This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)--a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory--have wrapped a box of a different kind. Using a one-step chemical syn...
Jan 8, 2019
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers used an ingenious experimental setup and high-energy X-ray beams to observe a high-temperature, high-pressure chemical reaction to establish how the formation...
Jan 8, 2019
Sluggish electron transport kinetics - also known as aging - has hindered the application of graphene, for example, as transparent photodiode sensors in optoelectronics, graphites for effective use as oxygen reducing agents in fuel cells and so ma...
Jan 8, 2019
Last year, IBM hauled a 50-qubit quantum computer to CES. Or, rather, it brought the eye-catching bits -- an intricate collection of tubes and wires that resembled a steampunk chandelier -- and left the more cumbersome cooling and power-m...
Jan 8, 2019
Dutch artist Rubins J. Spaans is known for experimenting with his painting surfaces, which include metal and linen. As a painter, he is accustomed to using pigments and dyes to create different colors, but the availability of hues and saturation w...
Jan 7, 2019
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)--a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory--have wrapped a box of a...
Jan 7, 2019
Scientists have shown that their pioneering single atom technology can be adapted to building 3D silicon quantum chips -- with precise interlayer alignment and highly accurate measurement of spin states. The 3D architecture is considered a major s...
Jan 7, 2019
UNSW researchers at the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) have shown for the first time that they can build atomic precision qubits in a 3-D device—another major step towards a universal quantum comp...
Jan 7, 2019
Scientists have shown for the first time that they can build atomic precision qubits in a 3D device - another major step towards a universal quantum computer.
Jan 7, 2019
A new nanosatellite imaging system developed by Ben-Gurion University (BGU) researchers is able to capture high-resolution images at far less cost than the full-frame, lens-based, or concave mirror systems used on today’s telescopes. The resear...
Jan 7, 2019
