In a paper published in PRX Quantum, a team led by University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Physics Department Assoc. Prof. Jacob Covey laid out a new concept that could turn helium’s light weight into the next generation of quantum computers. 

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have engineered a different kind of ribosome: one dedicated to making a single type of protein. 

In the Journal of Applied Physics, researchers explore an eggshell-inspired design as a potential spacecraft protection material. It may seem counterintuitive to use eggshells as a blueprint for strength, but they found that organizing water-filled aluminum eggshells into an array adds useful material properties when placed blunt side down between two aluminum impact plates. Rather than being concentrated within a single eggshell, the energy from an impact gradually dissipates through the material, allowing each shell to sequentially collapse and deform.

Warwick researchers have created a new material combining two properties, magnetism and electrical polarisation, that scientists have struggled to bring together for decades – and crucially, it works at close to room temperature.

Two researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards for their work in superconducting logic systems and interactive human-centered computing. Their projects will address the challenge of scaling quantum computing and put artificial intelligence to work in Appalachian communities.

Clinicians ability to monitor oxygen support of fetuses during labor is extremely inadequate. This is critical because insufficient oxygen support of unborn babies significantly increases the risks for infant and maternal health. With support from a newly awarded contract from the ARPA-H MOCS program, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University across several of its Technology Platforms and faculty labs join forces to address this critical unmet need in maternal and women’s health.