Why the semiconductor chip shortage could be a good thing
A shortage of the semiconductor chips that serve as the brainpower in millions of electronic devices has stalled the production of everything from cars...
Scientists catalogue 27 million galaxy morphologies with machine learning
Research from Penn’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has produced the largest catalog of galaxy morphology classification to date.
Led by former postdocs Jesús Vega-Ferrero...
This snakebot takes a dive to go where other robots can’t
A snake-like robot can now slither its way through water, allowing it to inspect ships, submarines, and underwater infrastructure for damage.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon...
New digital fingerprints are almost impossible to hack
Researchers have found a way to use chaos to help develop digital fingerprints for electronic devices that may be unique enough to foil even...
New software tool is Swiss Army knife for genomic data
A good way to find out what a cell is doing—whether it is growing out of control as in cancers, or is under the...
What is an NFT? Non-fungible tokens explained
Have you seen the word "NFT" spinning around the internet lately, and found yourself completely confused as to what everyone's talking about?
We're here to...
Gravitational lenses could allow a galaxy-wide Internet
As Carl Sagan once said, “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
And...
Optical fiber could boost power of superconducting quantum computers
The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications technology — optical fiber.
Physicists at the National Institute...
Scientists find new way to package power into smaller microchips
From slimmer laptops to smaller smartphones, all of our most-used devices rely on increasingly smaller microchips.
But, in recent years, researchers have seemingly hit the...
New chip could deliver COVID-19 test results on smartphone in 55 minutes
COVID-19 can be diagnosed in 55 minutes or less with the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads and a diagnostic tool that plugs into an...