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58McGill-born technology aims to revolutionize headphones, speakers
Ora’s technology uses graphene, a ‘wonder material’ that has yet to fulfill its promise
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58Lithium-Ion Pioneer Introduces New Battery That’s Three Times Better
Formula would also be noncombustible and work in cold weather.
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44Scientists have confirmed a brand new phase of matter: time crystals
It's official, time crystals are real.
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58Canadian creates nanotech to make head transplants less risky
A new nanotechnology tool could help fuse the spinal cords of a head to its new body.
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364Tests confirm that Germany’s massive nuclear fusion machine really works
Harnessing the power of the Sun.
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53Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol
In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their finding, which involves nanofabrication and catalysis science, was serendipitous.
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225Team Discovers New Method of Making Promising Material
A team of researchers won a NASA Invention of the Year Award for a new process creating boron nitride nanotubes, a promising new material that could help NASA on its journey to Mars.
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46Google Forges Path to Quantum Computing
Thanks to an ambitious effort at Google, quantum computing may become a reality within the next two or three years.
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47Record-Setting Hard Drive Writes Information One Atom At a Time
Researchers working in the Netherlands have developed an atomic-scale rewritable data-storage device capable of packing 500 terabits onto a single square inch. Incredibly, that's enough to store every book written by humans on a surface the size of a postage stamp.
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78Hawking backs interstellar travel project
Professor Stephen Hawking backs a project to send spaceships to another solar system within a generation
