On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

Serendipitous meetings, scholarly collaborations, and an ethos of "encouraging junior faculty to think big" laid the ...

A team in Sweden has unraveled the hidden structure of a promising solar material using machine learning and advanced ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis demonstrated quantum tunneling in an electrical circuit, with ...

Fidget poppers are an example of "bistability," as the popped circles rest in one of two stable states. Purdue University researchers have taken this idea to its extreme, building robots that can be ...

Imagine being able to compose an email or steer a wheelchair directly with your thoughts. For millions of people living with ...

A first-of-its-kind test shows that reusing energy within a computer chip can work, thanks to two techy tricks.

Picture the smartphone in your pocket, the data centers powering artificial intelligence, or the wearable health monitors that track your heartbeat. All of them rely on energy-hungry memory chips to ...

The team was composed of UAB students Hunter Forsythe of Hoover and Williams Beaumont of Homewood and University of Alabama student Mallory Hamilton. Forsythe and Beaumont are both students in UAB’s ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.

How did the world of bits and bytes become the second-largest source of demand for construction workers, trailing only ...