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Nanoantennas for light controlled electrically

“Researchers at Linköping University have developed optical nanoantennas that can be turned on/off and gradually tuned by applying electrical potentials. The study, which has been published in Advanced Materials, opens for applications including dynamic flat metaoptics and tuneable smart …

NASA’s Perseverance Celebrates First Year on Mars by Learning to Run

“The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of …

New Material Offers Remarkable Combo of Toughness and Stretchiness

“Researchers have created new materials that are very stretchable and extremely tough. “Materials that can be deformed, but that are difficult to break or tear, are desirable,” says Michael Dickey, co-corresponding author of a paper on the work and the …

New power sources

“Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of activists in the 1990s. An MIT scholar examines this unusual story. In the mid-1990s, a few energy activists in Massachusetts had a vision: What …

Nexperia expands its portfolio of ESD protection solutions for automotive ethernet

“Nexperia, the expert in essential semiconductors today announced an expansion to its award-winning portfolio of automotive ethernet ESD protection devices. The three new devices are AEC-Q101 qualified and IEEE OPEN Alliance 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 compliant ElectroStatic Discharge …

Northrop Grumman Sends NASA Science, Cargo to International Space Station

“A fresh supply of 8,300 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:40 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 19, aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, and is …

Perfecting the EV battery recycling process

“​Recycling of electric car batteries can be easier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly, according to a new scientific article from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, which outlines an optimised recycling process. The research, published in the journal Waste Management, has …

Perovskites used to make efficient artificial retina

“Inspired by the human eye, a neuromorphic vision system recognizes handwritten numbers. An artificial electronic retina that can “see” in a similar way to the human vision system and can recognize handwritten digits has been built by KAUST researchers as …

Physicists observe an exotic “multiferroic” state in an atomically thin material

“Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices. MIT physicists have discovered an exotic “multiferroic” state in a material that is as thin as a …

Pico Railway Clock

“Reinvigorating a handsome old clock and making it super-accurate, without any internet. Uses a Raspberry Pi Pico, a radio antenna and a couple of components to emulate a signal from a Mother clock. The DCF77 signal is a radio signal …