Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have pioneered a new catalytic transformation that converts epoxides into fluorinated oxetanes, a coveted but difficult-to-make class of drug molecules that escaped synthetic preparation…
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Perovskite solar cells: Thermal stresses are the key to long-term stability
Perovskite solar cells are highly efficient and low cost in production. However, they still lack stability over the decades under real weather conditions. An international research collaboration led by Prof. Antonio Abate has now published a…
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Robot Videos: Figure Helix, Swimming Robots, MIT Media Lab
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Climate Change Can Increase Valley Fever Rates
Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on recent increases in cases of coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever. The first study was
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Why some chaos-seekers just want to watch the world burn
Since President Donald Trump took office a few weeks ago, the administration’s frenetic activity, which has included withdrawing from global agreements and slashing slashing federal jobs and funding, has left many people reeling….
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How Algae Can Accelerate Greenland Glacier Melt
Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of the growth of algae, which can survive on the surface of the ice. These dark patches also…
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Robotics and AI Institute Triples Speed of Boston Dynamics Spot
About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this…
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Demonstrating a Quantum Edge in a Coloring Game
• Physics 18, s27
A two-player team that shares a pair of entangled particles can outplay a team that uses only classical strategies.
In principle, a modest quantum computer can perform in minutes a computational task…
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Holey Material Enhances Electron Flow
• Physics 18, 42
An array of holes in a 2D material enhances an effect that improves the flow of electric currents.
J. Estrada-Álvarez et al. [1]Swiss cheese conductor. Arrows indicate electron flow patterns… Continue Reading
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How Black Holes Help Stars Form
• Physics 18, 39
In the Phoenix galaxy cluster, the presence of a black hole allows gas to cool, collapse, and form stars at an extremely high rate, in contrast with other clusters where the black hole heats the gas and…
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