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3D-Printed Vaccine Patch Offers Vaccination Without a Shot
Scientists have engineered a three-dimensionally-printed vaccine patch that offers more protection than a typical shot in the arm.
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Robots Scurry Through Underground Scavenger Hunt to Advance Technology
Eight teams directed robots through an underground scavenger hunt in the final segment of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge...
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It's Time to Establish a Quantum Computing Strategy, Study Suggests
There's a critical mass of tech leaders interested in quantum computing, and current challenges to its widespread implementation are surmountable, says Classiq....
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Scaffolding Robot Buttresses Tipping Construction Industry
Like few other sectors, construction is being inundated with robots and technology.
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Winged Microchip Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure
Flying microchips developed by engineers at Northwestern University could be used to monitor air pollution and airborne disease.
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Physicists, Colleagues Offer Way to Control Qubits
A research team has developed new techniques for controlling qubits, which could help improve the accuracy of quantum computers.
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EU Announces Plans to Require All Mobile Devices to Use USB-C
Devices using only wireless charging would be exempt from the mandate.
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Quantum Supremacy Achieved by More Complex Quantum Computer
A quantum computer completed a calculation in 4.2 hours that would have taken a classical system thousands of years.
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Robot-Prepped Pizza at 800 Degrees
Autonomous pizza machine developer 800 Degrees Pizza has partnered with an international pizza brand to offer a fully automated pizza-making experience.
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Unique Amplifier Could Change Optical Communication
A new amplifier promises to revolutionize space and fiber communications.
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Quantum Computer Helps Design Better Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai used a quantum computer to design a quantum bit that could power better quantum systems...
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Now We're Cooking with Lasers
Experiments by Columbia University researchers have considered different cooking modalities by exposing chicken to blue and infrared light, then 3D-printing a sample...
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Flatter Chips
Two-dimensional materials — graphene and its cousins — could enable better integrated circuits.
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A Switch in Time
The introduction of the nanosheet transistor is just one step in the continuing attempt to stick to the spirit of Moore's Law.
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Tesla Drivers Become 'Inattentive' When Using Autopilot, Study Finds
Drivers glanced less at the road and more on "non-driving related areas."
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Unlimited Digital Sensing Unleashed for Imaging, Audio, Driverless Cars
A new method could support unlimited digital sensing.
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Counterfeit, Substandard Chips are Penetrating the Supply Chain, Industry Insiders Warn
Many electronic manufacturers are turning to risky supply channels to meet demand.
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City-Wide Quantum Data Network in China Is Largest Ever Built
China has been running a city-wide quantum communications network in Hefei, the largest quantum network demonstration built to date, for almost three years.
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NASA Sends Robots to Study Climate Change in the Arctic
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration dispatched two robots to the Arctic in early July to collect sea surface temperature data.
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