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Superfast Fluorescence Breaks Speed Record for Optical Computing

Researchers have developed an ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second and could form the basis of optical computing.

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EXTOLL introduces the HPC network chip TOURMALET™

TOURMALET 100G incorporates the complete EXTOLL network technology in a single-chip solution. The EXTOLL network is a direct network, i.e. no external switches…

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Simulations Drive Development of Near-Frictionless Material

While reviewing the simulation results of a promising new lubricant material, Argonne researcher Sanket Deshmukh stumbled upon a phenomenon that had never been…

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New Method Combines Crystals to Control Light Propagation

A method for designing materials capable of slowing the propagation of light over a broad range of wavelengths has been developed by researchers at the A*STAR…

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Siemens Launches Cost-Effective Scalance XB-200 Ethernet Switches

Siemens is expanding its range of managed Industrial Ethernet switches with a new product line. The cost-effective Layer 2 Scalance XB-200 switches provide…

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Eurotech delivers the “Booster” system to Jülich to complete the DEEP supercomputer

With this delivery, the DEEP consortium can leverage a supercomputer with a peak performance of 505 TFlop/s and an efficiency of over 3 GFlop/s per Watt. The…

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Wireless Data Delivery via Active TV Channels: Rice Breakthrough

Rice University engineers have demonstrated the first system that allows wireless data transmissions over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts. If the…

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New super-computer for climate science ranks among world’s top 400

“The new computer is to us what a research vessel is to other institutes – it allows us to explore the seas of the unknown, only that our oceans consist of…

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Steady Aerial Videos: Innovation from TU Wien and Dynamic

Up until now, the thought of capturing steady video footage from a roller coaster would have seemed virtually inconceivable. However, TU Wien and Dynamic…

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Graphene Film: New Method for Efficient Electronic Cooling

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film. The film has a thermal…

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Discover FotoQuest Austria: Join the Citizen Science Adventure

IIASA researchers today launched a summer-long citizen science campaign, FotoQuest Austria. The new game-like app allows participants to take geo-located…

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Empowering Communities in Crisis: Innovative Solutions Unveiled

Lengthy power outages, severe storms or large scale flooding such as happened in Southern Germany in 2013: they all show our society’s vulnerability to…

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SASER-Siegfried: 38.4 Tbps Fiber Optic Breakthrough

For the first time, several tens of terabits per second (i.e. 38.4 Tbps) have been transported over a 762 kilometers Lyon-Marseille-Lyon fiber optic link in…

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Minuscule Mirrored Cavities Enhance Quantum Memory Science

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First Highly Ordered Molecular Framework Solar Cell Unveiled

“We have opened the door to a new room,” says Professor Christof Wöll, Director of KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG). “This new application of…

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Indiana University Develops Algorithm for Fact-Checking Accuracy

In the first use of this method, IU scientists created a simple computational fact-checker that assigns “truth scores” to statements concerning history,…

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