Quantum computing is about to get more complex. Researchers have evidence that large molecules made of nickel and chromium can store and process information in the same way bytes do for digital computers. The researchers ...
Materials Science
Nov 10, 2016
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Ronald De Feo has watched robots take factory jobs for years. Now he sees them threatening a new class of worker: People who drive for a living.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 3, 2016
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At the Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, imec, the world-leading research and innovation center in nano-electronics and digital technologies, presented breakthrough results supporting the building of ...
Nanophysics
Oct 31, 2016
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For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. They knew that the laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer threshold on the size of transistor ...
Nanophysics
Oct 6, 2016
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California's iconic native salmon are struggling amid five years of drought.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2016
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After it's all over, your lights will be just as bright, and your refrigerator just as cold. But very soon the ampere—the SI base unit of electrical current—will take on an entirely new identity, and NIST scientists are ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 29, 2016
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University of Queensland researchers have taken a big step toward understanding the movement of molecules in the human body.
Biochemistry
Aug 25, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer.
Quantum Physics
Aug 5, 2016
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A kayaker captured video of humpback whales feasting on fish in a bay with the San Francisco skyline as a backdrop.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2016
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A quote often attributed to Einstein reads: "Everybody knows that some things are simply impossible until somebody who doesn't know that makes them possible."
Quantum Physics
Jul 11, 2016
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