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February 24, 2025

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Scientists Develop Novel Self-Healing Electronic Skin for Health Monitoring

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in wearable health technology by developing a novel self-healing electronic skin (E-Skin) that repairs itself in seconds after damage. This could potentially transform the landscape of personal health ...

School Bans Alone Not Enough to Tackle Negative Impacts of Phone and Social Media Use, Researchers Find

Feb. 5, 2025 — Students attending schools that ban the use of phones throughout the school day aren't necessarily experiencing better mental health and wellbeing, as the first worldwide study of its kind has found ...

Flipping the Script: Inverse-Design as Game-Changer in Physics

Feb. 4, 2025 — Physicists have achieved a breakthrough in data processing by employing an 'inverse-design' approach. This method allows algorithms to configure a system based on desired functions, bypassing manual design and complex simulations. The result is a ...

New Acoustic Wave Phenomenon Discovered

Jan. 29, 2025 — This novel finding regarding the nonreciprocal diffraction of acoustic waves could open doors for next-generation communication ...

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Improving the Way Flash Memory Is Made

Jan. 29, 2025 — The narrow, deep holes required for one type of flash memory are made twice as fast with the right recipe, which includes a plasma made from hydrogen ...

Tiny Chip, Big Breakthrough in Spectral Sensing for Everyday Devices

Jan. 23, 2025 — Engineers have invented a microscopic spectral sensor that can identify myriad materials with unprecedented ...

New Optical Memory Unit Poised to Improve Processing Speed and Efficiency

Jan. 23, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new type of optical memory called a programmable photonic latch that is fast and scalable, enabling temporary data storage in optical processing systems and offering a ...

Scaling Up Neuromorphic Computing for More Efficient and Effective AI Everywhere and Anytime

Jan. 23, 2025 — Neuromorphic computing -- a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain's function and structure -- needs ...

Neuromorphic Semiconductor Chip That Learns and Corrects Itself?

Jan. 21, 2025 — Scientists have developed a computing chip that can learn, correct errors, and process AI ...

A New Optical Memory Platform for Super Fast Calculations

Jan. 15, 2025 — For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore's Law is ending as physical ...

Brain-Inspired Nanotech Points to a New Era in Electronics

Jan. 9, 2025 — Imagine a future where your phone, computer or even a tiny wearable device can think and learn like the human brain -- processing information faster, smarter and using less energy. A breakthrough ...

This Metaphorical Cat Is Both Dead and Alive -- And It Will Help Quantum Engineers Detect Computing Errors

Jan. 14, 2025 — Engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform ...

Engineering Quantum Entanglement at the Nanoscale

Jan. 13, 2025 — Researchers have developed a drastically smaller and more energy efficient method of creating coveted photon pairs that influence each other from any distance. The technology could transform ...

A Smart Ring With a Tiny Camera Lets Users Point and Click to Control Home Devices

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed IRIS, a smart ring that allows users to point and click to control smart devices. The prototype Bluetooth ring contains a ...

Electrohydraulic Wearable Devices Create Unprecedented Haptic Sensations

Jan. 8, 2025 — Scientists have invented compact wearable devices that deliver rich, expressive, and pleasant tactile sensations that go far beyond the buzzing vibrations of today's consumer ...

Macroscopic Oscillators Move as One at the Quantum Level

Jan. 6, 2025 — Scientists have successfully achieved a quantum collective behavior of macroscopic mechanical oscillators, unlocking new possibilities in quantum ...

11 To 12-Year-Olds Use Smartphones Mainly to Talk to Family and Friends

Dec. 26, 2024 — A research group has analyzed the digital ecosystem of 11- to 12-year-old children across the Basque Autonomous Community, and concluded that two out of three own a smartphone. They use smartphones ...

Engineers Grow 'High-Rise' 3D Chips

Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers can now fabricate a 3D chip with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates thick silicon substrates between the layers, ...

Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has Additional Magnetic Properties

Dec. 17, 2024 — The quantum Hall effect, a fundamental effect in quantum mechanics, not only generates an electric but also a magnetic current. It arises from the motion of electrons on an orbit around the nuclei of ...

Microchips Capable of Detecting and Diagnosing Diseases

Dec. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed microchips using field-effect transistors that can detect multiple diseases from a single air sample with high sensitivity. The technology enables rapid testing and could ...

Breakthrough Brings Body-Heat Powered Wearable Devices Closer to Reality

Dec. 12, 2024 — A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...

Unlocking Next-Gen Chip Efficiency: Confirming Thermal Insights for Tiny Circuits

Dec. 12, 2024 — A team of researchers unlock heat flow principles in ultra-thin metals, paving the way for faster, smaller, more efficient computer ...

Uncovering the Pigments and Techniques Used to Paint the Berlin Wall

Dec. 11, 2024 — Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

Rethinking the Quantum Chip

Dec. 10, 2024 — Researchers have realized a new design for a superconducting quantum processor, aiming at a potential architecture for the large-scale, durable devices the quantum revolution demands. Unlike the ...

Battery-Like Computer Memory Keeps Working Above 1000°F

Dec. 9, 2024 — Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...

Photonic Processor Could Enable Ultrafast AI Computations With Extreme Energy Efficiency

Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance could improve the speed ...

Bendable Electronic Parts Heat Up by Themselves Like 'Heat Pack' and Lower the Manufacturing Temperature Barrier

Dec. 2, 2024 — A research team has developed liquid-processed thin-film transistors that can maintain high performance at low temperatures -- They are expected to be used in the next generation of high-performance ...

Reality Check: Making Indoor Smartphone-Based Augmented Reality Work

Nov. 23, 2024 — To understand the practical challenges of indoor augmented reality applications on smartphones, researchers conducted 113 hours of extensive experiments and case studies over 316 patterns to ...

Synchronized Movement Between Robots and Humans Builds Trust, Study Finds

Nov. 20, 2024 — Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have ...

New Method of Generating Eco-Friendly Energy

Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting ...

Leaner Large Language Models Could Enable Efficient Local Use on Phones and Laptops

Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have introduced a technique for compressing a large language model's reams of data, which could increase privacy, save energy and lower costs. The new algorithm works by trimming ...

Bluetooth Technology Unlocks Urban Animal Secrets

Nov. 13, 2024 — Mobile phones could be the key to a cheaper and more reliable way of tracking animals for ecology and conservation research, according to a new ...

New Material to Make Next Generation of Electronics Faster and More Efficient

Nov. 8, 2024 — Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more ...

Could Crowdsourcing Hold the Key to Early Wildfire Detection?

Nov. 7, 2024 — Computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds using a network of low-cost mobile phones mounted on ...