Lunabotics Junior Contest: NASA Challenges Students to Design Moon-Digging Robots
NASA seeks young engineers to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to…
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New Photonic Chip for Isolating Light May Be Key to Miniaturizing Quantum Technology
Light offers an irreplaceable way to interact with our universe. It can travel across galactic distances and collide with our atmosphere, creating a shower of…
Affordable Saliva-Based COVID-19 Test May Provide At-Home Results in 30 Minutes
Penn State electrical engineering professor Aida Ebrahimi receives NIH Trailblazer Award to develop a daily testing device. Current COVID-19 tests require laboratory processing, resulting in…
Artificial Intelligence Is Smart, but It Doesn’t Play Well With Others
Humans find AI to be a frustrating teammate when playing a cooperative game together, posing challenges for “teaming intelligence,” study shows. When it comes to…
Topological Circuits That Force Photons To Never Bounce Back
EPFL scientists have developed a topology-based method that forces microwave photons to travel along a path, despite unprecedented levels of disorder and obstacles on their…
World’s Smallest Brain-Inspired Computer – So Small That It Can Harvest Its Energy Itself
The energy consumption of the device will be so small that it can harvest its energy itself, directly from its surroundings. The project has received…
Newly Discovered Family of 2D Semiconductors Enables More Energy-Efficient Electronic Devices
SUTD researchers show how a newly discovered family of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are more energy-efficient thanks to the presence of a built-in atomic protection layer….
New Chip Can Decode Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network
New chip eliminates the need for specific decoding hardware, could boost efficiency of gaming systems, 5G networks, the internet of things, and more. Every piece…
Walking with Coffee Is a Little-Understood Feat of Physics – Important for Robotics and Automation
Understanding the physics behind natural processes provides new applications for soft robotics, manufacturing automation. Walking with coffee is something most of us do every day…
ARROW: Who Can Bend Light for Cheaper Internet?
ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law. Wide Area Networks (WANs), the global backbones…
New Molecular Computing Device Has Unprecedented Reconfigurability Reminiscent of Brain Plasticity
In a discovery published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers has described a novel molecular device with exceptional computing prowess. Reminiscent of…
Photonic Chip Breakthrough Opens a Path Toward Quantum Computing in Real-World Conditions
Quantum Computing Platform Accelerates Transition from Bulk Optics to Integrated Photonics on a Silicon Chip Smaller Than a Penny The quantum computing market is projected…
Physicists Discover New Electronic Phenomenon
Physics researchers at the University of North Florida’s Atomic LEGO Lab discovered a new electronic phenomenon they call “asymmetric ferroelectricity”. The research led by Dr….
Twilight for Silicon? End of “Moore’s Law” in View As Silicon Chip Density Nears Physical Limit
Fueled faster, better computing for decades, ever-increasing silicon chip density nears physical limit. Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shed new light on “Moore’s Law”…
MIT’s Nimbus Solar Car Wins 2021 American Solar Challenge
Student-designed Nimbus solar car travels 1,109 miles in five days, averaging 38.4 miles per hour. After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric…
“Missing Puzzle Piece” Discovered: Critical Advance in Quantum Computer Design
Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have removed a major obstacle that has stood in the way of quantum computers becoming a reality: they discovered a…
Say Goodbye to the Dots and Dashes: Enhanced Optical Storage Media
Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters” to modernize optical storage. They are confident the advancement will…
New Device Harvests Power From Your Sweaty Fingertips While You Sleep
This video shows a left hand with 4 BFCs wrapped onto four individual fingers to collect energy simultaneously from multiple fingers. Credit: Lu Yin Feeling…