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Single-Photon Detector Can Count Four Photons at Once

Engineers have shown that a widely used method of detecting single photons can also count the presence of at least four photons at a time. The researchers say…

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New System Tackles Monkeypox Outbreak in Nigeria

German scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) in Braunschweig and Nigerian…

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Gecko Adhesion Tech: Advancing Toward Industrial Applications

While human-made devices inspired by gecko feet have emerged in recent years, enabling their wearers to slowly scale a glass wall, the possible applications of…

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New Silicon Structure Unlocks Quantum Computing Potential

The team constructed a gate that controls interactions between the electrons in a way that allows them to act as the quantum bits of information, or qubits,…

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PhoxTroT: Advancing Optical Interconnects for Data Centers

To ensure a constant availability of the Internet applications of service providers like Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon in all areas independently if they…

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Smartphone Case Transforms Blood Glucose Monitoring On-the-Go

Currently, checking blood sugar levels can be a hassle for people with diabetes, especially when they have to pack their glucose monitoring kits around with…

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Rules for superconductivity mirrored in 'excitonic insulator'

Rice University physicists dedicated to creating the working components of a fault-tolerant quantum computer have succeeded in creating a previously unseen…

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Single Molecule Data Storage: The Next Step in Innovation

Over the past few years, the building blocks of storage media have gotten ever smaller. But further miniaturization of the current technology is hindered by…

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GigaDalton DNA Nanotech: A 100-Fold Leap in Innovation

DNA, present in almost every cell, is increasingly being used as a building material to construct tiny, but sophisticated structures such as autonomous 'DNA…

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TACNET 4.0 – German industry consortium develops system for real time industrial networks

Germany is scheduled to launch the 5th generation equipment and infrastructure (5G) in the year 2020. The future network will enable very high data rates and…

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3-D Printed Objects Connect to WiFi Without Electronics

University of Washington researchers are the first to make this a reality by 3-D printing plastic objects and sensors that can collect useful data and…

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Unlocking Blockchain: Innovative Use Cases for Germany’s Future

„Da sich Deutschland momentan noch im Blockchain-Winterschlaf befindet, wollten wir mit dieser Konferenz einen Weckruf starten. Die Erforschung von Use Cases,…

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Exploring CBRAM: The Future of Computer Memory Technology

CBRAM (conductive bridging random access memory) could play a fundamental role in memory in the future by storing data in a non-volatile (i.e., near-permanent)…

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AI Combats Fake News: Innovative Solutions Unveiled

“We optimize when and what story to send for fact checking, so less people get exposed to fake news without knowing that they may be fake”, Manuel Gomez…

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5G Networks May Slow in Heat, But Solutions Are Emerging

Forthcoming 5G cellular systems could support applications requiring ultra-fast processing speeds by tapping into super-high frequency radio waves, which would…

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Next-Gen Hardware Security: A Breakthrough Just Atoms Thick

The next generation of electronic hardware security may be at hand as researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering introduce a new class of…

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