Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
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MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs.Credit: Istockphoto images edited by…
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Transition metals stitched into graphene with an electron beam form promising quantum building blocks. Credit: Ondrej Dyck, Andrew Lupini and Jacob Swett/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of…
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This image shows perovskite photovoltaics in the background with individual perovskite crystals shown as colorful units. Credit: CUBE3D Graphic Reducing internal losses could pave the…
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Quantum tunneling. Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz…
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The image shows eight electrodes around a 20-nanometer-thick magnet (white rectangle). The graphene, not show, is less than is less than 1 nanometer thick and…
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The ARC Fusion Pilot Plant concept was developed at MIT as a demonstration of the potential of high-temperature superconducting magnets to reduce the cost and…
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Rice University engineers designed and built windowpanes that redirect sunlight or illumination from indoors to edge-band solar cells. The central layer is a conjugated polymer…
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OLED tattoo devices. Credit: Barsotti – Italian Institute of Technology Scientists at UCL and the IIT -Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) have…
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This soft, stretchy patch can monitor the wearer’s blood pressure and biochemical levels at the same time. Credit: Wang lab/UC San Diego Engineers at the…
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