San Diego Convention Center Over the last 40 years, OFC (Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition) — to be held March 3-7 at the San Diego Convention Center — has become, globally, the leading event for advances and ne...
Feb 25, 2019
A new device from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) allows users to monitor their level of exposure to sunlight through a UV sensor. Designed as a flexible, transparent, disposable patch, it connects to a mobile device and alerts the user ...
Feb 25, 2019
Scientists have developed a faster way to read information out of qubits, the basic building blocks of a quantum computer.
Feb 25, 2019
Researchers have discovered unexpected phenomena in graphite thanks to their previous research on its two-dimensional (2D) relative - graphene.
Feb 25, 2019
Inserting or tweaking genes in plants is more art than science, but with a new technique, scientists could make genetically engineering any type of plant - in particular, gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9 - simple and quick.
Feb 25, 2019
The potential computing revolution that quantum computers have long promised is based on their weird property called superposition. Namely, qubits can take both logical states 0 and 1 simultaneously, on top of any value in between. By mastering su...
Feb 25, 2019
In recent years, electronic data processing has been evolving in one direction only: the industry has downsized its components to the nanometer range. But this process is now reaching its physical limits. Researchers are therefore exploring spin w...
Feb 25, 2019
MIT researchers have developed a new genetic tool that could make it easier to engineer plants that can survive drought or resist fungal infections. Their technique, which uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into the chloroplasts of plant cells, w...
Feb 25, 2019
Researchers at The University of Manchester in the UK, led by Dr. Artem Mishchenko, Prof Volodya Fal'ko and Prof Andre Geim, have discovered the quantum Hall effect in bulk graphite—a layered crystal consisting of stacked graphene layers. Thi...
Feb 25, 2019
Inserting or tweaking genes in plants is more art than science, but a new technique developed by University of California, Berkeley, scientists could make genetically engineering any type of plant—in particular, gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9—simpl...
Feb 25, 2019
