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RSS IEEE Spectrum Computing

  • Mammalian Cell-Evolution Machine May Bring New Vaccines July 27, 2025
    Evolution naturally produces the fittest living things for a given environment, but labs can speed up that process to uncover how cells respond to specific pressures. These directed evolution experiments typically rely on genetically simple organisms like bacteria or yeast, but a new system pushes that paradigm into mammalian cells—notoriously difficult targets for new drugs […]
    Shannon Cuthrell
  • Startup Claims up to 100x Better Embedded Computing Efficiency July 24, 2025
    There’s a growing need for CPUs that can live life on the edge. That is, computing for a long time embedded in hard-to-get-to places and surviving on battery power or energy they can scrounge from the environment. Frustrated with inherent inefficiencies in the architecture of ultralow-power microprocessors, the founders of startup Efficient Computer decided to […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • IEEE Makes Strides to Improve Online Safety for Kids July 22, 2025
    Kids are using the Internet at a younger age and spending more time online, according to UNICEF. One in three Internet users worldwide is younger than 18, it reports. An increasing amount of harmful online practices and content is impacting children mentally, emotionally, and physically, as well as posing a risk to their safety and […]
    Kathy Pretz
  • Quantinuum Claims Key Step Toward Scaling Up Quantum Computers July 10, 2025
    Quantum computers theoretically could rapidly find answers to problems that regular computers would take eons to solve, but they have to first overcome their error-prone nature. Now quantum computing firm Quantinuum says its machines can, for the first time, run all the operations needed to answer otherwise intractable questions in an error-compensating way.Quantum computers perform […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially July 2, 2025
    Benchmarking large language models presents some unusual challenges. For one, the main purpose of many LLMs is to provide compelling text that’s indistinguishable from human writing. And success in that task may not correlate with metrics traditionally used to judge processor performance, such as instruction execution rate.RELATED: LLM Benchmarking Shows Capabilities Doubling Every 7 MonthsBut […]
    Glenn Zorpette

RSS IEEE Spectrum Semiconductors

  • What the CHIPS Act Looks Like Now July 28, 2025
    The U.S. CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 aimed to reestablish advanced manufacturing for logic and memory in the United States, as well as boost or establish other chipmaking activities. The job is far from complete, but a look at where the money is expected to go points to a potentially broad geographic boost for […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Ferroelectric Helps Break Transistor Limits July 28, 2025
    Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a physical limit that typically enforces trade-offs between how well a transistor performs in the “on” state versus […]
    Katherine Bourzac
  • Startup Claims up to 100x Better Embedded Computing Efficiency July 24, 2025
    There’s a growing need for CPUs that can live life on the edge. That is, computing for a long time embedded in hard-to-get-to places and surviving on battery power or energy they can scrounge from the environment. Frustrated with inherent inefficiencies in the architecture of ultralow-power microprocessors, the founders of startup Efficient Computer decided to […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Researchers Stabilize Novel State of Matter for Faster Compute July 23, 2025
    A team of researchers working in different universities across the United States found a new technique to unlock a hidden state of matter that could make electronics times faster in the future.This novel state of matter is a metallic phase in an otherwise insulating compound that can only be accessed by using ultrafast lasers. This […]
    Meghie Rodrigues
  • 2D Transistors Could Come Sooner Than Expected July 17, 2025
    Chipmaking giants like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC see a future where key parts of silicon transistors are replaced with semiconductors that are only a few atoms thick. Although they’ve reported progress toward that goal, that future is generally thought to be more than a decade away. Now, a startup spun out of MIT thinks it […]
    Samuel K. Moore

