Thursday 18 April 2013

Australian scientists closer to building siliconbased quantum ...

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Summary A group of Australian scientists are close to implementing the basic building blocks required to create a quantum computer but by using silicon ...

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Dark Matter and a Definite Non-Definite - Office of Science - U.S. ...

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Office of Science supported experiment captures potential signals from potent particles.

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Quantum Loophole Closed, Universe Getting Stranger - iTechPost

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... 01:59 PM EDT. Tagsquantum physics, photons. Credit:Jacqueline Godany. We all knew that quantum physics was, well, strange, and now scientists have come one step closer to confirming its strangeness. ... Einstein, who described the phenomenon as ...

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Quantum Computer Almost Here? Scientists Discover A New, Reliable Way To ...

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Quantum computers may be just around the corner thanks to the recent discovery by physicists at the University of New South Wales in Australia that a reliable reading can be drawn based on the rotations of the nucleus of a single atom positioned in a ...

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Chemists discover simpler method of making 'wonder material' - PhysOrg.com

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The discovery by chemistry professor Suning Wang and her team allows for the creation of a material with properties similar to graphene at a much lower cost. "Dr. Wang's elegant process creates a powerful tool to make graphene-based materials.

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NASA'S Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.

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Stephen Hawking at Caltech: Dark Matter the "Missing Link" in Cosmic Studies

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Physicists believe dark matter is why it appears the universe is continuing to expand, instead of being pulled back together by its own gravity. ... During his talk, Hawking recounted his decades-long career in science, his successes as well as ...

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Physicists are human too

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Not so fast. At the start of this month, a blog from the Great Temple of the particle hunting profession at CERN, near Geneva, offered a captive boson of the Higgs genus to each of the first 10 readers to e-mail in a request. Simultaneously, across the ...

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'Inspirational' Laura makes trip to CERN collider

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As part of her prize for being the Most Inspirational Technician, presented by STEMNET, which aims to create opportunities for young people in science, technology, engineering and maths, she travelled to the famous Large Hadron Collider at CERN, ...

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The Voice 's Will.i.am heading back to school to study quantum physics

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The Voice judge, who is already director of creative innovation at Intel in his spare time, said: 'I'm fascinated with quantum physics. That's the reason why I'm going back to school this September to learn computer science.' The Scream & Shout singer ...

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Graphene Live: Billion dollar material has “zero market”

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Graphene's ability to penetrate multiple markets and command prices of over a billion dollars for small quantities are purely conceptual credentials, given that the material has yet to define a market. This was the message from graphene companies ...

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Chemists discover simpler method of making 'wonder material' - PhysOrg.com

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(Phys.org) —Researchers at Queen's University have discovered a cheaper method for making a substance similar to graphene, a wonder material discovered in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms, arranged in a lattice pattern, with a wide ...

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Team demonstrates quantum dots that assemble themselves

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Quantum dots are tiny crystals of semiconductor a few billionths of a meter in diameter At that size they exhibit beneficial behaviors of quantum physics ...

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BBC News Dark matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues

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By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter BBC News Denver Colorado ... Though it is believed to make up a quarter of our Universe dark matter true to ...

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Manchester leads the way in graphene membrane research

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University of Manchester graphene researchers have been awarded a £3.5m funding boost that could bring desalination plants, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...

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Elusive dark matter found at last?

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Scientists may have finally detected concrete signs of the long-sought-after "dark matter" —thought to make up at least one-fourth of the universe— after an international collaboration claimed to observe a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP ...

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Asteroid Mining Company Will be Supported by Engineering Giant Bechtel

The company will conduct low-cost robotic space exploration beginning with the Arkyd-100 Series of space telescope missions that will identify the most commercially viable near-Earth asteroids. These initial missions will assist the company in enabling ...

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Bechtel to Invest in Robotic Space Mining Company

Bechtel has joined a group of investors working with Planetary Resources to develop robotic exploration technologies intended to mine asteroids for precious materials. Planetary Resources plans to initially use its Arkyd-100 space telescope missions to ...

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Whether its pre-orbital, orbital, balloon-based flight or a good old-fashioned rocket you're looking for, options for space tourism are increasing. Even sub-orbital hotels are on the way. Jumping on this space bandwagon is deodorant company Lynx, which ...

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Rob Bell on quantum physics - Philosophy and Life - Mark Vernon

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I spoke with Rob Bell yesterday, before his gig at Union Chapel, London. I asked him about his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God.

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vector representation of wavefunction in quantum mechanics ...

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I am new to quantum mechanics, and I just studied some parts of "wave mechanics" version of quantum mechanics. But I heard that wavefunction can be ...

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Australian scientists closer to building silicon-based quantum computer

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If the research results in a functional quantum computer being built, such applications could include significant benefits to finance and healthcare industries as database searches, financial simulations, and the atomic modelling of biological systems ...

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Bechtel to Invest in Robotic Space Mining Company | ExecutiveBiz

Bechtel to Invest in Robotic Space Mining Company. Published by Ross Wilkers on April 17, 2013 | 0 Comment · BechtelLogo Bechtel has joined a group of ...

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Bechtel Joins Planetary Resources In Space Mining Effort ... - redOrbit

The visionary company Planetary Resources, Inc. recently announced that Bechtel, one of the most respected engineering, project management, and ...

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Graphene Information: History, Discovery, Research, Properties and Applications .

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A Hint of Dark Matter Lies Deep Underground in Minnesota

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With the dark stuff, we have multiple methods of detection taking place at different sorts of detectors all over the world—and in space—all going after one of the biggest mysteries in science, a theoretical "something" that doesn't fit into current ...

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Search for mysterious dark matter finds hint of key particle ...

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Detectors being fabricated at Texas A&M University, like this one, are powering the international Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment.

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A THIRD NEW SCIENCE.Calling Dark Matter's Astronomical Bluff by ...

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Matthew Cobb, Discorsi Scientific is raising funds for A THIRD NEW SCIENCE. Calling Dark Matter's Astronomical Bluff on Kickstarter! A BOOK, TREATISE, AND ...

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