A new discovery by physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) could make certain components in computers and smartphones obsolete. The team has succeeded in directly converting frequencies to higher ranges ...
General Physics
Mar 10, 2022
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Facial recognition, body cameras and other digital technologies are increasingly used by police departments, municipalities and even gated communities, but these tools manufactured by private companies raise the specter of ...
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2021
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Newcastle University research offers important insights into how we could turn DNA into a green-by-design data structure that organises data like conventional computers.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 13, 2021
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The rapid increase in energy consumption related to digital technologies is a major global challenge. One key problem is the reduction of the energy consumption of magnetic data storage devices, which are used, for example, ...
Nanophysics
Jul 30, 2021
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The widespread proliferation of the internet and information and communication technologies (ICT) has drawn people into urban centers, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Apr 15, 2021
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The digital age holds promise for the world's half-billion smallholder farmers. Smartphones with the right apps can tell farmers when it's likely going to rain, how to identify and eradicate pests, and negotiate the prices ...
Environment
Nov 2, 2020
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Much of the 'memory' of the world and all our digital activities are based on media, hard disks, where the information is encoded thanks to magnetism, by orienting the spin of electrons in one direction or the other.
General Physics
Sep 29, 2020
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The environmental impact of deep-sea mining is only partially known. Also, there is a lack of standards to regulate mining and set binding thresholds for the impact on the local organisms. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2020
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New research led by the University of Bristol has found that over half of people would be willing to donate their personal data for research to benefit the wider general public.
Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2019
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Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers the same superior security quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 31, 2019
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