Thanks to IBM scientists, replacing copper wires with light to transfer data at improved speeds and with optimal energy efficiency is within reach.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 3, 2017
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The weather here on Earth has been a little strange this winter – 60-degree days, followed by blinding snow, only to be followed by 50s and rain – but for Steven Powell, the weather he's interested in can't be felt by ...
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2017
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Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have made the world's smallest radio receiver - built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds.
General Physics
Dec 16, 2016
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What do you look for in a partner? Surely that depends on what the partner is for – you'd probably want a business partner to be innovative, a choir buddy to be musical and a romantic partner to be attractive and funny. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2016
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The cost of deploying fast fibre connections straight to homes could be dramatically reduced by new hardware designed and tested by UCL researchers. The innovative technology will help address the challenges of providing ...
Telecom
Feb 14, 2016
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When it comes to route planning, drivers have almost blind faith in GPS; the technology plays a crucial role in identifying location and time in the industry as well as in other areas. If hackers attack the system, they can ...
Security
Jan 25, 2016
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The GPS network might just be Earth's greatest piece of infrastructure. It's effectively a collection of clocks in space that serve up time information 24/7 free of charge to anyone on the planet who cares to listen.
Engineering
Aug 4, 2015
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It's not much harder or more expensive to send a tweet or a Facebook post to hundreds or even thousands of people than to just a handful. So you'd think that the ease of communicating with lots of people via social networks ...
Internet
Mar 10, 2015
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The Earth's crust under Iceland is rebounding as global warming melts the island's great ice caps, a University of Arizona-led team reports in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2015
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Climate scientists are gleaning valuable information about snowfall and droughts from errant satellite signals once considered a nuisance.
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2015
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