by Ingrid Fadelli | Mar 31, 2025 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Hi Tech & Innovation, TECHXPLORE
Photodiodes are widely used devices based on semiconducting materials that can convert light into electrical current. These devices are central components of various contemporary technologies, including photovoltaics (PVs) and some sensing, imaging, measurement and...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Mar 31, 2025 | General Physics, PHYS.ORG, Physics
Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light and is thus impossible to detect using conventional techniques employed in particle physics. In recent years, groups of physicists worldwide have been trying to observe this matter...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Mar 31, 2025 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Humanoid robots, which have a body structure that mirrors that of humans, could rapidly and effectively tackle a wide range of tasks in real-world settings. These robots and their underlying control algorithms have improved considerably in recent years. Many of them...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Mar 31, 2025 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Brain circuits are known to gradually form and develop after birth as the result of both innate biological processes and life experiences. Past studies suggest that the initial development of brain circuits spans across two different stages.
by Ingrid Fadelli | Mar 31, 2025 | General Physics, PHYS.ORG, Physics
The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of the symmetries it describes is the so-called U(1)Y hypercharge:...
