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NASA’s Curiosity Captures Martian Morning, Afternoon in New ‘Postcard’

“Lighting from two times of day was combined for a stunning view of terrain that the rover is leaving behind. After completing a major software update in April, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took a last look at “Marker Band …

New Cesium Atomic Clock Provides Autonomous Precise Time of 100 ns Holdover for Months

“Microchip’s 5071B is a compact commercial timing product offering ease of deployment across multiple industries. From everyday applications such as mobile phones and banking to complex underwater defense missions, the need for synchronized precise timing and frequency solutions is …

New functionality: Bluetooth for Pico W

“In June last year, we launched Raspberry Pi Pico W, a $6 wireless-enabled variant of our Pico platform, built around our RP2040 microcontroller. In the year since, we’ve sold over half a million of these tiny boards, and they …

New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Sensors

“A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has created a new class of materials that can absorb low energy light and transform it into higher energy light. The new material is …

Nordic Semiconductor expands nRF70 Series with nRF7001 Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC for cost-optimized designs

“14Jun 2023Oslo, Norway Product nRF7001 Wi-Fi Connected Health Connected Home Industrial Automation Logistics and smart transportation Retail and Payment Top Story nRF7001 The nRF7001 IC offers a low-cost Wi-Fi 6 solution for low power Wi-Fi IoT products requiring 2.4 …

Powder-filled wires for highly customizable alloys

“A new project aims to aid the fast and efficient production of customised steel workpieces. Some workpieces can’t be successfully manufactured using conventional methods such as casting. In such cases, the obvious choice is to use an additive manufacturing …

Preparing for the next era of neutrino research

“The teams at CERN’s Neutrino Platform are currently upgrading and assembling multiple detectors to help large experiments in the USA and Japan to uncover these mysterious particles. At CERN’s Neutrino Platform on the Laboratory’s Prévessin site in …

Quantum interference of light: an anomalous phenomenon found

“A counterintuitive facet of the physics of photon interference has been uncovered by three researchers of Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. In an article published this month in Nature Photonics, they have put forward a thought experiment that utterly contradicts …

Quantum materials: electron spin measured for the first time

“The measurement took place on “kagome materials”, new quantum materials revolutionising quantum physics due to their magnetic, topological, and superconducting properties. The results obtained could foster new applications in various technological fields, from renewable energy to biomedicine, from electronics to …

Researchers demonstrate noise-free communication with structured light

“The patterns of light hold tremendous promise for a large encoding alphabet in optical communications, but progress is hindered by their susceptibility to distortion, such as in atmospheric turbulence or in bent optical fibre. Now researchers at the University of …