[ The experimental setup researchers in Marta Hatzell’s lab used to test their new electrochemical reactor for carbon capture. Credit: Candler Hobbs Engineers at Georgia Tech have designed a process that converts carbon dioxide removed from the air into useful raw material that could be used for new plastics, chemicals, or fuels. Their approach dramatically … Read more
[ The new paper, “Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor,” details two novel attacks that could compromise the billions of Intel processors in use. Credit: Hosein Yavarzadeh Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise … Read more
[ Ball milling chamber contents: spodumene, reactant, and steel balls. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames National Laboratory When people think of chemistry, the image that typically comes to mind is a variety of colored liquids in beakers, flasks, and test tubes in a lab. But in actual practice, chemistry can involve materials in all … Read more
[ Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said Friday. The data center planned for Fort Wayne was announced in January. But Google disclosed the project’s cost Friday and … Read more
[ UAW President Shawn Fain said workers at Daimler Truck are prepared to strike if their demands are not met. Around 7,200 workers with Daimler Truck in three southern US states were poised Friday for a potential strike as labor contract talks headed down to the wire. Representatives for the United Auto Workers and Daimler … Read more
[ In a new carbon capture testing apparatus, synthetic air flows through a column. The sorbent traps and captures the carbon molecules. The device measures how fast the sorbent becomes saturated with CO2. Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST More than 100 facilities designed to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere are in various stages of development … Read more
[ Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai says the company is well positioned for the artificial intelligence era with the technology woven into its platform and services. Google’s parent Alphabet on Thursday trounced revenue and profit expectations for the first quarter of this year, causing shares to leap more than 12 percent. Alphabet reported … Read more
[ Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Gov. Gavin Newsom said on April 25 that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves. Standing in the middle of a solar farm in Yolo County, Newsom … Read more
[ Single-clock performance at NIST and at sea. a, The 3 U, 19-inch rackmount iodine optical clock occupies a volume of 35 l and consumes less than 100 W. b, Measured phase noise for the iodine clock. c, Overlapping Allan deviation for the iodine clock operating at NIST and at sea. At short timescales, the instability in a … Read more
[ Superior output and transmission properties are demonstrated in tellurium oxide-based amorphous p-type thin-film transistors (Se:Te = 1:4) processed with an optimal selenium alloying ratio. The optimized thin-film transistor showcases a hole mobility of 15 cm2/Vs and an on/off current ratio of 107, closely resembling key electrical attributes of early n-type oxide thin-film transistors. Additionally, … Read more
