A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of T. rex now shows they were adults of a small tyrannosaur, with narrower jaws, longer legs, and bigger arms than T. rex. The species, Nanotyrannus lancensis, was first named decades ago but late...
Jan 2, 2024
As IEEE Spectrum editors, we pride ourselves on spotting promising technologies and following them from the research phase through development and ultimately deployment. In every January issue, we focus on the technologies that are now poised to a...
Jan 2, 2024
Monitoring glucose levels is one of the key elements in health monitoring. A research team from the University of California, Berkeley, has now developed a battery-independent fluorescent nanosensor based on single-wall carbon nanotubes and an ina...
Jan 2, 2024
Researchers from Xiamen Silan Advanced Compound Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Beijing Graphene Institute, and Soochow University have worked together to provide a thorough review that presents a methodical overview of the development and possible uses ...
Jan 2, 2024
Researchers from the Research Institute of Chemical Technology, a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), as well as the ITACA Institute of the UPV, have developed a new, more...
Jan 2, 2024
Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum—are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. But atop the list are a couple of surprises. Numb...
Dec 31, 2023
We probably don't need to worry about quantum computers being able to break encryption in 2024, but cryptographers are planning a security upgrade just in case
Dec 31, 2023
We probably don't need to worry about quantum computers being able to break encryption in 2024, but cryptographers are planning a security upgrade just in case
Dec 31, 2023
We probably don't need to worry about quantum computers being able to break encryption in 2024, but cryptographers are planning a security upgrade just in case
Dec 31, 2023
Researchers at the University of Bologna have introduced and considered a single layer of brucite Mg(OH)2, a 2D material that can be easily produced by exfoliation (like graphene from graphite), for the creation of van der Waals composites (known ...
Dec 31, 2023
