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Two technical breakthroughs make high-quality 2D materials possible

“Researchers have been looking to replace silicon in electronics with materials that provide a higher performance and lower power consumption while also having scalability. An international team is addressing that need by developing a promising process to develop high-quality 2D …

Ultrasonic sensors can safeguard residential gas lines

“UBCO researchers create high-tech system to detect gas leaks. A team of UBC Okanagan researchers is investigating a new method to monitor underground gas pipelines with high-tech sensors that can make it easier to find weaknesses, discrepancies and even a …

UNH InterOperability Lab and Microchip Technology Partner to Expand 1000BASE-T1 PCS and PHY-C Automotive Compliance Testing

“The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced they have expanded testing for the 1000BASE-T1 PCS and PHY Control market to help …

W boson turns 40

“Forty years ago today, physicists at CERN announced to the world that they had discovered the electrically charged carrier of the weak force, one of nature’s four fundamental forces Exactly four decades ago today, on 25 January 1983, physicists …

17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica

“Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons— it’s bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it’s one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites. That’s partly because Antarctica is a desert …

A robot able to “smell” using a biological sensor

“The researchers say that the biological sensor sensitivity to smell is 10,000 times higher than that of existing electronic devices. A new technological development by Tel Aviv University has made it possible for a robot to smell using a …

AD9833 Function Generator

“Build a function generator with an Arduino Nano and a AD9833 Programmable Waveform Generator module. The purpose of the project was to test the Analog Devices AD9833 Programmable Waveform Generator chip. On eBay, Ali-Express and other similar sites you can …

Approaching the terahertz regime

“Room temperature quantum magnets switch states trillions of times per second A class of nonvolatile memory devices, called MRAM, based on quantum magnetic materials, can offer a thousandfold performance beyond current state-of-the-art memory devices. The materials known as antiferromagnets were …

Artifacts, Begone! NIST Improves Its Flagship Device for Measuring Mass

“For the first time, the NIST-4 Kibble balance directly incorporates a quantum standard for electrical resistance. In a brightly lit subterranean lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sits a room-sized electromechanical machine called the NIST …

Project  Beep Beep

Beep Beep

“In order to prevent colony collapse syndrome, we have created an autonomous embedded system to help beekeepers During our 4th year at Polytech Sorbonne, we took part in the conception and set-up of a monitoring embedded system applied on hives …