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A joint venture at the nanoscale

“When superconductivity material science meets nuclear physics Imagine a wire with a thickness roughly one-hundred thousand times smaller than a human hair and only visible with the world’s most powerful microscopes. They can come in many varieties, including semiconductors …

A new model of vision

“Computer model of face processing could reveal how the brain produces richly detailed visual representations so quickly. When we open our eyes, we immediately see our surroundings in great detail. How the brain is able to form these richly detailed …

A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics

“Nature paper reports making and moving large-scale hexagonal boron nitride Step by step, scientists are figuring out new ways to extend Moore’s Law. The latest reveals a path toward integrated circuits with two-dimensional transistors. A Rice University scientist and …

Ampere Altra™ - Industry’s First 80-Core Server Processor Unveiled

“Ampere™ announced today that it has begun shipping the Ampere Altra™ processor, the industry’s first 80-core server CPU and the first cloud native CPU for modern cloud and edge computing data centers. Ampere Altra is the company’s next …

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion In The History Of The Universe

“Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away. It …

Bendable, safe, long-lasting and green cement-free concrete developed at Swinburne

“A new type of concrete that is made out of waste materials and can bend under load has been developed and patented by Swinburne researchers Dr Behzad Nematollahi and Professor Jay Sanjayan. This material incorporates industrial waste products such as …

CircuitPython 5.0.0 released

“This is CircuitPython 5.0.0, the latest major revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. 5.0.0 features many improvements and enhancements to displayio, including grayscale OLED and e-paper displays, extensive additions and improvements to BLE …

Energy researchers invent error-free catalysts

“A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Delaware, and University of California Santa Barbara have invented oscillating catalyst technology that can accelerate chemical reactions without side reactions or chemical errors. The groundbreaking …

Enhanced tandem solar cells set new standard in converting light into electricity

“Researchers from U of T Engineering and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have overcome a key obstacle in combining the emerging solar-harvesting technology of perovskites with the commercial gold standard — silicon solar cells. The result is a …

ESP32-S2 SoCs, Modules and Dev Boards Go Into Mass Production

“Espressif announces the beginning of mass production for the whole series of ESP32-S2 SoCs, modules and development boards, which will make their advantages readily available to the entire IoT market. Today Espressif announced that the ESP32-S2 SoC and …