Materials Today: Holes help to make sponges and English muffins useful (and in the case of the latter, delicious). Without holes, sponges wouldn’t be flexible enough to bend into small crevices, and muffins wouldn’t be able to sop up the perfect…
Physics World: Researchers in Italy and Austria have constructed a new device that can transmit coherent quantum information as a superposition of single photons. Known as a quantum memristor, the device could be used to fabricate quantum versions of so-called neuromorphic…
IEEE Spectrum: The human brain, which is made up of some 86 billion neurons connected in a neural network, can perform remarkable feats of computing. Yet it consumes just a dozen or so watts. How does it do it? IEEE Spectrum…
Materials Today: Computers may be growing smaller and more powerful, but they require a great deal of energy to operate. The total amount of energy the US dedicates to computing has risen dramatically over the past decade and is quickly approaching…
Semiconductor Engineering: Chipmakers are beginning to re-examine how much dark silicon should be used in a heterogenous system, where it works best, and what alternatives are available — a direct result of a slowdown in Moore’s Law scaling and the increasing disaggregation of SoCs. The concept of dark silicon has…
