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Researchers Design Efficient Low-Cost System for Producing Power at Night

“Rooftop radiative cooling system could provide lighting power when solar energy is unavailable Researchers have designed an off-grid, low-cost modular energy source that can efficiently produce power at night. The system uses commercially available technology and could eventually help meet …

Researchers unlock secrets of the past with new international carbon dating standard

“The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international colleagues, used measurements from almost 15,000 samples from objects dating back as far as 60,000 years ago, as …

Samsung Announces Availability of its Silicon-Proven 3D IC Technology for High-Performance Applications

“Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the immediate availability of its silicon-proven 3D IC packaging technology, eXtended-Cube (X-Cube), for today’s most advanced process nodes. Leveraging Samsung’s through-silicon via (TSV) technology, X-Cube enables significant …

Scientists create brightest-known fluorescent materials in existence

“Fluoro highlighters, glow-in-the-dark paints or even high-viz witch’s hats are bright, but they are nothing compared to these balls. Scientists in the US and Denmark have created the brightest-known fluorescent materials in existence, by figuring out a reliable way …

Scientists create compact particle accelerators which drive 1000 times more charge to near the speed of light

“Scientists have successfully developed a pocket-sized particle accelerator capable of projecting ultra-short electron beams with laser light at more than 99.99% of the speed of light. To achieve this result, the researchers have had to slow down light to …

Storing energy in red bricks

“Imagine plugging in to your brick house. Red bricks — some of the world’s cheapest and most familiar building materials — can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new …

UChicago scientists discover way to make quantum states last 10,000 times longer

“Simple innovation expected to open multiple new avenues for quantum science If we can harness it, quantum technology promises fantastic new possibilities. But first, scientists need to coax quantum systems to stay yoked for longer than a few millionths of …

Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage

“What if you could solve two of Earth’s biggest problems in one stroke? UC Riverside engineers have developed a way to recycle plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage. Mihri and …

Yale quantum researchers create an error-correcting cat

“Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat — a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a …

3D nanometer-thin membrane borrows from biology

“Mimicking the structure of the kidney, a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have created a three-dimensional nanometer (nm)-thin membrane that breaks the permeance-selectivity trade-off of artificial membranes …