To demonstrate the ability of the Constrained Cyber Communication device to block a cyberattack on the power grid, researchers constructed a 36-foot long mobile substation…
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Major Milestone As NASA’s X-59 QueSST Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft Comes Together
Artist illustration of the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft, which will soon take skies as NASA’s first purpose-built, supersonic experimental plane in decades. Credit: Lockheed…
View More Major Milestone As NASA’s X-59 QueSST Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft Comes TogetherUsing Graphene Foam To Filter Uranium and Other Heavy Metals From Drinking Water
A reusable 3D functionalized reduced graphene oxide foam (3D‐FrGOF) is used as an in situ electrolytic deposition electrode to extract uranium from contaminated water. Credit:…
View More Using Graphene Foam To Filter Uranium and Other Heavy Metals From Drinking WaterTranslation Software Enables Efficient Storage of Massive Amounts of Data in DNA Molecules
DNA offers a compact way to store huge amounts of data cost-effectively. Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed ADS Codex to translate the 0s and…
View More Translation Software Enables Efficient Storage of Massive Amounts of Data in DNA MoleculesOptical Innovation Key to Unprecedented Accuracy in Beam Control of High-Power Lasers
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser…
View More Optical Innovation Key to Unprecedented Accuracy in Beam Control of High-Power LasersOlympic Sound Design: 3,600 Microphones and Counting
Professor Joshua Reiss from Queen Mary’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science has written for The Conversation on the audio history of the Olympics…
View More Olympic Sound Design: 3,600 Microphones and CountingDecades of Research Brings Quantum Dots to Brink of Widespread Use in a Range of Technology Applications
The tiny specs of matter called quantum dots can be tuned to emit light in specific wavelengths. That’s just one quality that makes them valuable…
View More Decades of Research Brings Quantum Dots to Brink of Widespread Use in a Range of Technology ApplicationsThe First “Bionic Bird” – New Foot for “Mia” the Bearded Vulture
Oskar Aszmann (MedUni Wien), Rickard Branemark (MIT Media Lab USA & Schweden), Sarah Hochgeschurz (VetmedUni Wien), Flavia Restitutti und Attillio Rocchi (beide Dept. Anästhesie der…
View More The First “Bionic Bird” – New Foot for “Mia” the Bearded Vulture“Founding Father” of Lithium-Ion Batteries Helps Solve Persistent 40-Year Problem With His Invention
The “Founding Father” of lithium-ion batteries used SNS neutrons to confirm coating cathode material (blue) with lithium-free niobium oxide (light green) greatly reduced first-cycle capacity…
View More “Founding Father” of Lithium-Ion Batteries Helps Solve Persistent 40-Year Problem With His InventionExtraordinary New Material Converts Waste Heat Into Energy
Purified tin selenide has extraordinarily high thermoelectric performance. Perseverance, Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device, which converts…
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