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NASA’s Newest Wearable Technology Takes on the Human Shoulder

“You’ve heard of NASA’s X1 robotic exoskeleton, right? It’s the robot a human can wear over his or her body to either assist or inhibit movement in leg joints. Well, now NASA’s Wearable Robotics Laboratory, in …

Nokia, Vodafone To Install 4G on the Moon

“There are parts of the world still without mobile service. But Nokia and Vodafone are bringing 4G coverage to the moon. The first cosmic cellular network will support a planned lunar landing by private space company PTScientists. Celebrating 50 years …

Scientists find ‘frustration’ in battery materials

“Adding carbon atoms to a new type of solid lithium ion battery could make it charge faster and more safely. Solid-state lithium-ion batteries can provide dramatically improved safety, voltage and energy density compared with today’s batteries, which use liquid …

Teaching quantum physics to a computer

“An international collaboration led by ETH physicists has used machine learning to teach a computer how to predict the outcomes of quantum experiments. The results could prove to be essential for testing future quantum computers. Physics students spend many years …

Atomic design by water

“Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung show how geometric structures at surfaces can be formed with atomic precision by water A central element in such diverse technological problems as corrosion protection, battery materials or hydrogen production via electrolysis or fuel …

CIOMP researchers developed an ultrasensitive label-free microfiber coupler biosensor

“Recently, an ultrasensitive label-free microfiber coupler biosensor was developed by Prof.’s Yihui Wu’s group in State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, CIOMP. Such immunosensors have huge application potential for the detection of cardiac or cancer biomarkers due to …

Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive

“A new technique developed by neuroscientists at U of T Scarborough can, for the first time, reconstruct images of what people perceive based on their brain activity gathered by EEG. The technique developed by Dan Nemrodov, a postdoctoral fellow in …

Exotic State of Matter: An Atom Full of Atoms

“Scientists from TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) and the USA have provided proof for a new state of matter: an electron orbits a nucleus at a great distance, while many other atoms are bound inside the orbit. What is inside an …

Intel Ships Industry’s First 58G PAM4-Capable FPGA Built for Multi-Terabit Network Infrastructure and NFV

“Intel today announced it has begun shipping its Intel® Stratix® 10 TX FPGAs, the industry’s only field programmable gate array (FPGA) with 58G PAM4 transceiver technology. By integrating the FPGA with 58G PAM4 technology, Intel Stratix 10 TX FPGAs …

Microsoft updates its Quantum Development Kit and adds support for Linux and Mac

“Today we’re announcing updates to our Quantum Development Kit, including support for macOS and Linux, additional open source libraries, and interoperability with Python. These updates will bring the power of quantum computing to even more developers on more platforms …