University spin-out secures funding to improve AI energy efficiency and bandwidth

A University of Cambridge spin-out company working to improve AI efficiency and bandwidth has raised €25 million in new funding.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 11, 2025 ~3 min

Scientists develop ‘smart pyjamas’ to monitor sleep disorders

Researchers have developed comfortable, washable ‘smart pyjamas’ that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for sticky

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 18, 2025 ~6 min


Graphene at 20: still no sign of the promised space elevator, but here’s how this wonder material is quietly changing the world

While it’s too early to say whether graphene will live up to the hype, it’s now appearing in everything from motorcycle helmets to aircon units.

Stephen Lyth, Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow, Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde • conversation
Sept. 23, 2024 ~8 min

‘Smart choker’ uses AI to help people with speech impairment to communicate

Researchers have developed a wearable ‘smart choker’ that uses a combination of flexible electronics and artificial intelligence techniques to allow people

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 13, 2024 ~5 min

Physicists create five-lane superhighway for electrons

The work could lead to ultra-efficient electronics and more.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
June 4, 2024 ~6 min

Jeong Min Park earns 2024 Schmidt Science Fellowship

The doctoral student will use the prize to find novel phases of matter and particles.

Sandi Miller | Department of Physics • mit
May 16, 2024 ~4 min

Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds

An exotic electronic state observed by MIT physicists could enable more robust forms of quantum computing.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Feb. 21, 2024 ~9 min

Combining two types of molecular boron nitride could create a hybrid material used in faster, more powerful electronics

Two forms of the same boron nitride molecules couldn’t look and act more different – but combining them could lead to applications that have the best of both worlds.

Abhijit Biswas, Research Scientist in Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University • conversation
Jan. 24, 2024 ~7 min


MIT physicists turn pencil lead into “gold”

Thin flakes of graphite can be tuned to exhibit three important properties.

Elizabeth A. Thomson | Materials Research Laboratory • mit
Nov. 14, 2023 ~5 min

From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges

A newly discovered type of electronic behavior could help with packing more data into magnetic memory devices.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News • mit
Oct. 18, 2023 ~9 min

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