that defy easy …
“The 2.5 GHz prototype uses 80 times less energy than its semiconductor counterpart, even accounting for cooling Computers use a staggering amount of energy today. According to one recent estimate, data centers alone consume two percent of the world …
“A new kind of robot has been born in Professor Jeong-Yun Sun’s lab, one that takes inspiration from the way spiders spin their webs. Spiders construct webs based on a minimalist framework, which allows them to sense even the …
“SASP™ technology realizes a module small enough to build into a button, bringing added convenience to health management and exercise analysis with wearable devices Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) has developed the world’s smallest (*1) Bluetooth® Low Energy module, with …
“Electrical engineer William Oliver develops technology to enable reliable quantum computing at scale. It was music that sparked William Oliver’s lifelong passion for computers. Growing up in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he was an avid keyboard …