Researchers of the Alcoi campus of Valencia's Polytechnic University (UPV) have developed new devices that store electric charge in textile materials, which could be used to, for example, charge our mobile phone. They are ...
Polymers
Oct 8, 2019
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of sensor that uses atoms to receive commonly used communications signals. This atom-based receiver has the potential to ...
General Physics
Sep 5, 2019
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Hope has been restored for the rechargeable lithium metal battery—a potential battery powerhouse relegated for decades to the laboratory by its short life expectancy and occasional fiery demise while its rechargeable sibling, ...
Materials Science
Aug 26, 2019
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608
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with their colleagues at the University of Hamburg in Germany, have imaged an exotic quantum particle—called a Majorana fermion—that can be used as ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 29, 2019
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In standard communication the pigeon always carries the message; the information is linked to a physical entity/particle. Counter to intuition, in a new counterfactual communication protocol published in NPJ Quantum Information, ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 23, 2019
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New research from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management could upend the approach to sales forecasting for industries from cell phones to cars.
Economics & Business
Jul 8, 2019
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Answering the phone nowadays can be like playing Russian roulette—eventually, you're going to answer a robocall, and that's a game nobody wants to play.
Telecom
Jul 8, 2019
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Selfies, which have become a global sensation in the last decade or so, have remarkably killed five times more people than shark attacks.
Other
Jun 27, 2019
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Amazon employees start their shifts passing through turnstiles and a sign reminding them what they can't bring with them as they report for work alongside robots.
Business
Jun 19, 2019
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Electric cars struggle with extreme temperatures, mainly because of impacts on the electrolyte solutions in their lithium-ion batteries. Now, researchers have developed new electrolytes containing multiple additives that ...
Materials Science
Jun 19, 2019
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