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Simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve
Illustration of nanopillars used in a new design to efficiently convert heat energy into electricity.
A new method to convert heat to electricity could be economically viable for industry
A new laser-based breathalyzer can sniff out Covid and other diseases in real time
Unconventional z-spin polarization in MnPd3 material. Credit: The Wang Group
A new material could allow AI training to happen on individual devices instead of remote servers
Could a breakthrough in the spintronics manufacturing process bring about an electronics revolution?
Exhaust from coal-fired power plants, at left, contains large quantities of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (purple tripartite molecules). Aluminum formate, a metal-organic framework whose structure is highlighted at right, can selectively capture carbon dioxide from dried flue gas conditions, potentially at a fraction of the cost of using other carbon filtration materials. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST
A new simple very low cost material to scrub CO2 for powerplant smokestacks
Hydrogenation forms a mixture of lithium amide and hydride (light blue) as an outer shell around a lithium nitride particle (dark blue) nanoconfined in carbon. Nanoconfinement suppresses all other intermediate phases to prevent interface formation, which has the effect of dramatically improving the hydrogen storage performance.
Growing nano-sized hydrogen storage crystals in a nanoreactor
Could real-time, noninvasive analysis of human breath to detect and monitor diseases be getting MUCH closer?
The way to pack a million qubits into a quantum computer rather than just a few thousand
A miniaturized laser cooling system brings atoms to a standstill
A new room-temperature method could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust
Getting artificial intelligence to explain itself
Connecting quantum processors at a distance just got real with a new experiment
Sidesteping one of the primary obstacles standing in the way of effective quantum logic circuits
A significant advance in the development of artificial catalysts