[ad_1] “At the age of 12-15 I was drawing; I was designing fusion devices. “ David Fischer recalls growing up in Vienna, Austria imagining the best way to cool the furnace used to hold the hot ion soup known as plasma in a melting device called a tokamak. With the …
Read More »Large area flexible organic photodiodes can compete with silicon devices
[ad_1] Georgia Tech lead research scientist Canek Fuentes-Hernandez possesses rigid and flexible large-area organic photodiodes whose performance is comparable to that of silicon-based photodiodes. (Credit: Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Georgia Tech) The performance of large-area flexible organic photodiodes has advanced to the point where they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon …
Read More »Using machine learning to track the impact of the pandemic on mental health
[ad_1] Dealing with a global pandemic has put a strain on the mental health of millions of people. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard University has shown that they can measure these effects by analyzing the language people use to express their anxiety online. Using machine learning to …
Read More »NTU scientists develop energy-saving “liquid window”
[ad_1] Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a liquid window panel that can simultaneously block the sun to regulate solar transmission, trapping thermal heat that can be released during the day and night, helping to reduce the energy consumption in buildings. NTU researchers developed their “smart …
Read More »Ignition of the ion trap | Mirage News
[ad_1] Enter a quantum lab where scientists trap ions and you’ll find worktops filled with mirrors and lenses, all lasers that focus to hit an ion “trapped” in place on top of a chip. Using lasers to control ions, scientists have learned to exploit ions as quantum bits, or qubits, …
Read More »Nice discovery: new studies confirm that the moon has icy poles
[ad_1] Water is more abundant on the Moon than we might have suspected, according to two papers published today in Nature Astronomy that confirm the presence of ice on and near the lunar surface. It’s a push for the prospect of extracting water from the Moon, which can help support …
Read More »Beaches can survive rising sea levels if they have room to move
[ad_1] An international team of coastal scientists has rejected suggestions that half the world’s beaches could go extinct over the course of the 21st century. The claim was made by European researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change in March 2020 (Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion by …
Read More »UCLA launches the first accredited Blockchain engineering course
[ad_2][ad_1] Blockchain courses are adopted by multiple institutions as a way to teach and equip the next generation of crypto-engineers to meet the ever-increasing demand for technology and its applications. Now, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is preparing to offer its first blockchain engineering course, thanks to a …
Read More »Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) – Bitcoin & Stock Journal
[ad_1] Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC): Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) stock moved down -11.44% in contrast to its 20 day moving average displaying short-term negative movement of stock. It shifted -17.23% below its 50-day simple moving average. This is showing medium-term bearish trend based on SMA 50. The stock …
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