25+ min ago   (521+ words) By Mason Wakley18 August 2026 A bonding strategy to form consecutive quintuple bonds has never been seen before However, having a series of consecutive multiple bonds between three or more atoms –known as cumulative bonding – is more challenging. Cumulated dienes (C=C=C)…...

55+ min ago   (226+ words) The discovery is the result of cross-disciplinary research between Perimeter Institute researchers Junwu Huang and Mohamad Shalaby in collaboration with Anson Hook at the University of Maryland. “These exclusions were saying the strength of dark matter had to be 108 weaker…...

45+ min ago   (799+ words) Imagine being 18, enrolled in engineering school and expected to follow a fairly predictable path. Then imagine walking away from it. That is what Rohan Naidu did. He left engineering at 18, bought his first-ever plane ticket and joined the founding class of…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (304+ words) Australia and Japan have completed the first successful field trials of a jointly developed high-energy laser system, called Boobook, at test sites in South Australia, Australia’s Department of Defence announced Tuesday. The trials took place at the Cultana Training Area…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (544+ words) Semiconductor Engineering Research Bits: Aug. 18 Edge AI hardware/algorithm co-design; memtransistor with programmable response speeds; artificial synapse with long- and short-term memory. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and TetraMem combined memristive analog in-memory computing hardware with hyperdimensional computing…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (778+ words) Until now, magnetic levitation capable of exploiting strong coupling between motion and spin waves required cryogenic cooling. Yttrium iron garnet, a ‘soft’ magnet, has been stably levitated at room temperature using a magnetic Paul trap, a feat previously limited to…...

7+ hour, 22+ min ago   (278+ words) Millisecond pulses let researchers reach extreme temperatures on heat-sensitive glass, producing a semiconductor that generates up to 50 times more electrical current from light Credit: Shahar Artzi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The study, published in Small Structures, was led by Shahar…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (362+ words) Published 08/17/2026 at 6:55 p.m. By Oregon Coast Beach Connection Staff The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday approved a series of rule changes aimed at strengthening the state’s efforts to reduce whale entanglements in the commercial Dungeness crab fishery. The agency…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (623+ words) A new Argonne project is bringing together experts in quantum information science and high energy physics to build diamond-based quantum sensors capable of measuring electromagnetic fields with unprecedented precision. Understanding how the universe's smallest building blocks interact requires a precise…...

18+ hour, 46+ min ago   (210+ words) An international team of astronomers, including researchers from our Department of Physics, has observed a seemingly dormant supermassive black hole reawaken. In less than three years, the black hole at the centre of galaxy ESO 511-G030 became more than ten times…...