by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | Hardware, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Researchers at Stanford University, Princeton University, and Dexterity recently developed TidyBot++, a holonomic mobile robot that can perform various household chores and could help to train or test new algorithms for robotics applications.
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | nanomaterials, Nanophysics, Nanotechnology, PHYS.ORG, Physics
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals are made of atomically thin layers, held together by weak van der Waals forces. These materials have been the focus of numerous studies, as their unique properties make them ideal for studying various exotic and rare physical...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | Astronomy, Astronomy & Space, PHYS.ORG
The LUX ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter experiment is a large research effort involving over 200 scientists and engineers at 40 institutions worldwide. Its key objective is to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by analyzing data collected by the LZ...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
Quantum computing holds the promise of outperforming classical computing on some optimization and data processing tasks. The creation of highly performing large-scale quantum computers, however, relies on the ability to support controlled interactions between qubits,...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jan 31, 2025 | General Physics, PHYS.ORG, Physics
Dipole toroidal modes are a unique set of excitations that are predicted to occur in various physical systems, ranging from atomic nuclei to metamaterials. What characterizes these excitations, or modes, is a toroidal distribution of currents, which results in the...
