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47Google’s Quantum A.I. Lab Team publishes video introducing D-Wave NASA partnership, dozen machines now in use
In partnership with NASA, [Google] announced the Quantum A.I. Lab, a place where researchers from around the world can experiment with the incredible powers and possibilities of quantum computing.
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46Université de Montréal team explores anticounterfeiting using CNT to encapsulate nanotags as optical fingerprint
Dye-coloured nanoparticles, or nanotags, can be added to objects in varnishes or inks. A scanner is then used to detect them and determine their vibrational spectrum, like fingerprints.
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43Why Can’t Einstein and Quantum Mechanics Get Along? A comparison between GR & QM
Despite our successes at describing the inner workings of the universe (Higgs, anyone?), there are still some gaping holes in our knowledge. Where's our Grand Unified Theory or our Theory of Everything? And why is Einstein's General Relativity still at odds with Quantum Mechanics? Why should we want to unify them anyway?
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42Hamburg team first to control skyrmion particles, shrinking bit storage gap by 75% and 100K less power vs magnetic
Physicists at the University of Hamburg managed for the first time to individually write and delete single skyrmions, a knot-like magnetic entity. Such vortex-shaped magnetic structures exhibit unique properties which make them promising candidates for future data storage devices. Skyrmions have been in the focus of active research for the last years; however, up to now these states have been merely investigated, a controlled manipulation has not been achieved.
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47New engineering strategy makes graphene based supercapacitors viable for widespread use
In a newly published study, engineers from Monash University detail a new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors, making them viable for widespread use in renewable energy storage, portable electronics and electric vehicles.
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49Canadian-based D-Wave count Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin among clients with first 512-qubit quantum computer
Google bought one. And so did Lockheed Martin, one of the planet's largest defense contractors. But we still can't agree on what it is. D-Wave, the company that built the thing, calls it the world's first quantum computer, a seminal creation that foretells the future of mathematical calculation.
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70A 3D Printed Spaceship On The Scale Of A Human Hair? Hello Nanoscribe 3D Printer
...the technique was able to produce a spaceship (from the Wing Commander line of video games) from a CAD file that measures 125µm x 81µm x 26.8µm (on the order of the width of a human hair) in less than 50 seconds.
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53Silicene discovered: Single-layer silicon that could beat graphene to market
Silicene is more exciting than graphene because, technically, it should be compatible with silicon-based electronics and the huge, existing semiconductor fabrication processes.
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56A nano ray of hope for breast cancer patients
The nanoparticles are packaged to imitate components of cells and nutrients so that the cancer cells are lulled into accepting the dosage.
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41Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics
UCLA researchers demonstrate high-performance graphene-based electrochemical capacitors that maintain excellent electrochemical attributes under high mechanical stress.
