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Making Terahertz Waves Work on a Chip, Without the Bulk

May 4, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at MIT have built a small chip that can generate terahertz waves more effectively and more affordably than what’s currently out there. That’s huge, ‘cause terahertz waves sit between radio and infrared on the electromagnetic spectrum, so they can carry more data than radio waves and see through more materials than infrared light. This makes them a promising candidate for faster wireless communication, sharper medical imaging, better security scanners, and smarter environmental monitoring.

Smarter Connections: A Step Closer to Practical Quantum Machines

April 30, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Have you ever watched two kids on swings, tied together by a spring? When one swings, the other starts moving too. That’s how scientists often imagine the relationship between light and matter at the quantum level. They call this a coupling , a way for two systems to influence each other.

Smaller Than a Grain of Rice, This Pacemaker Runs on Light

April 23, 2025April 23, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Northwestern engineers have come up with something pretty wild, a pacemaker so small it can fit inside the tip of a syringe. Not only that, but it’s wireless, dissolves inside the body after doing its job, and can be injected without surgery.

Training an LLM is Like Growing a Fractal: The Power of Iterative Learning

March 30, 2025March 31, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

James Gleick, one of my favorite science writers, wrote this famous quote in his book Chaos: Making a New Science: “IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity”.’ Doesn’t it also reflect how LLMs work? How? Just like fractals, these models take patterns, layer them and build something infinitely complex from simple rules. It’s like staring into a never-ending web of words, where meaning keeps unfolding the deeper we go.

Cracking the Mystery of Strange Metals with Quantum Entanglement

March 29, 2025March 29, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Quantum criticality in metals is an exciting area of study where physics explores mysterious concepts. A new study in Nature Communications looks at a unique way to understand entanglement at a specific point called the Kondo destruction quantum critical point (QCP). Instead of using standard methods, the researchers focus on concepts like mutual information and quantum Fisher information (QFI) to explore how quantum connections change as they get closer to this transition.

ULVAC and IBM Quantum Team Up to Revolutionize Quantum Computing Cooling

March 25, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Quantum computing is one of the most promising technological frontiers, but it comes with a major challenge, which is, maintaining the extreme cold temperatures that is required for qubits to function. Today’s quantum computers rely on dilution refrigerators, complex and highly specialized cooling systems that keep qubits operating near absolute zero. However, these systems are expensive, tough to maintain and don’t scale easily.

QNodeOS: Making Quantum Network Development Accessible to All

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

For decades, quantum networks have always been looked as a research curiosity than a practical technology. I personally imagined it to be a field of entangled particles, stretching across galaxy and the quantum connections in the field space enables telepathic communication, this is how I concluded, quantum entanglement happens.

From Spice to Silicon: The AI and Biotech Dilemma

February 25, 2025March 31, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

I am a huge science fiction nerd and I see this genre as a window, a blueprint for the future. Since, it often imagines advanced tech, societal change, socio-economic possibilities, medicine, space exploration, even philosophy and ethics, before they become reality.

Unravelling Superionic Materials: A Breakthrough for Next-Gen Rechargeable Batteries

February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at Duke University have discovered the intricate molecular details of a material that might just be the key to next-generation rechargeable batteries. It’s called the superionic material. The compound displays both solid and liquid properties. How? It retains its solid structure, however, the ions within it move as freely as they would in a liquid.

The AI Agent Technology Stack: Unpacking the Layers

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

AI agents are assisting people in making smarter choices, these tools are also helping in making tasks easier and enabling more personalized experiences across various domains. Their integration with external tools and APIs allows for real-time data analysis and automation of complex workflows. All this is possible because of a structured tech stack that integrates various layers, working in sync. The technology stack is like an entire football team, where goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and strikers are the various layers, each with a unique function.

Is the AI Moat Gone? DeepSeek’s Low-Cost Model Challenges Tech Giants’ Dominance

January 31, 2025February 25, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

Disruption is the new normal! – This happens to be the current motif of the AI landscape. DeepSeek has posed some serious challenges to the conventional approach to AI model development. It has proved, at least looking at the current scenario, that there is no need for massive capital expenditures on training the LLMs. In fact, the advancement of AI isn’t just about the amount of data you put in, but how well you can prompt it! This reminds of a talk when asked where an Indian startup with limited…

Record Cold Quantum Refrigerator: A Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Stability

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

An interesting development around quantum computing has surfaced. We all know that these quantum systems require super cold temperature to operate at their optimal performance. Why? Well, the fundamental blocks of quantum computers, which are, the qubits cannot function in regular temperature. For reliable quantum computation, these quantum systems require extremely low temperatures as they are highly sensitive to their surroundings, in fact, even a tiny disturbance by weak electromagnetic interference can cause errors in their system.

WHaloCaMP Biosensor: Real-Time Insights into Animal Physiology

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024 Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at the Janelia group created an innovative way for engineered protein biosensors & bright, fluorescent Janelia Fluor (JF) dyes to work together. Aim of the new biosensor is to measure physiological signals in live animals. The revolutionary sensor, WHaloCaMP, can track multiple physiological signals in live animals, unlike its previous version. And when it comes to illumination, the detector can emit bright far-red light. This light can penetrate deeper into tissues than the other (existing) wavelengths.

Cloud Messaging Platforms: Market Growth, Tech Trends and Leading Players

September 19, 2024January 14, 2025 Pooja Kashyap

The trajectory of cloud-based messaging platforms is on an upward trend. As industries globally adopt advanced technologies, the demand for sophisticated applications is also increasing. As per Market Research Future, the Cloud Communication Platform market industry is projected to grow from USD 19.38 Billion in 2024 to USD 82.21 Billion by 2032, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.80% during the forecast period (2024 – 2032). While Mordor Intelligence estimates it to reach USD 40.13 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 18.44% during the forecast period…

High-Performance 2D Semiconductor Transistor Fabrication: h-BN Dielectrics and Metal Gate Tech

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Pooja Kashyap

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors hold enormous potential to transform the future of electronics. However, their full potential is hindered by a major challenge: interface defects that form between the semiconductors and insulating layers, which degrade overall performance.