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What you’ll need to survive the California wildfires this summer

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Climate change has transformed the American West into a tinderbox. Temperatures since the start of the century have averaged 2 degrees Fahrenheit higher than any other point in the historical record since 1895. Unprecedented drought conditions and...

Aug 17, 2022

The Morning After: American Airlines is ordering 20 supersonic jets

Engadget   -   General News Websites

American Airlines has agreed to buy 20 Overture aircraft from Boom, with the option to purchase an additional 40 planes if all goes well. The deal is one of the strongest shows of support for Boom yet, surpassing the potential 50-jet commitment Un...

Aug 17, 2022

Naturally Occurring Double-Layer Graphene Used in New Research to Observe Quantum Mechanical Impacts

Science Times   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers have discovered novel quantum effects in high-precision studies of natural double-layer graphene. Read to know more about it.

Aug 17, 2022

Finding Order Using Chaos: Synchronization of Spiking Oscillators Helps Build Physical Reservoirs

Tokyo Institute of Technology   -   Organizations and Universities Websites

Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have demonstrated a computational approach using a ring network of coupled spiking oscillators with chaotic dynamics implemented on analog hardware. This new approach is based on the emer...

Aug 17, 2022

Extracting gold from waste with graphene (w/video)

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have shown that graphene can be a kind of philosopher's stone, allowing gold extraction from waste containing only trace amounts of gold (down to billionth of a percent).

Aug 17, 2022

Researchers realize two coherently convertible qubit types using a single ion species

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Trapped ion computers are quantum computers in which the qubits (quantum units of information) are ions trapped by electric fields and manipulated with lasers. To avoid crosstalk between nearby qubits, physicists and engineers design these compute...

Aug 17, 2022

Graphene as 'the philosopher's stone': Turning waste into gold

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Throughout history, alchemists believed in the existence of the philosopher's stone: a substance that could turn cheap substances into precious gold. Now scientists from The University of Manchester, Tsinghua University in China and the Chine...

Aug 17, 2022

2D Materials for Next Generation Computing

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In a compact comment published in Nature Communications, Graphene Flagship and 2D-EPL researchers outline the most promising fields of applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials, as well as their remaining challenges towards the appearance of ...

Aug 17, 2022

Plasmonics-Based COVID-19 Test Delivers Results in POC Settings

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Rover Diagnostics, a Columbia Technology Ventures company, used plasmonic nanoparticles with compact optics to develop a real-time, multiplexed, reverse-transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction (...

Aug 17, 2022

Superatomic magnetic cluster opens the door to new nanomaterials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

In this study, researchers first theoretically predicted, designed, and then synthesized a new, extremely small, thermally stable magnetic nanoparticle. The nanoparticle is designed to be a small symmetric cluster of atoms that acts as a superatom.

Aug 17, 2022

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