Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Leaks of Microsoft’s Windows 10X for single screen PCs reveal a simplified OS with an emphasis on simplicity. Windows Central and…
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Nanodiamond Sensors Created That Can Act As Both Heat Sources and Thermometers
(a) Illustration of the structure of a nanodiamond quantum sensor coated with a pyrogenic polymer, and how it operates as a hybrid nanoheater/thermometer. (b) Electron…
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Groundbreaking New One-Step Process for Creating Self-Assembled Metamaterials
While studying a thin-film material called strontium stannate (SrSnO3), University of Minnesota researchers noticed the surprising formation of checkerboard patterns at the nano scale similar…
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Giving Computers a Keen Sense of Smell – Researchers Create a Biohybrid Olfactory Sensor
Schematic diagrams showing the network of tubes and channels that make up the VOC sensor. Credit: © 2020 AAAS/Takeuchi et al. A keen sense of…
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Ultrasound “Drills” and Nanodroplets and Prove Effective at Tackling Tough Blood Clots
A new technique, developed by researchers at NC State, UNC, and Michigan, uses an ultrasound “drill” to burst nanodroplets in and around hardened blood clots.…
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Error Protected Quantum Bits Entangled: A Milestone in the Development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
Quantum particles lined up in a lattice form the basis for an error-tolerant quantum processor. Credit: Uni Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Even computers can miscalculate. Already small…
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First Nanomaterial Developed That Demonstrates “Photon Avalanching” – Extreme Nonlinear Optical Behavior and Efficiency
An illustration of the chain-reaction process that underlies the photon avalanching mechanism Columbia Engineering researchers have realized in their nanoparticles. In this process, the absorption…
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Adobe Flash is dead—it’s time to remove it from your computer
Credit: Adobe I had a few emails from readers asking about the end of Adobe Flash and what they should do about it. In case…
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Light-Based Processor Chips Advance Machine Learning
Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Together with an optical frequency comb, the waveguide crossbar array permits highly parallel…
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3D-Printed “Artificial Muscle” Inspired by Color-Changing Octopus Skin
This octopus has color-changing cells, called chromatophores, in its skin, a phenomenon that inspired Rutgers engineers. Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011…
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