How to Protect Your Phone While Traveling Abroad
When I travel to Asia this summer, I plan to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I’ll pack a different phone lacking my staple apps, like Instagram, Slack and Signal. It won’t even be logged…
Scientists Unlock New Flexible Semiconductor Using Atomic “Vacancy Engineering”
QUT researchers employed vacancy engineering to precisely control atomic spaces in an AgCu(Te, Se, S) alloy, creating a flexible semiconductor that efficiently converts body heat into electricity while retaining excellent mechanical properties. They demonstrated its…
From Trash to Tech: Scientists Turn Pomelo Peels Into Electricity-Generating Devices
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a method to upcycle the spongy, porous peel of pomelos, typically discarded as waste, into devices that generate electricity and act as biomechanical motion sensors. These eco-friendly…
Revolutionizing OLEDs: New Spectroscopy Technique Extends Device Lifespan
To increase the device lifetimes and efficiency of OLEDs, it is critical to understand the electrical charge behavior at different interfaces within. Professor Takayuki Miyamae and his team from Chiba University used the electronic sum-frequency…
One Material, Four Behaviors: Superconductor, Metal, Semiconductor, and Insulator
Scientists have developed a method to turn molybdenum disulfide into a range of electronic states, including a superconductor, just by adding potassium ions and tweaking temperature. Credit: SciTechDaily.com RIKEN scientists have discovered how to manipulate…
The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist
In the balmy late afternoon of Aug. 25, 2024, Sushil and Radhika Chetal were house-hunting in Danbury, Conn., in an upscale neighborhood of manicured yards and heated pools. Sushil, a vice president at Morgan Stanley…
Experts Sound the Alarm: Your DNA Could Be Hacked
Next-generation DNA sequencing is at risk of cyberattacks. A new study urges action to secure genomic data and prevent misuse, highlighting emerging threats and calling for interdisciplinary collaboration and stronger cyber-biosecurity measures. Credit: SciTechDaily.com The…
Time-Saving New iPhone and Android Features You Might Have Missed
Apple and Google regularly roll out new versions of their smartphone software with fresh and useful features. But between the annual overhauls and the smaller periodic revisions, it can be hard to keep track of…
How 1,432 GPUs Cracked Google’s 53-Qubit Quantum Computer
A view of the Google dilution refrigerator, which houses the Sycamore chip. Credit: Google Quantum AI Researchers have achieved a major leap in <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip=" quantum computing Performing computation using quantum-mechanical phenomena such…
Lasers in a Loop: How a Micro Ring Just Shattered Quantum Limits
A 60-mode entangled state has been created on a chip, breaking records and unlocking scalable quantum light generation. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers in China have achieved a major leap in quantum photonics by generating a massive…