/ en-us 麻豆淫院 internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: 麻豆淫院ics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Researchers have created a chip-based device that can split phonons鈥攖iny packets of mechanical vibration that can carry information in quantum systems. By filling a key gap, this device could help connect various quantum devices via phonons, paving the way for advanced computing and secure quantum communication. /news/2025-10-chip-based-phonon-splitter-hybrid.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:00:05 EDT news678963061 A team of scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed molecular qubits that bridge the gap between light and magnetism鈥攁nd operate at the same frequencies as telecommunications technology. The advance, published today in Science, establishes a promising new building block for scalable quantum technologies that can integrate seamlessly with existing fiber-optic networks. /news/2025-10-molecular-qubits-communicate-telecom-frequencies.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:02:04 EDT news678643321 The future of computing lies in the surprising world of quantum physics, where the rules are much different from the ones that power today's devices. Quantum computers promise to tackle problems too complex for even the fastest supercomputers running on silicon chips. To make this vision real, scientists around the world are searching for new quantum materials with unusual, almost otherworldly properties. /news/2025-10-extreme-pressure-honeycomb-crystal-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:33:04 EDT news678533581 Programmable photonics devices, which use light to perform complex computations, are emerging as a key area in integrated photonics research. Unlike conventional electronics that transmit signals with electrons, these systems use photons, offering faster processing speeds, higher bandwidths, and greater energy efficiency. These advantages make programmable photonics well-suited for demanding tasks like real-time deep learning and data-intensive computing. /news/2025-09-photodiode-germanium-key-chip.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:17:04 EDT news678464222 Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of Illinois and technology companies pouring millions of dollars into developing a campus to build the world's first commercially viable quantum computer on the city's Southeast Side. /news/2025-09-real-physical-quantum-ohare-technology.html Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:00:14 EDT news678369022 One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe. /news/2025-09-physicists-quantum-bit-capable.html Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:50:01 EDT news678095146 They linger in our water, our blood, and the environment鈥�"forever chemicals" that are notoriously difficult to detect. /news/2025-09-tiny-sensors-rapidly-chemicals.html Environment Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:50:05 EDT news678023401 Scientists at the Department of Applied 麻豆淫院ics II of the University of Malaga have participated in the design of a new technology that controls fluids and particles in three dimensions through virtual thermal barriers generated using light. /news/2025-09-driven-thermal-barriers-fluid-dimensions.html Optics & Photonics Soft Matter Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:57:03 EDT news678020221 Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum properties, scientists can discover new states of matter, sense even the faintest of signals, take ultra-precise measurements of time and gravity, and conduct quantum sensing and computing experiments. /news/2025-09-chip-scale-cold-atom-unleash.html Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:27:05 EDT news678011221 Is life possible鈥攐r has it ever been possible鈥攐n other planets? The (Origin of) Life Marker Chip (LMCOOL) seeks the answer. This innovative chip is being developed by a Dutch consortium led by TU Delft. UT researcher Jurriaan Huskens and his team are going to make the optical sensor selective for the required biomarkers. /news/2025-09-small-chip-grand-mission-extraterrestrial.html Astrobiology Planetary Sciences Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:50:04 EDT news677843210 A team of scientists at Simon Fraser University's Quantum Technology Lab and leading Canada-based quantum company Photonic Inc. have created a new type of silicon-based quantum device controlled both optically and electrically, marking the latest breakthrough in the global quantum computing race. /news/2025-09-physicists-electrically-silicon-based-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:51:04 EDT news677418661 While many plans for quantum computers transmit data using the particles of light known as photons, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) are turning to sound. /news/2025-09-tomorrow-quantum.html Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:28:04 EDT news677417282 Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears on a micrometer scale. This paves the way for the smallest on-chip motors in history, which can fit inside a strand of hair. The research is published in the journal Nature Communications. /news/2025-09-powered-gears-strand-hair.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:47:03 EDT news677407621 Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat objects in a single snapshot. This innovation could speed up research and medical diagnostics or be useful in quality inspection applications. /news/2025-09-microscope-captures-large-high-resolution.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:00:05 EDT news677236322 Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance, quality control of manufacturing semiconductor electronic chips. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky, energy-hungry tabletop devices. /news/2025-09-spectrum-microchip.