“Nuclear Batteries” Offer a New Approach to Carbon-Free Energy
Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems. We may be on…
Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems. We may be on…
Scientists develop an energy-efficient strategy to reversibly change ‘spin orientation’ or magnetization direction in magnetite at room temperature. Over the last few decades, conventional electronics…
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Wavsens LLC have developed a method for using radio signals to create real-time images…
Algorand uses a unique architecture developed by MIT Professor Silvio Micali to offer a decentralized, secure, and scalable blockchain. The Republic of the Marshall Islands…
Engineers create seeds for growing near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals. Rice University engineers have created microscopic seeds for growing remarkably uniform 2D perovskite crystals that are…
MIT researchers demonstrate a way to sharply reduce errors in two-qubit gates, a significant advance toward fully realizing quantum computation. MIT researchers have made a…
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered a method that will allow for faster communication systems and better energy-saving electronics. The breakthrough was made…
Fresh water is scarce in many parts of the world and must be obtained at great expense. Communities near the ocean can desalinate seawater for…
Jian Shi Research Group engineers material into promising optoelectronic. Optoelectronic materials that are capable of converting the energy of light into electricity, and electricity into…
A technique for labeling and retrieving DNA data files from a large pool could help make DNA data storage feasible. On Earth right now, there…
ESA is inviting up to 25 committed mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to join…
Let there be light! Ultra-thin film could one day be used on reading glasses. Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed new technology…
With thousands of satellites, each network could beam down tens of terabits per second, filling gaps left by land-based services. In recent months, people have…
Two teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have won first and second place in NASA’s…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers have designed a new kind of laser-driven semiconductor switch that can theoretically achieve higher speeds at higher voltages than…
Field trial shows simple QKD system works with existing telecommunication network in Italy. In a new study, researchers demonstrate an automated, easy-to-operate quantum key distribution…
What Are Quantum Networks? Today’s internet connects us globally. It sends packets of information that carry our communications in classical signals – sent by bursts…
Technology and commercial advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National…