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• The birth of quantum holography: Making holograms of single light particles!
• Researchers use acoustic voxels to embed sound with data
• Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom
• Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body
• Tiny transformers: Chemists create microscopic and malleable building blocks
• 'Smart' thread collects diagnostic data when sutured into tissue

The birth of quantum holography: Making holograms of single light particles! Posted: 18 Jul 2016 10:32 AM PDT Until quite recently, creating a hologram of a single photon was believed to be impossible due to fundamental laws of physics. However, scientists have now successfully applied concepts of classical holography to the world of quantum phenomena. A new measurement technique has enabled them to register the first ever hologram of a single light particle, thereby shedding new light on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Researchers use acoustic voxels to embed sound with data Posted: 18 Jul 2016 10:32 AM PDT Researchers have developed a method to control sound waves, using a computational approach to inversely design acoustic filters that fit within an arbitrary 3-D shape while achieving target sound filtering properties. They designed acoustic voxels, small, hollow, cube-shaped chambers through which sound enters and exits, as a modular system. Like LEGOs, the voxels can be connected to form a complex structure and can modify the structure's acoustic filtering property.

Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom Posted: 18 Jul 2016 10:30 AM PDT Every day, modern society creates more than a billion gigabytes of new data. To store all this data, it is increasingly important that each single bit occupies as little space as possible. A team of scientists managed to bring this reduction to the ultimate limit: they built a memory of 1 kilobyte (8,000 bits), where each bit is represented by the position of one single chlorine atom.

Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body Posted: 18 Jul 2016 08:16 AM PDT Researchers have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build 'biohybrid' robots to manage different tasks than an animal or purely humanmade robot could.

Tiny transformers: Chemists create microscopic and malleable building blocks Posted: 18 Jul 2016 06:31 AM PDT Taking a page from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels,' a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials.

'Smart' thread collects diagnostic data when sutured into tissue Posted: 18 Jul 2016 06:31 AM PDT Researchers, for the first time, have integrated nano-scale sensors, electronics and microfluidics into threads -- ranging from simple cotton to sophisticated synthetics -- that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic data wirelessly.

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