Using computer simulations built on reasonable assumptions and conducted under careful control, computational bioscientists can mimic real biological conditions. Starting with the original founding population…
View More Simulating Evolution to Understand a Hidden Genetic SwitchCategory: Technologies
Important Milestone in the Creation of a Quantum Computer That Uses Transistors As Qubits
One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been that the working devices that go into a quantum…
View More Important Milestone in the Creation of a Quantum Computer That Uses Transistors As QubitsTowards Exawatt-Class Lasers: New Concept for Next-Generation Ultra-Intense Lasers
Concept for Exawatt-class lasers. Credit: Osaka University Researchers from Osaka University propose a concept for next-generation ultra-intense lasers, possibly increasing the current record from 10…
View More Towards Exawatt-Class Lasers: New Concept for Next-Generation Ultra-Intense LasersNanodiamond Sensors Created That Can Act As Both Heat Sources and Thermometers
(a) Illustration of the structure of a nanodiamond quantum sensor coated with a pyrogenic polymer, and how it operates as a hybrid nanoheater/thermometer. (b) Electron…
View More Nanodiamond Sensors Created That Can Act As Both Heat Sources and ThermometersGroundbreaking New One-Step Process for Creating Self-Assembled Metamaterials
While studying a thin-film material called strontium stannate (SrSnO3), University of Minnesota researchers noticed the surprising formation of checkerboard patterns at the nano scale similar…
View More Groundbreaking New One-Step Process for Creating Self-Assembled MetamaterialsGiving Computers a Keen Sense of Smell – Researchers Create a Biohybrid Olfactory Sensor
Schematic diagrams showing the network of tubes and channels that make up the VOC sensor. Credit: © 2020 AAAS/Takeuchi et al. A keen sense of…
View More Giving Computers a Keen Sense of Smell – Researchers Create a Biohybrid Olfactory SensorUltrasound “Drills” and Nanodroplets and Prove Effective at Tackling Tough Blood Clots
A new technique, developed by researchers at NC State, UNC, and Michigan, uses an ultrasound “drill” to burst nanodroplets in and around hardened blood clots.…
View More Ultrasound “Drills” and Nanodroplets and Prove Effective at Tackling Tough Blood ClotsError Protected Quantum Bits Entangled: A Milestone in the Development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
Quantum particles lined up in a lattice form the basis for an error-tolerant quantum processor. Credit: Uni Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Even computers can miscalculate. Already small…
View More Error Protected Quantum Bits Entangled: A Milestone in the Development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum ComputersFirst Nanomaterial Developed That Demonstrates “Photon Avalanching” – Extreme Nonlinear Optical Behavior and Efficiency
An illustration of the chain-reaction process that underlies the photon avalanching mechanism Columbia Engineering researchers have realized in their nanoparticles. In this process, the absorption…
View More First Nanomaterial Developed That Demonstrates “Photon Avalanching” – Extreme Nonlinear Optical Behavior and EfficiencyLight-Based Processor Chips Advance Machine Learning
Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Together with an optical frequency comb, the waveguide crossbar array permits highly parallel…
View More Light-Based Processor Chips Advance Machine Learning