Today, machine learning permeates everyday life, with millions of users every day unlocking their phones through facial recognition or passing through AI-enabled automated security checks at airports and train stations. These tasks are possible th...
Mar 5, 2021
Researchers have discovered a new two-dimensional material with unprecedented properties: regardless if it is strained or compressed, it always expands. This so-called half-auxetic behavior has not been observed before and is therefore very promis...
Mar 5, 2021
In a new drug screening technique that relies on gold nanorods to twist light, a red glow can signal the failure of a medication being designed to treat amyloid diseases such as Type II diabetes and pancreatic cancer.
Mar 5, 2021
An international research team led by chemist Prof. Thomas Heine of TU Dresden has discovered a new two-dimensional material with unprecedented properties: regardless if it is strained or compressed, it always expands. This so-called half-auxetic ...
Mar 5, 2021
A team of researchers from Nagoya University, Japan, and Technical University of Darmstadt have developed a technique for quantitatively studying the effect of light on nanoscale mechanical properties of thin wafers of semiconductors or any other ...
Mar 5, 2021
While there already are glasses that help compensate for red-green color blindness, the lenses often can't be shaped to users' prescriptions. That's why scientists are now developing a new type of corrective contact lens – and it wa...
Mar 4, 2021
Lack of symmetry in qubits can’t fix errors in quantum computing, but might explain matter/antimatter imbalance. Unexpected twist in the Kibble-Zurek theory offers a new... The post Unexpected Twist in Quantum Physics May Explain Matter/Antimatte...
Mar 4, 2021
Nonlinear optics, a study of how light interacts with matter, is critical to many photonic applications, from the green laser pointers we're all familiar with to intense broadband (white) light sources for quantum photonics that enable optica...
Mar 4, 2021
Instrument at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterials.
Mar 4, 2021
A new path toward sending and receiving information with single photons of light has been discovered by an international team of researchers.
Mar 4, 2021
