The use of machine learning to predict chemical properties offers the promise of great technological advances, with applications from cleaner energy to faster pharmaceutical drug design.
For building quantum computers, making use of both electronics and photonics - technology that works with light - on one and the same chip, is promising.
A new study shows that an electronic fluid can flow through materials without any electrical resistance, thereby perfectly eliminating a fundamental source of resistance that forms the ultimate limit for ballistic electrons. This result opens the way for improved electronic devices that do not heat up as much as existing technologies.