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482013-07-15Canadian-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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692013-06-19A 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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522013-06-13Silicene 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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552013-06-02A 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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402012-12-29Researchers 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.
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442012-08-26OSU's New Microbial Fuel Cell Can Generate 10-50 Times More Power From Wastewater
A team of engineers from Oregon State University has developed a breakthrough microbial fuel cell that is capable of generating 10 to 50 times more electricity from waste than other MFCs.
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512012-01-12IBM creates data storage at the atomic level
A new discovery by Big Blue researchers suggests that it's possible to store a bit of information in as little as 12 magnetic atoms. Today's disk drives require a million atoms to store a bit.
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442011-09-18Gamers succeed where scientists fail
Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game that allows players to collaborate and compete in predicting the structure of protein molecules.
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442011-07-05Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear
Renewable energy production has surpassed nuclear energy production in the U.S. according to the latest issue of Monthly Energy Review published by the Energy Information Administration. Production of alternative energy is also beginning to close in on domestic oil production.
