Marc Wilson: Blood phobia triggers different physical responses to reactions from other phobias
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Electrons travel across the bulb to a collector plate, which creates the output current. Now, it might seem…
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A team of U.S. researchers has uncovered evidence of a newly proposed form of magnetism in an ultrathin…
AI-driven ‘chipflation’ puts chill on electronics purchases
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Coherent control of interacting solid-state spins below the diffraction limit
Togan, E. et al. Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit. Nature 466, 730–734…
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The project, conducted at ETH Zurich, involved two connected cryostats that cooled superconducting units called qubits, which behave…
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Engineers have been using piezoelectric crystals to generate acoustic ripples, surface acoustic waves (SAWs), that propagate along a…
NASA’s New AI Processor Is 500x Faster Than Current Space Computers
Small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor packs the…
Scientists Discover “Hidden” Materials That Could Transform Clean Energy and Batteries
By capturing normally unseen intermediate stages during heating, scientists discovered new materials with unusual properties that could influence…
Scientists Discover a New Way To Control Metals at the Atomic Scale
A new study demonstrates that manipulating atomic-scale interfaces can significantly change how a metal behaves electronically. Credit: Stock…
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Engineers have long treated metals as fixed materials with limited tunability. A new study from the University of…
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Ultrathin 2D materials have long been seen as the key to pushing computer chips beyond current limits. But…