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Perovskite Solar Cells Double as Windows and Walls
This past August, Panasonic Holdings began testing and demonstrating a prototype version of its perovskite photovoltaic material. The prototype is in the form of semi-transparent glass balustrade...
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6G Could Pull Double Duty to Monitor Climate Change
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As the telecommunications industry slowly deploys 5G networks around the world, researchers are...
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New Watch Motor Seeks to Outsmart the Smartwatch
Could the analog quartz wristwatch, a mainstay of the timepiece market for more than half a century, be headed finally for a high-tech makeover? A French startup, SilMach, in Besançon, France, is...
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Fly the Hybrid Skies
Commercial aviation is the connective tissue of the modern world. Just before the global pandemic, on an average day 12 million people flew on some 100,000 commercial flights, according to the...
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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off
The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required.That was at least the vision recently laid out by Intel’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger, at the company’s 2023...
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Boosting Laser Power Will Help Lasers Blast Drones
Ray guns that can blast drones are among the many potential applications envisioned for so-called fiber lasers. Now scientists have discovered a way to boost the power of these lasers by roughly an...
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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?
As she drives her electric vehicle to her mother’s house, Monique’s battery gauge indicates that it’s time to reenergize. She stops at a charging station, taps her credit card at the pump, inserts a...
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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain
The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its core based on a simple formula: Take a very large neural network, train it on a huge dataset scraped...
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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships
The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new...
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This Engineer’s Hardware Is Inspired by the Brain
In work and in life, it’s easy to get stuck in your ways. That’s why Manan Suri has always looked to expand his horizons both professionally and personally. Growing up in India, he was used to...
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Why the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla
The rising popularity of artificial intelligence has impacted the entire world, including the tiny island of Anguilla. Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a unique...
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What Is an Electronic Sackbut?
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by...
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Build the Most Accurate DIY Quartz Clock Yet
Accurate timing is something that’s always been of interest to me. These days we rely heavily on time delivered to us over the Internet, through radio waves from GPS satellites, or broadcast stations....
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The Greening of Transportation
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets,...
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