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  • Stretchy Circuits Break Records for Flexible Electronics March 18, 2024
    Newly developed intrinsically stretchable circuits are thousands of times as fast as and possess 20 times as many transistors as previous intrinsically stretchable electronics. The researchers at Stanford University who developed the circuits have already demonstrated their use in a skin-like Braille-reading sensor array that they say is more sensitive than a human fingertip.In general, […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits March 15, 2024
    The Chinese consumer electronics company TCL Technology recently unveiled a monstrous, 163-inch 4K Micro-LED television that one home theater expert described as “tall as Darth Vader.” Each of the TV’s 8.3 million pixels is an independent, miniscule LED, a feat for which TCL charges over $100,000. But here’s the real surprise: TCL’s new TV isn’t […]
    Matthew S. Smith
  • Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip March 13, 2024
    Sunnyvale, Calif., AI supercomputer firm Cerebras says its next generation of waferscale AI chips can do double the performance of the previous generation while consuming the same amount of power. The Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) contains 4 trillion transistors, a more than 50 percent increase over the previous generation thanks to the use of […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Wireless Channel Modeling for Dynamic Terrestrial Environments March 7, 2024
    As wireless systems become complex and reach for more spectrum, RF engineers must rely on high-fidelity simulation solutions to model and test their proposed new networks effectively. We offer tools to address these challenges and enable network architects and mission planners to digitally model and simulate dynamic wireless networks within an accurate systems simulation environment. […]
    Ansys
  • Multiphysics Modeling of Electrical Motors March 6, 2024
    To reduce global warming and the associated effects, the transportation and energy sectors are adopting measures to make different applications potentially fossil free. This has led to a surge in demand for electric machines and the related design and development efforts. The designs of these electrical machines need to meet various specifications, including efficiency and […]
    COMSOL
  • Stretchy Circuits Break Records for Flexible Electronics March 18, 2024
    Newly developed intrinsically stretchable circuits are thousands of times as fast as and possess 20 times as many transistors as previous intrinsically stretchable electronics. The researchers at Stanford University who developed the circuits have already demonstrated their use in a skin-like Braille-reading sensor array that they say is more sensitive than a human fingertip.In general, […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small March 17, 2024
    A startling change in medical ultrasound is working its way through hospitals and physicians’ offices. The long-standing, state-of-the-art ultrasound machine that’s pushed around on a cart, with cables and multiple probes dangling, is being wheeled aside permanently in favor of handheld probes that send images to a phone. These devices are small enough to fit […]
    F. Levent Degertekin
  • Laser-Driven Pacemaker Guides Ailing Hearts With Light March 16, 2024
    When 11 University of Chicago researchers reported that they had installed and tested their laser-driven pacemaker in a live animal, their Nature paper laid claim only to “the first minimally invasive optical stimulation of an in vivo pig heart.”They appear to have achieved more than that. Together, the team designed, fabricated, and tested what may […]
    Douglas McCormick
  • Cerebras Unveils Its Next Waferscale AI Chip March 13, 2024
    Sunnyvale, Calif., AI supercomputer firm Cerebras says its next generation of waferscale AI chips can do double the performance of the previous generation while consuming the same amount of power. The Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) contains 4 trillion transistors, a more than 50 percent increase over the previous generation thanks to the use of […]
    Samuel K. Moore
  • Injectable Microchip Tracks Animal Health March 12, 2024
    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Around the world, many pets and working animals are microchipped. It’s a simple process: A tiny transponder with an identification number is enclosed in a rice-grain-sized cylinder and injected under the skin, so that if an animal is lost […]
    Julianne Pepitone
  • Supporting rapid disaster response through space March 15, 2024
    ESA has launched a new partnership with industry through a project called SMART-CONNECT. The project aims to mitigate the challenges presented when traditional communication channels are disrupted during times of crisis, through facilitating the efficient and timely exchange of secure information between first responders and disaster control centres.
  • Space-enabled connectivity steers self-driving cars March 8, 2024
    In one of the longest-running trials of a self-driving vehicle, collecting data over 13 000 km of autonomous travel, Darwin Innovation Group has been testing a novel driverless shuttle bus at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, in Oxford, UK; home to ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT). The technology is funded under […]
  • Satellite communications for safer and greener aviation January 26, 2024
    The first commercial flights of a programme that uses Iris satellite technology to help modernise air traffic management and reduce carbon emissions have taken place.
