In a major step toward making a quantum computer using everyday materials, a team led by researchers at Princeton University has constructed a key piece of silicon hardware capable of controlling quantum behavior between ...
Quantum Physics
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When most people think of rare species, they think of endangered ones that humans have caused to be rare through habitat loss, poaching, climate change and other disturbances. But some species have always been rare—occurring ...
Ecology
Dec 6, 2017
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Researchers have published a paper that demonstrations the first laboratory experiment to use liquid marbles to create collision-based computation in research.
Condensed Matter
Nov 15, 2017
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Quantum computing could solve problems impossible for today's supercomputers. The challenge for this new form of computing is processing the quantum bits (qubits) that represent data. A qubit can be made by controlling the ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 15, 2017
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Vibrating mechanical switches that can be cascaded to perform complex computational operations could take computing significantly further than today's technologies. KAUST researchers have demonstrated an alternative technology ...
Engineering
Oct 3, 2017
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Last week, 5-km asteroid Florence paid Earth a visit—and, using the advanced features of Unistellar's eVscope, we were able to observe it from a location just outside of San Francisco. This, our first attempt to image an ...
Space Exploration
Sep 8, 2017
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Osaka University researchers use X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to resolve the assembly of the export gate apparatus in Salmonella. The new details of this nanomachine are expected to clarify how bacteria infect ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 9, 2017
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A beam of sunlight streams into your living room, illuminating a Milky Way of dust particles hanging in the air. Although the air looks thick, those visible dust particles are so big that they can't reach the smallest branches ...
Environment
Jul 19, 2017
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Tiny Japanese quail eggs are a small niche market in the United States, but they're a big business in Brazil where they are sold fresh in grocery stores in egg cartons that hold 30 of the small, speckled delicacies, and are ...
Ecology
Jul 5, 2017
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Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and arrive at an appropriate response.
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2017
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