Kohava Mendelsohn

This story is part of our Top Tech 2025 special report. Methane Measurements for the Masses All Illustrations: Greg Mably From high above us, satellites track devastating emissions of the greenhouse gases that will alter our climate. So far, their data has been private, shared only with companies or governments. MethaneSAT is changing that. Launched on 4 March 2024, it will pinpoint specific problem areas and track emissions of methane more broadly. Anyone will be

6 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. Eakarat Buanoi/iStock In 2024, technologies to combat climate change soared above the clouds in electricity-generating kites, traveled the oceans sequestering carbon, and permeated the earth to power agritech in a new way. If these don’t ring a bell, fret not! We’ve gathered our top 10 climate tech stories of the past year here for you to explore. Climate tech is a rapidly advancing

3 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. In an age where data is bought and sold as a commodity, true privacy is rare. But homomorphic encryption can protect your data completely, so no one, not even the servers used to process it, can read your information. Here’s how it works: A device encrypts data, sends it out for processing, computations are done on the encrypted data, and then the data

4 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. Lan Yin Lee/AMD When your car breaks down, you take it to the mechanic. When a computer chip fails, engineers go to the failure analysis team. It’s their job to diagnose what went wrong and work to make sure it doesn’t in the future. The International Symposium on the Physical and Failure analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA) is a yearly conference in Asia

23 Nov 2024 3 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. Photobot can find your best side. Samsung/IEEE Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will adjust its position to

3 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. MobiPrint can 3D print structures directly onto a wide variety of surfaces. Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then installing it on location can be tedious for multi-part projects. What if there was a way for your printer to print its creation exactly where you needed it? That’s the promise of MobiPrint,

6 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. Silicon carbide semiconductors, such as the ones in these integrated circuits developed by NASA, should better protect future spacecraft from failed transistors. Yesterday, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary mission. Clipper is now successfully on its multi-year journey to Europa, bristling with equipment to study the Jovian moon’s potential to support life—but

4 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial Intern at IEEE Spectrum. Researchers used the memristor to create a circuit that measures exposure to radiation. OM Kumar et al./IEEE Electron Device Letters This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. In space, high-energy gamma radiation can change the properties of semiconductors, altering how they work or rendering them completely unusable. Finding devices that can withstand radiation is

4 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial Intern at <i>IEEE Spectrum</i>. Getty Images Did that rock move, or is it a squirrel crossing the road? Tracking objects that look a lot like their surroundings is a big problem for many autonomous vision systems. AI algorithms can solve this camouflage problem, but they take time and computing power. A new camera designed by researchers in South Korea provides a faster solution. The camera takes inspiration