RSS ESA Telecom

  • Satellite ready to test link for global 5G-broadband July 28, 2025
    A small satellite designed to deliver direct 5G-broadband access from space to a compact ground device, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), has made it into orbit after its launch. The planned demonstration link is an early step in exploring space-enabled fast connectivity for inaccessible regions – highlighting future possibilities such as connecting rural […]
  • Beam-hopping JoeySat marks two years in orbit May 21, 2025
    An innovative satellite that offers reliable connectivity wherever and whenever it is needed – in crowded places such as summer festivals as well as following passengers in planes, trains and automobiles – has celebrated its second anniversary in space.
  • ESA links with Japan for speedy and secure communications April 8, 2025
    People will communicate up to a thousand times faster using high-capacity optical links between satellites, thanks to a partnership agreed today between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Space Compass Corporation in Japan.
  • ESA and GSMA Foundry empower industry to achieve seamless global connectivity March 7, 2025
    At MWC25 Barcelona, the European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled a funding initiative, promoted in partnership with GSMA Foundry, to support projects aimed at integrating satellite and terrestrial networks for seamless connectivity.
  • ESA and Mobile Satellite Services Association partner to advance space-based 5G/6G networks March 5, 2025
    With a new Memorandum of Intent (MoI) signed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA), seamless mobile connectivity that extends everywhere from rural areas to bustling cities has just become closer to reality. The collaboration aims to overcome current coverage limitations by seamlessly combining space and terrestrial systems, helping […]

RSS NASA Education

  • Laine Havens: Melding Science and Storytelling July 30, 2025
    Science Communication Intern – Goddard Space Flight Center Laine Havens — now a senior at Cornell University and three-time NASA intern — grew up with a deep curiosity about how the universe works and a family that encouraged her to explore it. Throughout her childhood, Laine was immersed in science and exposed to wonderful science […]
    Ashley Balzer
  • Join Second Lady Usha Vance as She Reads to Children at NASA Johnson July 28, 2025
    As part of her Summer Reading Challenge, Second Lady Usha Vance will host an event for children in grades K-8 on Monday, Aug. 4, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Media are invited. NASA astronaut Suni Williams will join Ms. Vance to read a space-related book to children and participate in other space-related activities. […]
    Gerelle Q. Dodson
  • NASA eClips STEM Student Ambassadors Light Up CNU’s 2025 STEM Community Day July 22, 2025
    More than 2,000 curious visitors from Newport News and the surrounding Hampton Roads region of Virginia flocked to Christopher Newport University (CNU) on May 31, 2025 for their annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) Community Day, and the NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace’s Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) made […]
  • NASA Challenge Wraps, Student Teams Complete Space Suit Challenges July 22, 2025
    After months of work in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) challenge, more than 100 students from 12 universities across the United States traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to showcase potential user interface designs for future generations of spacesuits and rovers.   NASA Johnson’s simulated Moon and Mars surface, called […]
    Sumer Loggins
  • GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips July 21, 2025
    On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for microscopes. The NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) taught two engaging lessons focused on macroinvertebrates and plankton, with a surprising star of the show – mosquitoes! Camp Young, […]

RSS IEEE Spectrum Telecom

  • The Stratosphere Will Be Telecom’s Next Frontier July 31, 2025
    With more than 8,000 Starlink satellites in the sky today, low Earth orbit may seem like the place to be to connect the next generation of Internet and cellphone customers. However, some players are placing their bets slightly closer to the ground.Starting next year, Tokyo’s SoftBank Corp. will be beaming a prototype 4G and 5G […]
    Maurizio Arseni
  • Silicon Is Coming to Smartphone Batteries for a Big Energy Boost July 30, 2025
    A novel lithium-ion battery that uses silicon in its anodes may have the highest energy density of any battery currently commercially available. Its manufacturer, Enovix, says it has shipped the new battery to a leading smartphone company for a debut in mobile phones later this year.Many of the lithium-ion batteries that power everything from mobile […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Over-the-Air Lasers Aim to Solve the Internet’s “Middle Mile” July 29, 2025
    Twenty years ago, Web-savvy folks were focused on solving the Internet’s “last-mile” problem. Today, by contrast, one of the biggest bottlenecks to expanding Internet access is rather around a “middle-mile” problem—crossing cities and tough terrain, not just driveways and country roads. Taara, a spin-off of X (formerly Google X), is promoting a simple alternative to […]
    Margo Anderson
  • The Telecommunications Pioneer Who Helped Connect the World July 25, 2025
    Without Seizo Onoe, cellular phone networks would not be the source of global connectivity we know today. The IEEE life member was instrumental in driving the standardization for 3G and 4G mobile networks.The first-generation networks that launched in the late 1970s and early 1980s were largely country-specific, designed for making only domestic or regional calls. […]
    Julianne Pepitone
  • Here Comes the World Wide Web of Everything July 24, 2025
    When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, represented a daring leap. It combined the age-old idea of hypertext with the Internet’s global reach. Tim Berners-Lee’s new language offered up a lingua franca for interconnected […]
    Gabriel René