New material points toward highly efficient solar cells
A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need to use lead, which has been a major roadblock for this technology.
Nov 12, 2019
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Hardware
Yes, the global microchip shortage is COVID's fault. No, it won't end any time soon
The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years—a global shortage of semiconductors—and there doesn't appear to be an end in sight any time soon.
Jun 2, 2021
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Hardware
Reports: Intel chips have new security flaws
A pair of new security threats to Intel-based computer systems have been revealed. The beleaguered semiconductor chip manufacturer has faced a seemingly endless series of vulnerabilities over the past two years.
Computer Sciences
Mathematicians suggest liquid crystals could be used to create building blocks for a new kind of computer
A pair of researchers at MIT have found evidence suggesting that a new kind of computer could be built based on liquid crystals rather than silicon. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, Žiga Kos and ...
Consumer & Gadgets
New technology predicts when you'll stop playing a slot machine
New technology is headed to a casino near you that can give you a lift when you're down on your slot machine luck or celebrate with you when you win big.
Aug 31, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Novel public-private partnership facilitates development of fusion energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion energy. This work, enabled through ...
Dec 30, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers build transparent conductors without expensive rare-earth indium
Purdue University researchers have created transparent organic conductors from patent-pending polymers that achieve the same results and properties as traditional conductors made from rare-earth minerals but are less expensive ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Robotics
Soft robotic origami crawlers
Materials scientists aim to develop biomimetic soft robotic crawlers including earthworm-like and inchworm-like crawlers to realize locomotion via in-plane and out-of-plane contractions for a variety of engineering applications. ...
Robotics
All-terrain microrobot flips through a live colon
A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, Purdue University engineers have demonstrated in live animal models.
Oct 15, 2020
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Engineering
An electrocaloric heat pump that is more efficient than conventional air conditioners
A team of engineers at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from Murata Manufacturing Company, has developed a regenerative electrocaloric heat pump that is more efficient ...
