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MIT engineers develop “blackest black” material to date

“Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materials. With apologies to “Spinal Tap,” it appears that black can, indeed, get more black. MIT engineers report today that they have cooked up a …

New approach suggests path to emissions-free cement

“MIT researchers find a way to eliminate carbon emissions from cement production — a major global source of greenhouse gases. It’s well known that the production of cement — the world’s leading construction material — is a major source of greenhouse …

New health monitors are flexible, transparent and graphene enabled

“ICFO researchers develop low-power wearable devices that can monitor multiple vital signs of humans. New technological devices are prioritizing non-invasive tracking of vital signs not only for fitness monitoring, but also for the prevention of common health problems such as …

New Metamaterial Morphs Into New Shapes, Taking on New Properties

“A newly developed type of architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion. While most reconfigurable materials can toggle between two distinct states, the way a switch toggles on or off, the new material’s shape …

‘Poor man’s qubit’ can solve quantum problems without going quantum

“Researchers demonstrate the first hardware for a ‘probabilistic computer’ It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today’s classical computers aren’t fast or efficient enough to solve, but the emerging “probabilistic computer …

Samsung Brings Revolutionary Software Innovation to PCIe Gen4 SSDs for Maximized Storage Performance

“Industry’s highest-performing SSDs integrate three key software technologies: ‘fail-in-place’, ‘SSD virtualization’ and ‘V-NAND machine learning’ PM1733 and PM1735 series, offered in 19 models, deliver twice the speed of Gen3 SSDs at up to 8,000MB/s Samsung Electronics …

Shape-shifting robots built from smarticles could navigate Army operations

“A U.S. Army project took a new approach to developing robots — researchers built robots entirely from smaller robots known as smarticles, unlocking the principles of a potentially new locomotion technique. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Northwestern University …

‘Soft Tactile Logic’ Tech Distributes Decision-Making Throughout Stretchable Material

“Inspired by octopuses, researchers have developed a structure that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing – creating a device that is not quite a robot and not quite a computer, but has characteristics of both. The new technology holds …

STMicroelectronics Brings 32-Bit-MCU Possibilities to Simple Applications with First 8-Pin STM32 Microcontrollers

“8-pin STM32G0 devices combine performance, compactness, flexibility, and power efficiency STM32 microcontrollers (MCU) from STMicroelectronics are now available in an 8-pin package, enabling simple embedded projects to leverage 32-bit performance and flexibility in a compact and cost-effective outline. STMicroelectronics Brings …

Team closes in on ‘holy grail’ of room temperature quantum computing chips

“To process information, photons must interact. However, these tiny packets of light want nothing to do with each other, each passing by without altering the other. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have coaxed photons into interacting with one …