Researchers design multiple strategies for an artificial intelligent (AI) agent to solve a stochastic puzzle like Minesweeper. For decades, efforts in solving games had been…
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Hypersonic missiles can change course to avoid detection and anti-missile defenses. Credit: U.S. Air Force On March 18, 2022, Russia launched a hypersonic missile against…
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Traditional high-quality wide-angle camera lenses are large. New design could enable high-quality wide-angle cameras that can possibly fit into smartphones. Researchers have designed a new…
View More Miniature Wide-Angle Camera – Created With Array of Metalenses – Could Fit Into Smartphones
A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell (size 1 cm x 1 cm) mounted on a heat sink designed to measure the TPV cell efficiency. To measure the…
View More New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Could Fully Decarbonize the Power Grid
A 3D-printed device detects temperature changes when SARS-CoV-2 binds to molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles (ruler shows cm). Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c00100…
View More A More Sensitive and Durable Rapid COVID-19 Test Using Nanoparticles
Scientists’ increasing mastery of quantum mechanics is heralding a new age of innovation. Technologies that harness the power of nature’s most minute scale show enormous…
View More Quantum Internet Breakthrough – Bell State Analyzer Presents Giant Leap Toward Fully Quantum Internet
Cuprous oxide – the mined crystal from Namibia used for making Rydberg polaritons. Credit: University of St Andrews A special form of light made using…
View More Ancient Namibian Gemstone Holds Key to Future Quantum Computers
A German research team has developed a tandem solar cell that reaches 24 percent efficiency – measured according to the fraction of photons converted into…
View More Researchers Set New World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency
Privid’s a privacy-preserving video analytics system supports aggregation queries, which process large amounts of video data. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares “Privid” could help officials gather secure…
View More Security Tool – Privid – Guarantees Privacy in Surveillance Footage
On September 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching…
View More Massive Geomagnetic Storm: Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun Could Knock Out the Power Grid and Internet