Spring is in bloom in the northern hemisphere, which means it's time for game developers, tabletop enthusiasts, cosplay ...

A team of researchers led by the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated a programmable superconducting diode at the LaAlO 3 /KTaO 3 (LAO/KTO) interface, an advance that holds potential to enhance/help ...

Smart home company Aqara has launched what it says is the first camera certified for Matter, the open source standard that enables interoperability across brands, like Google and Amazon. The Aqara ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

IKEA’s Matter-compatible Kajplats smart light bulbs are now available in the US. The bulbs are very inexpensive, starting at $6. IKEA’s Matter smart home gear has had connectivity issues, but the ...

Atomically thin semiconductors such as tungsten disulfide (WS 2) are promising materials for future photonic technologies. Despite being only a single layer of atoms thick, they host tightly bound ...

Many users are discovering that IKEA’s new line of Matter smart home products is buggy and unreliable. Matter’s multi-admin is a disaster and causes many issues if you try to control these lights with ...

Indie game developer Matter Team and publisher Gaijin Network have launched a free demo for the game Active Matter as part of Steam Next Fest. If you haven't seen the game yet, this is a first-person ...

Atomically thin semiconductors such as tungsten disulfide (WS 2) are promising materials for future photonic technologies. Despite being only a single layer of atoms thick, they host tightly bound ...

A newly developed hybrid photonic platform couples a tungsten disulfide monolayer to Mie void resonators—subwavelength air cavities carved into a high-index bismuth telluride substrate. Atomically ...

Artificial intelligence can make smart homes smarter, help us manage our days, and even help us plan major life changes. This series looks at the new — and sometimes surprising — ways AI is being used ...