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Laser-Comb Clocks Pierce Femtosecond Barrier
By firing a laser from a volcano in Hawaii, scientists now reveal they can synchronize atomic clocks to 320 billionths of a billionth of a second (0.32 femtoseconds or 320 attoseconds) over a distance...
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Peculiar Pangolin Bot Is a Pill-Size Prototype
A tiny robot version of the scaly mammal known as the pangolin may one day perform medical procedures inside the body, a new study finds. Scientists are increasingly exploring how miniature robots...
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Prototype Sensors Sniff Out Seizures Before They Occur
Wearable sensors may one day detect impending seizures and give a warning roughly 20 minutes before an attack happens. Researchers at Know Biological in Milton, Georgia, and Sandia National...
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This Drone Can Fly, Float, and Roll to Get Around
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Instead of one autonomous robot to fly, another to drive on land and one more to navigate on water, a...
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Perovskite-Silicon Pairing Sails Past 30 Percent
Silicon solar cells are approaching their theoretical efficiency limit of 29.4 percent. But last year scientists revealed they created tandem solar cells that for the first time exceeded the 30...
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Flexible Implant Treats Heart Disease, Then Dissolves
A soft implant about the size of a postage stamp may one day both monitor and help treat heart disease and then harmlessly dissolve away when no longer needed, a new study finds.With roughly 655,000...
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Microscopic Cracks in Metal Can Spontaneously Heal
Microscopic cracks in metals can heal themselves, suggesting that self-repairing machines could one day reverse damage they suffer, a new study reveals.When metal parts in machines are repeatedly...
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The Solar Cell Discovery Machine
With the aid of crystals known as perovskites, solar cells are increasingly breaking records in how well they convert sunlight to electricity. Now a new automated system could make those records fall...
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Wi-Fi Boosts New, Ultrafast Li-Fi Standards
Just as Wi-Fi uses radio signals to encode information, Li-Fi relies on light for incredibly fast data rates. Now a new IEEE standard for Li-Fi based off the IEEE standard for Wi-Fi (802.11) may help...
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Hailsondes Launch Into Thunderstorms to Sound Them Out
Inspired by the blockbuster 1996 film Twister, a new sensor shaped like a hailstone can hurtle around within the eye of a thunderstorm to shed light on the mysteries behind the growth of hail.Major...
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IBM’S AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI
An artificial intelligence chip from IBM is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips at speech recognition. Many controversial AI systems, including ChatGPT and other...
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Watch Out, That Hill Might Collapse!
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Neural networks designed to analyze medical images may help predict where landslides are most likely to...
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Electric Cooling Could Shrink Quantum Computers
Quantum computers hold the promise of tackling problems that no traditional computer is capable of solving. However, a key limitation they face is that most types require bulky, energy-hungry...
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How Tiny Schrödinger’s Cats Could Upend Quantum Again
The building blocks of quantum computers are often thought to imitate the famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat, in which quantum physics essentially suspends a cat in a box in a...
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ChatGPT May Be a Better Improviser Than You
Are you more imaginative than AI chatbots such as ChatGPT? The average person may not be, at least when it comes to one specific creative task, a new study finds.Creativity has been thought of as a...
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Programmable DNA Machines Offer General-Purpose Computing
What may be the first programmable DNA computer is capable of running billions of different circuits, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The Chinese scientists who created the...
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DARPA Hopes to Beam Power Across 200 Kilometers
Instead of using wires to deliver power, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense, wants to wirelessly beam power over hundreds of kilometers. In...
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Impossible Photo Feat Now Possible Via Holography
Smartphones and movie cameras might one day do what regular cameras now cannot—change the sharpness of any given object once it has been captured, without sacrificing picture quality. Scientists...
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Entangled Atoms Lead to Ultraprecise Quantum Sensors
The strange quantum phenomenon known as entanglement can link atoms and other particles together so that they can influence one another instantaneously, regardless of distance. New research suggests...
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Crushing Plutonium for Nuclear Safety
Deep below the Nevada desert, a machine dubbed Scorpius is under construction that will use high explosives to crush plutonium to states that exist just prior to a nuclear explosion. The aim of the US...
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