Month: March 2024

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk News) From creating images, generating text, and enabling self-driving cars, the potential uses of artificial intelligence (AI) are vast and transformative. However, all this capability comes at a very high energy cost. For instance, estimates indicate that training OpenAI's popular GPT-3 model consumed over 1,287 MWh,...

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In the quest to develop quantum computers and networks, there are many components that are fundamentally different than those used today. Like a modern computer, each of these components has different constraints. However, it is currently unclear what materials can be used to construct those...

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk News) When you are trying to solve one of the biggest conundrums in cosmology, you should triple check your homework. The puzzle, called the "Hubble Tension," is that the current rate of the expansion of the universe is faster than what astronomers expect it to be,...

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Holography, the technique of using light to reconstruct three-dimensional images, has long captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike. By recording and later recreating the complete waveform of light reflected off an object, holograms can display images that shift and change perspective based...

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Expanding our scientific understanding often comes down to getting as close a look as possible at what is happening. Now researchers from Japan have observed the nanoscale behavior of azo-polymer films while triggering them with laser light. In a study published in Nano Letters ("In-situ...

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Electronic states that resemble molecules and are promising for use in future quantum computers have been created in superconducting circuits by physicists at RIKEN (Nature Communications, "Phase-dependent Andreev molecules and superconducting gap closing in coherently-coupled Josephson junctions"). The most obvious advantage of superconductors – materials...

Mar 11, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Peptides are short strands of amino acids that are increasingly used therapeutically, as biomaterials and as chemical and biological probes. The capacity to isolate, manipulate and label peptides and larger proteins is limited, however, by the ability to reliably attach functional molecules, such as fluorescent...

Mar 08, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ability to precisely position microscopic particles into useful three-dimensional configurations has been a long-standing goal in fields ranging from materials science and photonics to biological sensing and drug delivery. Colloidal particles, which are small particles suspended in a medium, can serve as building blocks...

Home > Press > What heat can tell us about battery chemistry: using the Peltier effect to study lithium-ion cells The researchers studied how electric current created heat flows in a lithium-ion battery cell. The heat flowed opposite to electric current, resulting in a higher temperature on the side where...

Home > Press > Researchers’ approach may protect quantum computers from attacks Dr. Kanad Basu (left) and his colleagues developed a way to counteract the impact of attacks designed to disrupt artificial intelligence’s ability to make decisions or solve tasks in quantum computers. His team includes computer engineering doctoral students...