A 532-nm continuous-wave laser “sculpted” microscopic patterns onto a flake of As2S3, including a monochromatic portrait of Albert Einstein (700-nm point spacing) and a QR-code-like design (600-nm point spacing). Credit: XPANCEO A team of scientists…
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Cover illustration of the journal Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry), selected as the front cover for the issue featuring this research (Sun et al., 2026). Credit: Cover artwork by Yutaka Majima. Courtesy of the Royal…
Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday after Canvas went…
Ultrathin 2D materials have long been seen as the key to pushing computer chips beyond current limits. But new research reveals a subtle, often overlooked factor that can quietly undermine their performance and reshape which…
If you use Google’s Chrome browser for desktop, there’s probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That’s not necessarily a bad thing,…
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of…
In late March, Russian company Bureau 1440 brought into low orbit the first 16 broadband internet satellites of the new Rassvet constellation, already dubbed by observers and local media the Russian answer to SpaceX’s Starlink….
Your people are your weakness The data tells its own story. OC explains: Employees account for 57% of all security incidents and 45% of these incidents come when workers bypass or ignore security policies by,…
A chip designed to convert high voltages into lower levels in electronics — a process known as DC-DC step-down conversion — more efficiently using a piezoelectric resonator. Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering…
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of…
