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Enriching solid-state batteries

“MIT researchers demonstrate a method to make a smaller, safer, and faster lithium-rich ceramic electrolyte. Researchers at MIT have come up with a new pulsed laser deposition technique to make thinner lithium electrolytes using less heat, promising faster charging and …

Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

“When you look through your viewfinder and things seem a little bit blurry or lacking definition, it’s probably because you are using an “el cheapo” lens. So you read reviews and buy a much more expensive lens, and what …

In world first, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe collects samples from distant asteroid after second successful touchdown

“The Hayabusa2 probe made a “perfect” touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid and collected samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system. “We’ve collected a part of …

Intel Unveils New Tools in Its Advanced Chip Packaging Toolbox

“This week at SEMICON West in San Francisco, Intel engineering leaders provided an update on Intel’s advanced packaging capabilities and unveiled new building blocks, including innovative uses of EMIB and Foveros together and a new Omni-Directional Interconnect (ODI) technology …

Jellyfish-inspired robot wins Best Paper Award in prestigious robotics conference

“The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart who invented Jellyfishbot win the Best Paper Award at a prestigious robotics conference and have their work published in Nature Communications. Their research holds great potential when investigating …

Linux Kernel 5.2 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

“Linus Torvalds has announced today the release and general availability of the Linux 5.2 kernel series, a major release that adds several new features, updated drivers, and many improvements. After seven RCs (Release Candidates), the Linux 5.2 kernel …

Localised excitons in 2D materials for integrated quantum optics

“NUS scientists have found that the oxygen interstitials in single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) enable it to function as single photon emitters (SPEs) for quantum optical applications. Two-dimensional (2D) materials with atomically thin honeycomb-like lattices were recently discovered experimentally for use …

Making wireless communication more energy efficient

“Along with studying theory, “it’s also important to me that the work we are doing will help to solve real-world problems,” says LIDS student Omer Tanovic. Omer Tanovic, a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer …

Micro ring resonator has highest quality factor to date

“MIT, Singapore researchers show high-quality photonic device based on amorphous silicon carbide. Researchers at MIT and Singapore University of Technology (SUTD) have demonstrated a micro ring resonator made of amorphous silicon carbide with the highest quality factor to date. The …

Microrobots to change the way we work with cellular material

“In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in the lab of Professor Aaron Wheeler (Chemistry, IBBME) have demonstrated a novel and non-invasive way to manipulate cells through microrobotics. Cell manipulation — which requires …