Headphone designers have to balance scientific limitations with human preferences. What you like to listen to is also important for choosing the right pair. Between…
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One of the World’s Most Precise Microchip Sensors Created – Thanks to a Spiderweb
Artist impression of an artificial spider web probed with laser light. Credit: Optics lab TU Delft A team of researchers from TU Delft managed to…
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Shifting Colors for On-Chip Photonics To Power Next Generation Quantum Computers and Networks
In the top device, two coupled resonators form a figure eight-like structure. Input light travels from the waveguide through the resonators, entering as one color…
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Artificial Intelligence That Understands Object Relationships – Enabling Machines To Learn More Like Humans Do
MIT researchers have developed a machine learning model that understands the underlying relationships between objects in a scene and can generate accurate images of scenes…
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Zero-Emissions Rail and Securing the Grid With Big Batteries on Wheels
Near elimination of air pollution from diesel-electric freight trains by 2025 is now possible by retrofitting them with battery tender cars. Berkeley Lab study shows…
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New World Record: Almost 30% Efficiency for Next-Generation Tandem Solar Cells
The world record cell (here in front of the electron storage ring BESSY II) has an area of about one square centimetre, a typical lab…
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Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Plunged in Cost by 97% – Here’s the Reasons Behind the Rapid Cost Decline
MIT researchers find the biggest factor in the dramatic cost decline for lithium-ion batteries in recent decades was research and development, particularly in chemistry and…
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A Nanoantenna for Long-Distance, Ultra-Secure Quantum Communication
Conceptual illustration of efficient illumination of photons to semiconductor lateral quantum dots, by using a surface plasmon antenna and excitation of electrons in the quantum…
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“Magic Wand” Reveals a Previously Invisible Colorful Nano-World
Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging. Scientists have developed new materials for…
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Beyond Qubits: Cryogenic Chip Is Big Step To Scale Up Quantum Computing
The Cryogenic CMOS chip platform. The chip itself is just below the shining component, which houses the qubits. Credit: University of Sydney Cryogenic chip allows…
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