Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers discover a new approach for capturing energy from light-generated, ‘hot’ electrons, avoiding wasteful heat loss. Los Alamos National Laboratory…
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First laboratory research of an interaction between dark matter and antimatter
Dark matter and the imbalance between matter and antimatter are two of the biggest mysteries of the universe. Astronomical observations tell us that dark matter makes up…
Innovative compounds for future generations of electronic devices
This year Renana Gershoni-Poranne was awarded a Branco Weiss Fellowship. The ETH chemist will use the research grant to design innovative compounds that can…
Carnegie Mellon University receives supercomputer cluster
Carnegie Mellon University has received a supercomputer from Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) that will be reconstructed into a computing cluster operated by the Parallel Data Lab (PDL)…
New SBB innovation unit now is at EPFL
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) opened a new innovation unit today at EPFL’s Innovation Park, further deepening its ties with the School. What do AI-driven…
Bots can beat humans in online games
Using deductive reasoning, the bot identifies friend or foe to ensure victory over humans in certain online games. MIT researchers have developed a bot…
Researchers propose new rules for Internet fairness
Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers demonstrated that Google's new congestion control algorithm (CCA) gives an unfair advantage to its own traffic, the…
MIT and Lamborghini cooperate for new supercars
MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe. “He was here to dream, and I said 'OK, let's dream together,'” recalls…
New approach to understand crystallisation
MSE’s Caroline Gorham and David Laughlin have published a paper that considers a novel framework to understand crystallisation—the process that transforms a liquid or…
Previously unseen phase of matter with ultrafast laser pulses
Using light to generate order in an exotic material. Adding energy to any material, such as by heating it, almost always makes its structure…