Sandia National Laboratories physicist Susan Clark leads the team that built the Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed. The ion-based quantum computer was made for…
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New Ultrafast Control Scheme for Energy-Efficient Data Storage of the Future
Figure 1. A schematic illustration of the demonstrated ultrafast and energy efficient switching of ferromagnet driven by a single femtosecond laser pulse. The laser pulse…
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Pioneering Experiment Turns IBM’s Largest Quantum Computer Into a Quantum Material
University of Chicago scientists programmed an IBM quantum computer to become a type of material called an exciton condensate. Credit: IBM Pioneering experiment could help…
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New Plutonium Breakthrough: Measuring the Previously “Unmeasurable” Helps Distinguish Nuclear Power Pollution From Global Fallout
Researchers looking at miniscule levels of plutonium pollution in our soils have made a breakthrough that could help inform future ‘clean up’ operations on land…
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Engineers Creates New Ultralightweight, Crush-Resistant Tensegrity Metamaterials
Novel tensegrity metamaterials by UCI and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers employ isolated compressive loop elements that are exclusively connected through a continuous network of…
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Researchers Debunk Decade-Old Photonics Myth, Demonstrate Practical Metal Nanostructures
An artist’s view of a metasurface consisting of a rectangular array of rectangular gold nanostructures generating plasmonic surface lattice resonances. Credit: Yaryna Mamchur, co-author and…
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Columbia Engineers Use DNA Nanotechnology to Build Tough 3D Nanomaterials
Mineralization of 3D lattice formed by DNA tetrahedra (about 30 nm) and gold nanoparticle into all-inorganic 3D silica-Au replicas with preserved architecture. Credit: Oleg Gang/Columbia…
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Google Chrome’s new Live Caption feature will transcribe speech in videos
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain First introduced in 2019, Google Chrome’s Live Caption accessibility feature offers real-time captions for audio playing on both Pixel and non-Pixel…
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‘Among Us’ is adding a new Airship map on March 31—and it’s free
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Fans of “Among Us” will soon find a new location to root out impostors. A new, free map called Airship will…
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Unusual Material Features Spontaneous Superconducting Currents – Why It Superconducts at All Is Completely Unknown
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals,…
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