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Alternative to Silicon: Why Perovskites Could Take Solar Cells to New Heights
Perovskites are widely seen as the likely platform for next-generation solar cells, replacing silicon because of its easier manufacturing process, lower cost, and greater flexibility.…
View More Alternative to Silicon: Why Perovskites Could Take Solar Cells to New HeightsMIT Expert on Powerful Computers and Innovation
: A new working paper attempts to quantify the importance of more powerful computers for improving outcomes across society. In it, researchers analyzed five areas…
View More MIT Expert on Powerful Computers and InnovationQuantum Digits Unlock More Computational Power With Fewer Quantum Particles
The Innsbruck quantum computer stores information in individual trapped calcium atoms, each of which has eight states, of which the scientists have used up to…
View More Quantum Digits Unlock More Computational Power With Fewer Quantum ParticlesNew Technology Gives AI Human-Like Eyes
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have created AI technology that mimics the human eye. The technology might result in highly developed artificial intelligence…
View More New Technology Gives AI Human-Like EyesTurning Buildings Into Batteries To Cheaply Improve Power Quality
In order to increase the quality of the electricity in urban areas, a new energy storage idea suggests that we transform tall buildings into batteries.…
View More Turning Buildings Into Batteries To Cheaply Improve Power QualityStanford-Developed Millirobot Swims in Your Body and Delivers Medicine to Places That Need It
A picture of the origami millirobot that can move by spinning. This robot waits to deliver a high-concentration medicament until it reaches the target, as opposed…
View More Stanford-Developed Millirobot Swims in Your Body and Delivers Medicine to Places That Need ItA Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Programming
A new guide on programming quantum algorithms leads programmers through every step, from theory to implementing the algorithms on IBM’s publicly accessible 5-qubit ibmqx4 quantum…
View More A Beginner’s Guide to Quantum ProgrammingFuture Cities Could Be Built Out of Algae-Produced Material
The scientists cultivated coccolithophores, which create the greatest amounts of new calcium carbonate on the planet, and do so more quickly than coral reefs, using…
View More Future Cities Could Be Built Out of Algae-Produced MaterialMIT Professor Wins European Inventor Award for Liquid Metal Batteries
The liquid metal batteries invented by Donald Sadoway consist of three liquid layers of different densities, which naturally separate in the same way as oil…
View More MIT Professor Wins European Inventor Award for Liquid Metal Batteries