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: Pulses of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light are used to study very fast processes and very small things. Generating these pulses has become routine with a technique called high-harmonic generation, which uses an “upconversion” material to transform low-frequency pulses to…
New Civil Engineer: A robotic dog fitted with in-built laser scanners has been put to work by Bam Nuttall on a remote construction site in Shetland. Bam Nuttall successfully trialled the integrated Trimble X7 laser scanner with Boston Dynamics’ Spot® robot in…
PhysOrg: We live in a world made and run by RNA, the equally important sibling of the genetic molecule DNA. In fact, evolutionary biologists hypothesize that RNA existed and…
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…
