A cartoon schematic of a silicon heterojunction solar cell and it’s photo-generated charges. The numbers correspond to three of the major electrical noise signals identified…
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New Smart Cement Invented for Building More Durable Roads and Cities
Professor Ange-Therese Akono holds a sample of her smart cement. Credit: Northwestern University Incorporating nanomaterials into traditional cement improves water and fracture resistance. Forces of…
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Harvard-MIT Quantum Computing Breakthrough – “We Are Entering a Completely New Part of the Quantum World”
Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created. A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities…
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Breakthrough: The World’s Thinnest Technology – Only Two Atoms Thick
Illustration. Credit: Tel Aviv University A scientific breakthrough: Researchers from Tel Aviv University have engineered the world’s tiniest technology, with a thickness of only two…
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Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve GPS, Increase Spacecraft Autonomy
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been operating aboard the General Atomics Orbital Test Bed satellite since June 2019. This illustration shows the spacecraft in…
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Engineering Breakthrough Paves Way for Chip Components That Could Serve As Both RAM and ROM
Year after year, the explosive growth of computing power relies on manufacturers’ ability to fit more and more components into the same amount of space…
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Nanoscale Research Paves Way for “Next-Generation” Li-Ion Batteries
A recent study from Penn Engineering researchers provides new insights into why silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries rapidly degrade and fail. Using advanced imaging techniques…
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Making Seawater Drinkable in Minutes: A New Alternative Desalination Membrane
Schematic of co-axial electrospinning device. Credit: Elsevier A new alternative seawater desalination membrane to produce drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, about 785…
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Growing “Metallic Wood” to New Heights: Radically Decreasing a Material’s Density Without Sacrificing Strength
This strip of metallic wood, about an inch long and one-third inch wide, is thinner than household aluminum foil but is supporting more than 50…
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Creating Precise Colors: New Algorithms Give Digital Images More Realistic Color
The new approach for digitizing color can be applied to cameras, displays and LED lighting. Because the color space studied isn’t device dependent, the same…
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