California's native salmon struggling in fifth year of drought
California's iconic native salmon are struggling amid five years of drought.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2016
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Counting down to the new ampere
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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Molecular 'sheep' could open a scientific gateway
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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Record-breaking logic gate 'another important milestone' on road to quantum computers
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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Video show humpbacks feeding against San Francisco skyline
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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Computing study refutes famous claim that 'information is physical'
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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Quantum processor for single photons
"Nothing is impossible!" In line with this motto, physicists from the Quantum Dynamics Division of Professor Gerhard Rempe (director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) managed to realise a quantum logic gate in ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 7, 2016
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Why megaprojects often have megapitfalls
While the new Bay Bridge is finally functional, it stands more as a symbol of dysfunction than anything else. From the start it seemed born under a bad sign, down since it began to crawl—like, if it wasn't for bad luck, ...
Engineering
Jun 27, 2016
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Genetic algorithms can improve quantum simulations
(Phys.org)—Inspired by natural selection and the concept of "survival of the fittest," genetic algorithms are flexible optimization techniques that can find the best solution to a problem by repeatedly selecting for and ...
Google combines two main quantum computing ideas in one computer
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Google, the University of the Basque Country, the University of California and IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science has devised a means for combining the two leading ideas for ...
