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New memory survives temperatures hotter than lava

Novel memory chip survives temperatures hotter than lava
Gra/HfOx/W device and cross-section image. a, optical image of a single device with ~1 um ×1 um device size. b, cross-section TEM image and EELS mapping of W, Hf and C elements. Credit: Science (2026). DOI: 10.1126/science.aeb9934

The electronics inside your phone, your car, and every satellite currently orbiting Earth share one critical weakness: heat. Push them past about 200 degrees Celsius and they start to fail. For decades, that thermal ceiling has been one of the hardest walls in engineering. Now a team at the University of Southern California may have just found a way around it.

In a study published in Science, researchers led by Joshua Yang, Arthur B...

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Analog hardware may solve Internet of Things’ speed bumps and bottlenecks

Event-based sensing system based on a piezoelectric haptic sensor array, event-triggered circuitry and a memristive SoC and a comparison with conventional frame-based digital sensing system. Credit: Nature Sensors (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s44460-025-00013-z

The ubiquity of smart devices—not just phones and watches, but lights, refrigerators, doorbells and more, all constantly recording and transmitting data—is creating massive volumes of digital information that drain energy and slow data transmission speeds. With the rising use of artificial intelligence in industries ranging from health care and finance to transportation and manufacturing, addressing the issue is becoming more pressing.

A research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst aims to address the problem wi...

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