Scientists flip the script and solve a longstanding spintronics challenge

detrimental to electronic performance—can actually enhance device efficiency by leveraging quantum properties. This discovery challenges decades of conventional thinking and paves the way for a new generation of ultra-low-power spintronic devices, which utilize the electron’s spin in addition to its charge to process and store data, offering a promising alternative to traditional electronics.

New imaging technique bridges the gap in microscale tomography

A team of international researchers have discovered a novel photothermal coherence tomography technique—frequency-multiplexed photothermal correlation tomography (FM-PCT)—that brings infrared thermography (IRT) from limited 2D imaging to 3D tomography.

MoonRanger’s instruments to gather data during 2029 lunar mission

NASA has tapped a lunar rover built at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, to advance our understanding of water on the moon as it autonomously explores near the lunar south pole. MoonRanger will be among the payloads aboard a 2029 mission to the moon. The rover will carry a neutron spectrometer to study the lunar soil for traces of hydrogen, a good indicator of the presence of water, and demonstrate new levels of autonomous navigation on the moon.