UH engineers making AI faster, reducing power consumption
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Using sound to get objects to float works well if a single particle is levitated but it causes multiple particles to collapse into a clump in mid-air. Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have now found a way to keep them apart using charge. Their findings, published in PNAS, could benefit materials science, robotics, and microengineering.
Scientists from around the world are calling for urgent action to protect, restore, and sustainably manage one of the ocean’s least known yet most important ecosystems: the Marine Animal Forests. The appeal is presented in the document Marine Animal Forests: A Manifesto, launched by an international team of experts led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain, together with the Università del Salento, Italy.
Researchers propose a new route to electrically control magnetism using molecular ferroelectric altermagnets. By tuning molecular dipole alignments, the team demonstrates that spin polarization can be switched on, off, or reversed without altering magnetic order. Verified through theoretical model and first-principles studies in hybrid perovskites and metal-organic frameworks, this work introduces a flexible, low-power platform for electrically driven spintronics, bridging molecular ferroelectrics and next-generation magnetic memory technologies.