A cooling system that works without electricity

Electricity needed to cool a Las Vegas building reduced by 21 percent in a model

A fluid-cooling panel designed by Shanhui Fan, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, and former research associates Aaswath Raman and Eli Goldstein being tested on the roof of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building. This is an updated version of the panels used in the research published in Nature Energy. (credit: Aaswath Raman)

KEEP | Leading AI country will be ‘ruler of the world,’ says Putin

"When one party’s drones are destroyed by drones of another, it will have no other choice but to surrender.”

Autonomous drone swarms (credit: U.S. Dept. of Defense)

A single-molecule room-temperature transistor made from 14 atoms

Columbia researchers wired a single molecular cluster to gold electrodes to show that it exhibits a quantized and controllable flow of charge at room temperature. (credit: Bonnie Choi/Columbia University)

Astronomers detect 15 high-frequency ‘fast radio bursts’ from distant galaxy

Were these powerful bursts used by an extraterrestrial civilization to power exploratory spacecraft?

Greenbank Radio Telescope (credit: Geremia/CC)

Will AI enable the third stage of life?

By Max Tegmark, PhD

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Single-molecule-level data storage may achieve 100 times higher data density

Imagine storing more than 25 terabytes of data in a device the size of a U.S. quarter or British 50p coin

Data center (credit: Getty)

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