OpenRooms creates photorealistic synthetic scenes from input images or scans, with unprecedented control over shape, materials and lighting. Credit: University of California – San Diego…
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MXene Nanomaterial Offers Flexible and Stretchable High-Capacity Energy Storage
A flexible supercapacitor with electrodes made of wrinkled titanium carbide maintained its ability to store and release electronic charges after repetitive stretching. Credit: American Chemical…
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New Infrared Imager Can Map Out a Person’s Blood Vessels Without Touching the Skin
Thin, Large-Area Device Converts Infrared Light Into Images Seeing through smog and fog. Mapping out a person’s blood vessels while monitoring heart rate at the…
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Pivotal Discovery of Nanomaterial for LEDs: New Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Light Source
Light-emitting diodes made from perovskite nanocrystals (green) embedded in a metal-organic framework can be created at low cost, use earth-abundant materials and remain stable under…
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A universal system for decoding any type of data sent across a network
A new silicon chip can decode any error-correcting code through the use of a novel algorithm known as Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND). Credit:…
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New tool maps future climate costs for airlines, passengers
Industrial and enterprise systems engineering professor Lavanya Marla and her colleagues calculated the relative costs of different methods of responding to flight disruptions caused by…
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NASA Engineers Work To Give Satellite Swarms a Hive Mind
Two satellites on similar orbits collect valuable perspectives on the same part of the atmosphere. Credit: NASA/Sabrina Thompson Swarms of small satellites could communicate amongst…
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Coupling Magnetism and Microwaves To Clamp Down on Noise in Quantum Information
Researchers at Argonne have demonstrated an on-chip quantum circuit and realized strong coupling between a superconducting resonator and a magnetic device. This earlier research introduced…
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Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Entanglement of Three Spin Qubits Achieved in Silicon
Figure 1: False-colored scanning electron micrograph of the device. The purple and green structures represent the aluminum gates. Six RIKEN physicists succeeded in entangling three…
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Magnetic Phenomena Discovery Paves Way to Faster and More Efficient Data Storage
How do magnetic waves behave in antiferromagnets and how do they spread? What role do “domain walls” play in the process? And what could this…
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