The Roly-Poly Gold Rush
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – The woodlouse goes by many names: roly-poly, pill bug, potato bug, tomato bug, butchy boy, cheesy bob, and chiggy pig, to name […]
Improving Image Sensors for Machine Vision
Article: Multimodal light-sensing pixel arrays DOI: 10.1063/5.0090138 WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 – Image sensors measure light intensity, but angle, spectrum, and other aspects of light must also […]
Solar Cell Keeps Working Long After Sun Sets
Article: Nighttime electric power generation at a density of 50mW/m2 via radiative cooling of a photovoltaic cell DOI: 10.1063/5.0085205 WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022 – About 750 million […]
New Findings Proliferate Questions About Hypothetical Axionic Behavior in Weyl Semimetals
Link to article: Does (TaSe4)2I really harbor an axionic charge density wave? DOI: 10.1063/5.0080380 WASHINGTON, February 8, 2022 — The axion is a particle that physicists have […]
Teaching Robots to Think Like Us
Link to article: Physical reservoir computing with FORCE learning in a living neuronal culture DOI: 10.1063/5.0064771 WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26, 2021 — Can intelligence be taught to […]
Combining Perovskite with Silicon, Solar Cells Convert More Energy from Sun
Link to article: Perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaics: Technological disruption without business disruption DOI: 10.1063/5.0054086 WASHINGTON, August 17, 2021 — Many countries around the world are committed to reducing […]
Quantum Random Number Generator Sets Benchmark for Size, Performance
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 — As pervasive as they are in everyday uses, like encryption and security, randomly generated digital numbers are seldom truly random. So far, […]
Synthetic Tree Enhances Solar Steam Generation for Harvesting Drinking Water
WASHINGTON , June 22, 2021 — About 2.2 billion people globally lack reliable access to clean drinking water, according to the United Nations, and the growing impacts of […]
Nontoxic, Flexible Energy Converters Could Power Wearable Devices
Link to article: Carbon nanotube thermoelectric devices by direct printing: Towards wearable energy converters DOI: 10.1063/5.0042349 WASHINGTON, April 27, 2021 — A wide variety of portable and […]