A team of researchers at NTT Corporation has developed a way to use light-based computer hardware that allows it to to compete with silicon. In their paper published in the journal Nature Photonics, the group describes their research, the devices they created and how well they worked. Computer scientists have known for some time that the […]
Forcing a Metal To Be a Superconductor via Rapid Chilling
A team of researchers with the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and The University of Tokyo, both in Japan, has found a way to force a metal to be a superconductor by cooling it very quickly. In their paper published on the open access site, Science Advances, the group describes their process and how […]
A Way To Use Underwater Fiber-Optic Cables As Seismic Sensors
A team of researchers from the U.K., Italy and Malta has found a way to use fiber-optic cables already on the ocean floor as seismic detectors. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they made their discovery and how it would work. As the researchers note, there are approximately 1 million kilometers of […]
NASA Funds Project To Study Feasibility Of Using Robot Bees To Study Mars From A New Perspective
NASA has announced that it has awarded funding to a combined team of researchers from the University of Alabama and an unnamed team in Japan for development of a new kind of Mars explorer. The project team has been awarded $125,000 to develop what NASA calls Marsbees—a swarm of robot bees that could fly in the thin […]
A Single Magnetic Skyrmion Detected At Room Temperature For The First Time
A team of researchers from CNRS, Thales and the Université Paris-Saclay, all in France has for the first time detected a single skyrmion at room temperature. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the group describes their efforts, what they achieved and future avenues of research efforts. Five years ago, a team at the […]
Tiny ‘Hygrobots’ Need No Batteries
A team of researchers at Soul National University has developed a series of small robots that move without need for an engine or batteries. Instead, as the researchers explain in their paper published in the journal Science Robots, the hygrobots, as they are called, move due to absorption and evaporation of water. Some seeds are […]