Physicists demonstrate new method to make single photons
Credit: Leiden Institute of Physics Scientists need individual photons for quantum cryptography and quantum computers. But if you use single photons, you gain access to a hidden lev...
Newest supercomputer to help develop fusion energy in international device
Scientists led by Stephen Jardin, principal research physicist and head of the Computational Plasma Physics Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics La...
Mars Express detects liquid water hidden under planet’s south pole
Science & Exploration Mars Express detects liquid water hidden under planet’s south pole 25/07/2018 98068 views 467 likes Radar data collected by ESA’s Mars Express point to a p...
Machine Learning: Benefits to Business
Now, this method is definitely helping the business of email providers and such predictive (as well as prescriptive) algorithms can help all kinds of businesses. But first, let’s def...
Louis Taillefer wins Kamerlingh Onnes prize for superconductivity research
Canadian physicist Louis Taillefer, Director of CIFAR’s Quantum Materials program, will be awarded the 2018 Kamerlingh Onnes prize. Superconductivity is a phenomenon where materials ...
Leading artificial intelligence companies partner on a quest to solve Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Thursday, July 19, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine a leader in artificial intelligence for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research, announced a research coll...
How to weigh stars with gravitational lensing
This distortion of the light by the foreground star is called gravitational lensing: the light of the background star is deviated or focused into a smaller angle, and the star appear...
Generation of random numbers by measuring phase fluctuations from a laser diode with a silicon-on-in
In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Express, the researchers report a quantum random number generator based on randomly emitted photons from a diode laser. Silicon photonics ...
First successful test of Einstein’s general relativity near supermassive black hole (Update)
Kornmesser Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity on the motion of a star passing ...
Doctors rely on more than just data for medical decision making
“They’re tapping into something that the machine may not be seeing.” A new study from MIT computer scientists suggests that human doctors provide a dimension that, as yet, artificia...
China Is Investing In Its Own Hyperloop To Clear Its Crowded Highways
The race to open China’s first hyperloop track is on. The latest move to address this urban traffic nightmare: Chinese state-backed companies are making heavy investments in U.S. hyp...
Cell-sized robots can sense their environment
MIT postdoc Volodymyr Koman is the paper’s lead author. Researchers produced tiny electronic circuits, just 100 micrometers across,on a substrate material which was then dissolved aw...
A DevSecOps Reference Guide 101
DevSecOps is enabling integration of security testing earlier in the software development lifecycle — learn the terms you need to know to understand DevSecOps. Join the DZone communi...
3Q: Richard Milner on a new U.S. particle accelerator
What has it taken to make the case for this new particle accelerator? Significant initial impetus for the EIC came from nuclear physicists at the university user-facilities at the Un...
The evolution of package managers
How was software on Linux installed before package managers? What is a package? What is a software repository? Software repositories are a centralized listing of all of the available...
Textricator: Data extraction made simple
Data, interrupted. We do this by producing a series of up to 32 performance measures covering the entire criminal justice system, county by county. Textricator can process just about...
Student project leads to founding of startup DIANA Biotechnologies
A new startup, DIANA Biotechnologies, has been founded at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) to develop a unique techn...
Scientists develop proteins that self-assemble into supramolecular complexes
The researchers created and developed the proteins with a specific function and their method reveals a possibility that certain protein functions can be created on demand. Arai and h...
Plenty of habitat for bears in Europe
Map of Europe shows areas currently inhabited by brown bears (blue), areas that are suitable habitat for bears according to the new study, but which are currently not populated (gree...
Google and The UN Team Up To Study The Effects of Climate Change
The United Nations’ environmental agency has landed itself a powerful partner in the fight against climate change: Google. The tech company has agreed to partner with UN Environment ...
EU top court rules new breeding techniques count as GMOs
The European Union’s top court ruled Wednesday that food produced by a series of new biotechnology breeding techniques should be considered genetically modified organisms, thus falli...
Breakthrough in industrial CO2 usage
Professor Arne Skerra of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded for the first time in using gaseous CO2 as a basic material for the production of a chemical mass prod...
A 3D model of a human heart ventricle
Harvard University researchers have bioengineered a three-dimensional model of a human left heart ventricle that could be used to study diseases, test drugs and develop patient-speci...
Splitting water: Nanoscale imaging yields key insights
In the quest to realize artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel - just as plants do - researchers need to not only identify materials to ef...
One of the World’s Largest Oil Companies is Spending $1 Billion a Year on Green Energy Research
We bring the science, the commitment to research.” Oil is Out The company will cast a wide net when it comes to emerging technologies. Exxon Mobil will continue to investigate uses...