ORNL scientists developed RidgeAlloy, a new aluminum alloy that transforms impure auto-body scrap into strong structural materials. Credit: Shutterstock A new alloy could turn tomorrow’s vehicle scrap into America’s next manufacturing advantage. A large influx…
Gold “super atoms” could unlock scalable, customizable quantum computing. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers found that gold “super atoms” can behave like the atoms in top-tier quantum systems—only far easier to scale. These tiny clusters…
New research from Johns Hopkins University shows that certain biologically inspired AI architectures can mimic human brain activity even before training on data, challenging long-held assumptions about how AI must learn. Credit: Stock Choosing the…
Thanks to computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication technologies, the method may also be applied to design-laminated timber gridshells. Credit: ©2025 Masaaki Miki and Toby Mitchell CC-BY-ND A new NURBS-based algorithm is revolutionizing gridshell design by…
While humans and classical computers must perform tensor operations step by step, light can do them all at once. Credit: Photonics group / Aalto University Researchers have demonstrated single-shot tensor computing at the speed of…
Illustration of a 60-fold gyromorph’s properties. Top row: Structure of the gyromorph. Left: Structure factor. Right: Pair correlation function. Bottom row: Optical properties. Left: Polarized light beam fully reflected by a gyromorph. Right: Density of…
Researchers at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, working with NVIDIA, have pushed classical computing to a new frontier by fully simulating a universal 50-qubit quantum computer on Europe’s first exascale system, JUPITER. Credit: Shutterstock The JUPITER…
Artistic sketch of the fastest charge carrier ever on a silicon wafer (cs-GoS). Credit: Maksym Myronov / University of Warwick Researchers are investigating hole mobility in compressively strained germanium on silicon to improve the performance…
In this imaginative artwork, a lanthanide-doped nanoparticle takes the form of a spider and the web spun by the spider is made of 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid, an organic antenna designed to trap charge carriers and efficiently…
A new fuel-blending method appears to make diesel engines cleaner and more efficient at the same time. Early results point to surprising emission cuts and promising real-world potential. Credit: Shutterstock A new review shows that…
