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1 week ago | 
interestingengineering.com | Tejasri Gururaj
The jelly-like lithium battery being twisted and stabbedUC BerkleyLithium-ion batteries power the majority of today’s portable and battery-operated electronics. While extremely efficient, lithium-ion batteries have limitations that prevent their use in soft robotics and wearable electronics. They use a liquid electrolyte, most commonly organic solvents, which are toxic and dangerous when exposed to air.
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1 week ago | 
thehindu.com | Tejasri Gururaj
The invention of silicon chips revolutionised communications. Even today they are the cornerstone of the technologies we use to move information around the world. The way they work has changed significantly, however. They have become better: for a long time this was because experts improved its hardware to operate as efficiently as possible.
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1 week ago | 
interestingengineering.com | Tejasri Gururaj
Quantum computing is still in the early stages of development, but it has proven to be an extremely powerful tool for various applications. While most demonstrations of their efficiency are limited to theoretical work, researchers have now made strides to bridge the gap between theory and practical applications.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Tejasri Gururaj
In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological cells. They show that a universal feature in the collective behavior emerges in groups of living cells. The researchers studied four cellular systems to find evidence of universal conformal invariance.
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2 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Tejasri Gururaj
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new method to measure the Hubble constant that could help resolve one of modern cosmology's pressing puzzles: the Hubble tension.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Tejasri Gururaj
Since its inception in 2008, the LHC (large hadron collider) at CERN has been a key player in pushing the boundaries of particle physics research. Consisting of four main experiments, the circular particle accelerator is built to push the frontiers of particle physics. The CMS collaboration, one of the four key experiments at the LHC, has announced the possible discovery of the tiniest hadron ever seen.
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2 weeks ago | 
thehindu.com | Tejasri Gururaj
For a long time, researchers have been looking for the sort of task that a quantum computer will be better at doing than a classical computer. Because if a quantum computer shows that it can be superior, it will achieve a milestone called quantum supremacy. Researchers from the University of Oxford and Universidad de Sevilla recently demonstrated quantum supremacy using a simple game. Their finding, published in Physical Review Letters in February, borrowed a concept from the odd-cycle graph.
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2 weeks ago | 
interestingengineering.com | Tejasri Gururaj
Since its inception in 2008, the LHC (large hadron collider) at CERN has been a key player in pushing the boundaries of particle physics research. Consisting of four main experiments, the circular particle accelerator is built to push the frontiers of particle physics. The CMS collaboration, one of the four key experiments at the LHC, has announced the possible discovery of the tiniest hadron ever seen.
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2 weeks ago | 
interestingengineering.com | Tejasri Gururaj
The light reaching Earth has a variety of frequencies, some of which are visible to us and others that are not. Of these frequencies, shortwave infrared (SWIR) stands out for its unique properties that make it extremely useful for Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems. LIDAR is a system that calculates distances using laser pulses, similar to how SONAR uses sound waves.
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3 weeks ago | 
interestingengineering.com | Tejasri Gururaj
Artistic representation of the tunnel for the FCC-hh (proton-proton collider). PIXELRISE/CERNCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has been at the forefront of fundamental scientific research. In 2012, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found proof of the Higgs Boson, which played a key role in giving mass to the fundamental particles in the universe.
