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“In the next decade, nearly every consumer gadget, every household appliance, and every industrial device will be connected to the Internet. These connected devices will also become more intelligent with the ability to predict, talk, listen, and more. The companies …
“A breakthrough in enzyme research led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the United Kingdom’s University of Portsmouth has led to an improved variant of an enzyme that can break down …
“Information processing requires a lot of energy. Energy-saving computer systems could make computing more efficient, but the efficiency of these systems can’t be increased indefinitely, as ETH physicists show. As steam engines became increasingly widespread in the 19th century …
“Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) continue to pioneer new antenna measurement methods, this time for future 5G wireless communications systems. NIST’s new Large Antenna Positioning System (LAPS) has two robotic arms designed to position …
“Like a yoga novice, electronic components don’t stretch easily. But that’s changing, thanks to a variation of origami that involves cutting folded pieces of paper. In a study published April 2 in the journal Advanced Materials, a UB …
“Ferroelectric crystals display a macroscopic electric polarization, a superposition of many dipoles at the atomic scale which originate from spatially separated electrons and atomic nuclei. The macroscopic polarization is expected to change when the atoms are set in motion but …
News 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen Processors: Ultimate Desktop CPUs for High-Performance Computing Available April 19 Worldwide
“2nd generation AMD Ryzen processor lineup offers world’s highest multithreaded performance desktop processors in its class; immediate pre-order availability from more than 150 retailers and boutique PC manufacturers One year after the first release of the award-winning AMD Ryzen …
“A 3D force sensor that can image single trapped ions with a resolution on the sub-attonewton scale could be used in a number of practical areas, including as a probe to detect the electric fields surrounding biomolecules and nanoparticles, and …
“An international group of scientists from Russia, the United Kingdom, and Germany have presented an alternative qubit design which can be used to build a quantum computer. Nano-wires made of superconductors are the design’s main elements. In the first …
“Lasting just a few hundred billionths of a billionth of a second, these bursts offer new tool to study chemistry and magnetism. The Science Reactions in solar panels, catalytic converters, and other devices are governed by the quick motion of …