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Polymers join forces to deliver

“Odorless route to polymeric delivery systems is safer and cheaper An affordable, heavy metal- and odor-free method for making hollow polymer nanostructures has been designed by A*STAR researchers. These structures could find use as delivery systems for personal care …

Powering devices - with a desk lamp?

“Batteries power most of our devices, and even some cars. But researchers now report in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces a step toward running electronic devices in homes and offices on the light coming from lamps scattered around the room. The …

Quantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields

“MIT researchers find a new way to make nanoscale measurements of fields in more than one dimension. A new way of measuring atomic-scale magnetic fields with great precision, not only up and down but sideways as well, has been developed …

Researchers Put Machine Learning on Path to Quantum Advantage

“There are high hopes that quantum computing’s tremendous processing power will someday unleash exponential advances in artificial intelligence. AI systems thrive when the machine learning algorithms used to train them are given massive amounts of data to ingest, classify …

Ultrathin and ultrafast: scientists pioneer new technique for two-dimensional material analysis

“Discovery allows scientists to look at how 2D materials move with ultrafast precision. Using a never-before-seen technique, scientists have found a new way to use some of the world’s most powerful X-rays to uncover how atoms move in a …

30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web

“Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything.’ Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web In 1989 the …

A Milestone in Moving Data

“Compute Express Link Technology will Improve Performance and Remove Bottlenecks in Computation-Intensive Workloads As part of my job leading the data-centric groups at Intel, I regularly meet with customers from across many different industries. They all face unique business challenges …

A recipe for beating the record of most-calculated digits of pi

“Today, March 14, is Pi Day (3.14). Here at Google, we’re celebrating the day with a new milestone: A team at Google has broken the Guinness World Records title for most accurate value of pi. Whether or not …

Breakthrough could enable infrared cameras for electronics, self-driving cars

“Quantum dots could make technology cheaper, more widely available There’s an entire world our eyes miss, hidden in the ranges of light wavelengths that human eyes can’t see. But infrared cameras can pick up the secret light emitted …

Breakthrough research using quantum cryptography addresses security in 5G networks

“New research has demonstrated a ground-breaking solution for securing future critical communications infrastructures, including emerging 5G networks. The research addresses widely reported concerns on security vulnerability of 5G networks which are predicted to transform the telecommunications industry in the next …