World news

Results: 32792
arrow_upward arrow_downward

Advancement creates nanosized, foldable robots

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial design and high-fidelity sensors.

Mar 19, 2021

Building tough 3D nanomaterials with DNA

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Columbia Engineering researchers, working with Brookhaven National Laboratory, report today that they have built designed nanoparticle-based 3D materials that can withstand a vacuum, high temperatures, high pressure, and high radiation. This new f...

Mar 19, 2021

Research finds surprising electron interaction in 'magic-angle' graphene

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

New research describes a technique that weakens the repulsive force between electrons in 'magic-angle' graphene superconductors, providing physicists with exciting new details about this strange state of matter.

Mar 18, 2021

ColdQuanta Could Become the Fastest Scaling Quantum Computer Approach | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

Nextbigfuture interviewed Tom Noel, ColdQuanta’s Director of Quantum Computing and Interim CEO Dan Caruso. ColdQuanta is using neutral atoms instead of trapped ions as the basis for its quantum computers. ColdQuanta is building a functional first ...

Mar 18, 2021

Researchers help keep pace with Moore's Law by exploring a new material class

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists combine disciplines to tackle the heat problem inherent in bringing integrated circuits to a much smaller scale: Nanoscale thermal transport meets molecular engineering and a new material is created that could keep chips cool.

Mar 18, 2021

Researchers demonstrate practical metal nanostructures

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have debunked the decade-old myth of metals being useless in photonics—the science and technology of light—with their findings, recently published in Nature Communications, expected to lead to many applicati...

Mar 18, 2021

Light it up: Practical metal nanostructures

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have debunked the decade-old myth of metals being useless in photonics - the science and technology of light - with their findings, expected to lead to many applications in the field of nanophotonics.

Mar 18, 2021

Artificial neuron device could shrink energy use and size of neural network hardware

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Neural network training could one day require less computing power and hardware, thanks to a new nanodevice that can run neural network computations using 100 to 1000 times less energy and area than existing CMOS-based hardware.

Mar 18, 2021

Teamwork makes light shine ever brighter: Combined energy sources return a burst of photons from plasmonic gold nanogaps

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Electrical current and laser light combine at a gold nanogap to prompt a dramatic burst of light. The phenomenon could be useful for nanophotonic switches in computer chips and for advanced photocatalysts.

Mar 18, 2021

Catching Electrons in Action in an Antiferromagnetic Nanowire for Ultrahigh-Density Data Storage

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues to new ways to store digital... The post Catching Electrons in Action in an Antiferromagnetic Nanowire for Ultrahigh-Density Data Storage...

Mar 18, 2021

REFINE