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:00:01 EDT news676799941 Many advances in medicine and drug development were possible owing to flow cytometry, a single-cell analysis technique that analyzes cells using the emitted fluorescence of their chemical tags while passing through a laser beam. Most flow cytometers possess a microfluidic channel, a small channel that regulates the flow of fluorescently tagged analytes. Flow cytometry enables quick single-cell counting and analysis, making it a cornerstone of modern biomedical research. /news/2025-09-adjustable-microchannel-height-boosts-sensitivity.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:53:54 EDT news676810428 Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster and affordable microchips used across modern electronics鈥攊n everything from cellphones to cars, appliances to airplanes. /news/2025-09-circuits-invisible-naked-eye-technique.html Nanomaterials Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:00:01 EDT news676783109 In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand鈥攆inely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed into a soccer ball. Despite this cramped space, stem cells manage to find and activate the correct genes in a matter of minutes. Which genes these are differs from cell to cell. Precise activation is crucial as errors in gene selection can lead to disease or cell death. /news/2025-09-molecular-biomimetics-cell-nucleus-dna.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:05:03 EDT news676641901 Relaying a message from point A to B can be as simple as flashing a thumbs-up at a stranger in an intersection, signaling them to proceed鈥攏onverbal, clear, and universally understood. But light-based communication is rarely that straightforward. /news/2025-09-tiny-crystal-undeterred.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:52:04 EDT news676637522 In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers today's web. /news/2025-08-quantum-standard-internet-protocol.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:00:01 EDT news675508613 Hydrogels are soft, water-rich polymeric materials that can swell or shrink in response to environmental stimuli. This ability to change shape makes them valuable in miniaturized devices for flexible electronics, microrobotics, intelligent surfaces, and biomedical applications such as drug delivery. For example, hydrogel pores can be engineered to trap and release tiny drug particles on demand. /news/2025-08-origami-strategy-hydrogel-pores-enables.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:00:01 EDT news675517920 Liquids can provide some especially tricky challenges for space travelers, but new research from the University of Mississippi could help engineer smarter, more efficient fluid control in zero- and low-gravity environments. /news/2025-08-tiny-big-impact-fluid-space.html Soft Matter Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:40:01 EDT news675351028 Researchers have developed a technique to fold glass sheets into microscopic 3D photonic structures directly on a chip鈥攁 process they call photonic origami. The method could enable tiny, yet complex optical devices for data processing, sensing and experimental physics. /news/2025-08-photonic-origami-glass-microscopic-3d.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:00:02 EDT news674908381 Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely miniaturized nanodroplets with a volume of only 200 nanoliters per droplet鈥攃omparable to a grain of sand鈥攁nd containing only 300 cells per test can be arranged. /news/2025-08-nanodroplets-medicine-1.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:31:11 EDT news674983864 Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely miniaturized nanodroplets with a volume of only 200 nanoliters per droplet鈥攃omparable to a grain of sand鈥攁nd containing only 300 cells per test can be arranged. /news/2025-08-nanodroplets-medicine.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:31:07 EDT news674983861 It's hard to believe that there is anything positive that could come out of wildfires. They have devastated homes, taken lives, erased memories, leveled cities and destroyed our forests and wildlands. But a University of Delaware professor has found that there is something of value to be learned from what's left behind in the remnants. /news/2025-08-qa-wildfire-char-atmospheric-methane.html Earth Sciences Environment Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:09:45 EDT news674831378 For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, incredibly expensive metal used in the production of clean hydrogen fuels. /news/2025-08-hydrogen-iridium-problem-afternoon-megalibrary.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:29:22 EDT news674828952 With demand for critical minerals on the rise, mining activity in Northern Canada is only going to increase. That will require new solutions for treating water that becomes contaminated from mining鈥攅ither from the chemicals used to extract minerals or elements that occur naturally underground. /news/2025-08-natural-filter-material-contaminated-colder.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:43:04 EDT news674314981 For months, Sabrina Staples stared at a silicone chip no bigger than a postage stamp, trying to coax cells into doing something remarkable. But every time she loaded her delicate microfluidic device with cells, a single rogue bubble would sneak in, destroying the cells and the experiment. /news/2025-08-microfluidic-device-captures-blood-vessel.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:29:04 EDT news674213342 Critical mineral lithium鈥攖he lightest of all metals鈥攈ad long eluded geologists by slipping through the cracks of traditional analysis. /news/2025-08-laser-analysis-enables-industry-mineral.html Earth Sciences Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:59:04 EDT news673775941