Researchers have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory that autonomously discovers high-performance quantum dots – semiconductor nanoparticles critical for next-generation displays, solar cells, LEDs and quantum-engineering technologies. Combining advanced robotics with artificial intelligence, Rainbow can conduct and analyze up to 1,000 experiments per day without human intervention, dramatically accelerating the pace of materials discovery.

In a new paper in Science, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, Boise State University in Idaho, and East Anglia University in England Worldwide, report that land area consumed by wildfires decreased by 26 percent from 2002 to 2021. During the same time, human exposure to blazes jumped by 40 percent, with Africa accounting for most of it.

In a new study, researchers from UC San Diego designed experiments to show how disordered energy can limit the energy transfer pathway in light-matter interactions, and further demonstrated a strategy to overcome this limitation.In a new study, researchers from UC San Diego designed experiments to show how disordered energy can limit the energy transfer pathway in light-matter interactions, and further demonstrated a strategy to overcome this limitation.