Engineering
In virtual meetings, it's easy to keep people from talking over each other. Someone just hits mute. But for the most part, this ability doesn't translate easily to recording in-person gatherings. In a bustling cafe, there ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Computers, despite all their apparent complexity, are basically just a large number of electronic switches, flicking on and off in the right order to process digital information. Semiconductor technology has made these switches ...
Jul 10, 2023
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Robotics
Pangolins are fascinating creatures. This animal looks like a walking pine cone, as it is the only mammal completely covered with hard scales. The scales are made of keratin, just like our hair and nails. The scales overlap ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Engineering
5G communications' superfast download speeds rely on the high frequencies that drive the transmissions. But the highest frequencies come with a tradeoff.
Apr 20, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
EPFL researchers have come up with a new approach to electronics that involves engineering metastructures at the sub-wavelength scale. It could launch the next generation of ultra-fast devices for exchanging massive amounts ...
Feb 17, 2023
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Telecom
Crafty hackers can make a tool to eavesdrop on some 6G wireless signals in as little as five minutes using office paper, an inkjet printer, a metallic foil transfer and a laminator.
May 16, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Known by expectant parents as the technology that enables them to see their child for the first time, ultrasound can be used at extremely low frequencies to serve an entirely different purpose. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute ...
Oct 13, 2021
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Engineering
Reporting in the journal Scientific Reports, the team of Tong Xiao, Xiaojun Qiu and Benjamin Halkon highlight the positive impacts for health and wellbeing of their 'virtual Active Noise Control/Cancelation (ANC) headphone' ...
Nov 30, 2020
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Engineering
MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost method to 3-D print ultrathin films with high-performing "piezoelectric" properties, which could be used for components in flexible electronics or highly sensitive biosensors.
Aug 29, 2019
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Engineering
Engineering researchers have demonstrated that a longstanding theoretical method called direct antenna modulation (DAM) has real-world utility for boosting the quality of radio signals when transmitting at high data rates. ...
Apr 2, 2019
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