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Ordinary Microscope Sees in Super-Resolution With Specially Engineered Light-Shrinking Material
This light-shrinking material turns a conventional light microscope into a super-resolution microscope. Credit: Junxiang Zhao Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed…
View More Ordinary Microscope Sees in Super-Resolution With Specially Engineered Light-Shrinking MaterialExploiting a Strange State of Matter: Researchers Confront Major Hurdle in Quantum Computing
In a series of papers, Rochester researchers report major strides in improving the transfer of information in quantum systems. Quantum science has the potential to…
View More Exploiting a Strange State of Matter: Researchers Confront Major Hurdle in Quantum ComputingThe Robot Smiled Back: Engineers Use AI to Teach Robots to Make Appropriate Reactive Human Facial Expressions
The Robot Smiles Back: Eva mimics human facial expressions in real-time from a living stream camera. The entire system is learned without human labels. Eva…
View More The Robot Smiled Back: Engineers Use AI to Teach Robots to Make Appropriate Reactive Human Facial ExpressionsManufacturing Innovation: Ultrasonic Welding Makes Parts for NASA Missions
This 3D printed radiator for a CubeSat combines aluminum and a small bit of copper to allow heat to spread more evenly across the face.…
View More Manufacturing Innovation: Ultrasonic Welding Makes Parts for NASA MissionsNew Transparent Electrode Developed That Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency
Scientists found using a chromium seed layer allowed them to grow ultrathin gold film that serves as a transparent electrode with good conductivity for perovskite…
View More New Transparent Electrode Developed That Boosts Solar Cell EfficiencyA Quantum Leap for Quantum Computing
UC Riverside will lead collaborative effort at developing scalable quantum computers. The University of California, Riverside, has won a University of California Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative…
View More A Quantum Leap for Quantum ComputingStructure of a Toxic Matter Identified That Destroys the Nerves in the Brain, Causing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases
Alzheimer’s disease – also called dementia – where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and death of neurons, and Parkinson’s disease that…
View More Structure of a Toxic Matter Identified That Destroys the Nerves in the Brain, Causing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s DiseasesSonothermogenetics Can Control Behavior by Stimulating a Specific Target Deep in the Brain
Credit: Washington University In St. Louis New Tool Combines Ultrasound, Genetics to Activate Deep Brain Neurons Neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy have…
View More Sonothermogenetics Can Control Behavior by Stimulating a Specific Target Deep in the BrainDespite fix, Apple has yet to address WebKit security bug affecting iPhone and MacOS
Apple logo. Credit: Unsplash.com While a fix emerged three weeks ago for the WebKit security bug affecting Apple products such as iPhone and Mac, Apple…
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