Budapest — The CERN Council on Friday approved an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics, setting out priorities for the next decades of research and confirming plans for a possible new collider. The…
“Yolks” and “shells” improve rechargeable batteries
Aluminum could give a big boost to capacity and power of lithium-ion batteries. [caption id="attachment_5486" align="alignnone" width="605"] The gray sphere at center represents an aluminum nanoparticle, forming the "yolk." The outer light-blue layer represents a…
Superconducting qubit and magnetic sphere hybrid
Quantum behavior of millimeter-sized magnets unraveled [caption id="attachment_5483" align="alignright" width="300"] Illustration of magnet-qubit coupled system*Copyright : © 2015 Yutaka Tabuchi[/caption] Researchers in the University of Tokyo have demonstrated that it is possible to exchange a…
Google Partners with Ancestry.com to Study Aging
Calico, the two-year-old life sciences company backed by Google, struck a deal with DNA testing service AncestryDNA on July 22 to gain access to anonymized genetic information to help with Calico’s research on aging. AncestryDNA is a…
NASA Deputy Administrator to Tour Composites Technology Center…
[caption id="attachment_5474" align="alignright" width="985"] The 21-foot robot arm moves on a track in the Composites Technology Center in NASA’s National Center for Advanced Manufacturing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The robotic…