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Quantum Computers: Breakthrough Boosts Stability Tenfold

Australian engineers have created a new quantum bit which remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved, dramatically…

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Deep Cracking Faults: New Insights for Oil and Earthquake Prediction

The deep cracking faults that lie within the Earth’s crust are significant geologic surfaces for oil exploration and earthquake prediction. A team from KAUST…

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Dartmouth Team Unveils WristWhirl: Smartwatch Joystick Innovation

Checking email, tracking fitness, and listening to music, are just a few things that a smartwatch can do but what if your hands aren't free (i.e. carrying…

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Computer experts identify 14 themes of creativity

The elusive and complex components of creativity have been identified by computer experts at the University of Kent.

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PolyPhotonics project starts: Fraunhofer HHI and partners develop market-ready polymer chips

Eleven regional enterprises and three research institutes pool their expertise in PolyPhotonics Berlin. For the first time, the network partners will be able…

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New Method Controls Magnet Spin with Electric Fields in Trillionth

Although magnetism has been known from ancient times, a fundamental understanding of the origin of this physical phenomenon has been achieved only in the last…

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Empowering Users: The Future of Flexible Power Grids

The growing share of renewable energy sources leads to wider load fluctuations in power grids, necessitating new concepts and ways to avoid overload. What is…

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Optical Fiber Achieves One Terabit Per Second with New Modulation

The demonstration shows that the flexibility and performance of optical networks can be maximized when adjustable transmission rates are dynamically adapted to…

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MIT Team Develops Imaging System to Read Closed Books

MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.

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Tile-Based HEVC Video: Enhancing High-Quality VR Streaming

High-resolution in user Field of View (FoV) is required to foster a sense of immersion in VR video applications such as multiple times UHD resolution to cover…

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New Digital Antenna Paves Way for Mobile Innovation

Aalto University's Radio Science and Engineering researchers have developed a method that allows antennas to make the shift from the analogue to the digital…

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Building Secure Networks for Tomorrow’s Internet

Large data centres are the major checkpoints of the Internet. They save, process and forward business data and private information. Today's data centres have…

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New Microchip Enhances Efficiency for Data Centers

Princeton University researchers have built a new computer chip that promises to boost performance of data centers that lie at the core of online services from…

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Making Computer Programming Easier: A Glimpse Into the Future

Nobody said computer programming was easy. But maybe in the future, it could be.

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Wi-Fi from Lasers: KAUST’s Breakthrough in Light Technology

A nanocrystalline material that rapidly makes white light out of blue light has been developed by KAUST researchers.

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Liquid Metals: Paving the Way for Future Electronics

Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals — a critical step towards future elastic…

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