  • Demonstrating connectivity’s latest technologies December 14, 2023
    A satellite has been launched that will demonstrate the latest technologies for connectivity and for Earth observation. The ALISIO-1 satellite was developed under an ESA Pioneer Partnership Project with satellite manufacturer and operator Open Cosmos, based at Harwell in the UK.
  • Unlocking the connectivity of 5G/6G satellite telecommunications systems November 29, 2023
    ESA is helping to unlock next-generation space connectivity to support communication everywhere and anywhere through the advancement of a new software platform from Aalyria, an innovative young company.
  • NASA Wallops Offers Career Inspiration to Delmarva Students March 18, 2024
    NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, partners, and area employers joined forces on a mission to inspire more than 4,500 eighth-grade students seeking answers to all questions “career” at the 2024 Junior Achievement (JA) Inspire event. The annual career-exploration event was held March 12-13 at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Maryland, featuring more than […]
    Olivia F. Littleton
  • 8 Must-Have NASA Resources for Science Teachers in 2024 March 13, 2024
    No one can bring the excitement of Earth and space science to the classroom like NASA!  Launch your lessons to the next level with these eight essential resources for K-12 teachers: Experience the Total Solar Eclipse  Whether you’re on or off the path of totality (find out here!), we’ve put together this guide to help […]
  • NASA Launches Snap It! Computer Game to Learn About Eclipses March 8, 2024
    On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible to over 30 million people across North America. To help kids learn about solar eclipses, NASA is launching Snap It! An Eclipse Photo Adventure. The Snap It! game – designed for kids ages 7 and up – lets players help out the Traveler, an enthusiastic character who […]
  • Texas Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station March 7, 2024
    The San Antonio River Authority and students from the Advanced Learning Academy in San Antonio, Texas, will have an opportunity Friday, March 8, to hear from NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara aboard the International Space Station. The space to Earth call will air live at 12:30 p.m. EST March 8, on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and […]
    Roxana Bardan
  • NASA Pi Day Challenge Serves Up a Mathematical Marvel March 7, 2024
    UPDATED March 15, 2024: The answers to the 2024 NASA Pi Day Challenge are now available online. Find the illustrated answer keys here. Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. March 14 marks the annual celebration of […]
    Anthony Greicius
  • Optical Fibers Could Illuminate the Moon’s Core March 14, 2024
    In addition to flags, spacecraft parts, and poop, Apollo astronauts left behind a quintet of seismic stations on the moon’s surface. In the 1970s, those stations gave selenologists (scientists who study the moon) early glimpses into what lurked under the lunar surface. In fact, that Apollo-era equipment helped establish that the moon is tectonically active. […]
    Rahul Rao
  • FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency March 13, 2024
    The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers. In an order published last week, the FCC wrote: “SpaceX may not deploy any satellites designed for operational altitudes below the International Space Station,” whose orbit can range […]
    Mark Harris
  • Tiny Laser Opens Door to Chip-Size Sensors March 12, 2024
    A new ultra-energy-efficient tiny laser on a chip could enable powerful medical sensors to fit within a phone, new research finds.The new device is a kind of frequency comb—a specialized laser that generates multiple wavelengths of light, each at a regular frequency interval. On a spectrogram it would look a bit like the teeth of […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • 6G Reflector Chip Tech Offers Road to 33 Gb/s March 8, 2024
    Using 3-D stacks of reflectors on microchips could triple data rates of wireless links to help speed development of 6G communications, a new study finds.Most current wireless communications technology, such as 5G phones, operate at frequencies below 6 gigahertz. For greater data rates, researchers are striving to develop 6G communications that use frequencies above 20 […]
    Charles Q. Choi
  • Wireless Channel Modeling for Dynamic Terrestrial Environments March 7, 2024
    As wireless systems become complex and reach for more spectrum, RF engineers must rely on high-fidelity simulation solutions to model and test their proposed new networks effectively. We offer tools to address these challenges and enable network architects and mission planners to digitally model and simulate dynamic wireless networks within an accurate systems simulation environment. […]
    Ansys