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The U.S.-China Chip Ban, Explained

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

It has now been over a month since the U.S. Commerce Department issued new rules that clamped down on the export of certain advanced chips—which have military or AI applications—to Chinese customers. China has yet to respond—but Beijing has multip...

Nov 21, 2022

A combination of ultrasound and nanobubbles allows cancerous tumors to be destroyed without invasive treatments

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

A new technology developed at Tel Aviv University makes it possible to destroy cancerous tumors in a targeted manner, via a combination of ultrasound and the injection of nanobubbles into the bloodstream. According to the research team, unlike inv...

Nov 21, 2022

The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

The 100th anniversary of the invention of the transistor will happen in 2047. What will transistors be like then? Will they even be the critical computing element they are today? IEEE Spectrum asked experts from around the world for their predicti...

Nov 21, 2022

Blue Yeti mics are up to 35 percent off for Black Friday

Engadget   -   General News Websites

Now is the time to splurge on a gift for a rookie podcaster or game streamer. Amazon is running a sale on many Blue microphones for Black Friday, with up to 35 percent off Yeti models. The Blue Yeti Nano is down to $70 (normally $100), while the r...

Nov 21, 2022

Researchers use 'complexity' as a guiding tool to make phase retrieval easier for coherent X-ray imaging

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

Since their discovery by Roentgen in 1895, X-rays have become an effective tool for doctors to take images of their patients' bones, organs and vessels, and make better diagnoses. Scientists have continued this quest to acquire high-resolutio...

Nov 21, 2022

Generating electricity from store-bought, double-sided tape

Tech Xplore   -   Scientific News Websites

Along with bitterly cold temperatures, winter usually brings dry air and the occasional zap of static electricity. Those shocks might be annoying, but researchers are working to harness that otherwise wasted energy with triboelectric nanogenerator...

Nov 21, 2022

Cooling nanoparticles simultaneously independently of their electric charge

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Over the past forty years, physicists have learned to cool increasingly large objects down to temperatures close to the absolute zero: atoms, molecules and, more recently, also nanoparticles consisting of billions of atoms. Whereas one can cool at...

Nov 21, 2022

Nanotechnology platform sensitizes cancer cells to immunotherapy

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Nanoparticles attach immune-activating molecules to solid tumours, leading to a markedly enhanced immune response The post Nanotechnology platform sensitizes cancer cells to immunotherapy appeared first on Physics World.

Nov 21, 2022

UK's quantum computing sector is flourishing after early investment

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

Investment that the UK government started in quantum technologies in 2013 seems to have paid off by enabling the existence of companies at the cutting edge of research

Nov 21, 2022

UK's quantum computing sector is flourishing after early investment

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

Investment that the UK government started in quantum technologies in 2013 seems to have paid off by enabling the existence of companies at the cutting edge of research

Nov 21, 2022

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