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A replacement for traditional motors could enhance next-gen robots

“Researchers at Stanford have designed a spring-assisted actuator – a device that can accomplish dynamic tasks using a fraction of the energy previously required. Whether it’s a powered prosthesis to assist a person who has lost a limb or an …

An endless domino effect

“If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle… it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type of wave or dislocation which behaves like a particle: it can move around but cannot …

Another Serving of Pi: Solidigm SSDs Help Calculate New World Record

“Nearly a petabyte of Solidigm storage computes Pi to 105 trillion digits After successfully breaking the speed record for calculating pi to 100 trillion digits last year, the team at StorageReview has taken it up a notch, revealing all the …

Artificial cartilage with the help of 3D printing

“Growing cartilage tissue in the lab could help patiens with injuries, but it is very hard to make the tissue grow in exactly the right shape. A new approach could solve this problem: Tiny spherical containers are created with a …

Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics: New nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement

“In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists has introduced a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefined the limits of light confinement. This pioneering work, detailed in a study published in Nature …

Chinese team’s memory leap shrinks data centre storage capacity into DVD-sized disk

“Imagine a DVD-sized disk that could store more than 10,000 times the data of a Blu-ray Disc, a feat that could lead to vast savings of storage space and energy in an era of big data and artificial …

Citizen Astronomers and AI Discover 30,000 Ring Galaxies

“Building on the synergy between citizen astronomer classifications and Artificial Intelligence, astronomers have discovered approximately 400,000 spiral galaxies and 30,000 ring galaxies in data from the Subaru Telescope. This is the first example of research building on the …

Correcting an old space-physics error for safer satellites

“The discovery means textbooks will (literally) need to be rewritten. Correcting 50-year-old errors in the math used to understand how electromagnetic waves scatter electrons trapped in Earth’s magnetic fields will lead to better protection for technology in space. “The …

Elegant use of noise for quantum computing

“Scientists around the world work hard to rinse quantum systems for noise, which may disturb the function of tomorrow’s powerful quantum computers. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) have found a way to use noise to process quantum …

Encoding computers of the future

“Researchers develop a computer from an array of VCSELs with optical feedback In our data-driven era, solving complex problems efficiently is crucial. However, traditional computers often struggle with this task when dealing with a large number of interacting variables, leading …