In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool to predict how materials will behave based on their atomic structure, helping researchers discover new materials faster and reduce reliance on trial-and-error methods.…
Graphene on toast, anyone?
Rice University scientists create patterned graphene onto food, paper, cloth, cardboard [caption id="attachment_14408" align="alignnone" width="655"] Rice University graduate student Yieu Chyan, left, and Professor James Tour. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)[/caption] HOUSTON – Rice University scientists…
Survival flair
[caption id="attachment_14405" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: GCTC[/caption] ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is gearing up for his second mission to the International Space Station in 2019 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. All astronauts who fly on Soyuz do a winter…
Chat tool simplifies tricky online privacy policies
[caption id="attachment_14402" align="alignright" width="367"] Kassem Fawaz UW-MADISON[/caption] Register for an account on just about any website or download an app to your smartphone and you likely will encounter that pesky, “I certify that I’ve read…
Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things
Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold. [caption id="attachment_14399" align="alignnone" width="621"] MIT researchers have built a new chip, hardwired to perform public-key encryption, that consumes only 1/400 as…