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Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining significant market share in the industry. Sales of EVs are increasing in response to rising fuel costs and the need for green transportation. The main advantage of electric mobility is that it greatly…

Instead of tossing out devices when there's a new model, we could upgrade them with the latest sensors and processors that snap onto a device's internal chip — like LEGO bricks. Such reconfigurable chips could keep devices up to date and…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected SRI International to create a first-ever quantum technology manufacturing roadmap (QTMR). A $300,000 grant from NIST will fund the effort. The roadmap will identify…

The Gaia space mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) is mapping our galaxy, providing unprecedented, detailed data that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of the solar system and beyond. Gaia, launched on December 19th, 2013,…

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE®) has opened nominations for eight different industry honors. The society will present these honors at the SCTE® Cable-Tec Expo® in Philadelphia, PA, this fall. The deadline for…

An F-104 Starfighter (hopefully named after the 1984 movie, the Last Starfighter or the Star Wars spacecraft) kicked off the grand opening of Gateway™: The Deep Space Launch Complex at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on the 15th.…

We use electro-optic modulators for everything from sensing to metrology and telecommunications. Research tends to focus on applications that take place on chips or within fiber optic systems. But what about optical applications outside the…

Ultralight particle clouds can form around rotating black holes. Physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University now show that these clouds would leave a characteristic imprint on the gravitational waves emitted by binary…

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, dramatically improved the coherence time of a previously developed quantum membrane. The membrane can store sensitive quantum information for further processing in a quantum…

Tampering with hardware used to read out information is a huge security risk. Researchers in Bochum developed a method to detect such manipulations—monitoring the systems with radio waves that react to the slightest changes in the ambient…