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Supercomputer Confirms 2015 India/Pakistan Heat Waves Study

Three researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among the co-authors on the paper, which is included in “Explaining Extreme…

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Effortless Condition Monitoring for Aging Infrastructure

Ageing infrastructure systems pose great challenges for us to accommodate both, technical progress and steadily rising mobility. Requirements for technical…

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Meet the New Robot with a Human Touch in Robotics Innovation

A group led by Robert Shepherd, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and principal investigator of Organic Robotics Lab, has published a…

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Finger swipe-powered phone? We're 1 step closer

The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking is now much closer.

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New Method Simplifies Construction of Quantum Computers

Scientists at the University of Sussex have invented a ground-breaking new method that puts the construction of large-scale quantum computers within reach of…

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Algorithm Enhances Online Mapping for Disaster Response

When an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Yingjie Hu's home province of Sichuan, China, in 2008, he was more than 1,000 miles away attending college in Shanghai….

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New Standard Enhances Precision of Optical Trackers

To make that measurement more reliable, a public-private team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a new standard test…

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Innovative Adaptive Production Planning: Meeting Customization Demands

Nowadays, many customers demand customized products in small-scale series as well as quick deliveries. This puts high requirements on production planning and…

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2×1.7-Terabit/s eye-safe optical link demonstrated over 380 meters at Fraunhofer HHI

The measured bit-error rate of the channels fluctuated between 1E-8 and 0 without forward error correction.

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Exploring Genetic Material-Based Computers: A New Frontier

At first glance, it resembles wormy lines in front of a black background. But what the electron microscope shows up close is that the nanometer-sized…

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NASA's NavCube could support an X-ray communications demonstration in space — a NASA first

The new technology, called NavCube, combines NASA's SpaceCube, a reconfigurable and fast flight computing platform, with the Navigator Global Positioning…

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Weakness is good…when controlling light

It's a paradox that has long vexed researchers in the field of optics.

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Fraunhofer FIT joins Facebook's Telecom Infra Project

At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in late February Facebook introduced the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). TIP aims to bring together operators,…

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Stanford’s New Special-Purpose Computer Could Save Billions

Now, an entirely new type of computer that blends optical and electrical processing, reported Oct. 20 in the journal Science, could get around this impending…

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New 3-D Wiring Technique Advances Scalable Quantum Computing

“The quantum socket is a wiring method that uses three-dimensional wires based on spring-loaded pins to address individual qubits,” said Jeremy Béjanin, a PhD…

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Stretchy, Biocompatible Optical Fibers From MIT & Harvard

Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber made from hydrogel — an elastic, rubbery…

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