Sunday 19 May 2013

Stacking experiment opens new prospects for graphene - eetindia.com

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Graphene is a carbon-based material whose structure is just one atom thick. It is believed to be a promising component for integrated circuits as it possesses ideal electronic properties. However, scientists have long struggled on how to integrate a ...

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How Space Tourism Could Help Save Planet Earth

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Seeing our fragile Earth hanging alone in the blackness of space tends to be a life-altering, or at least perspective-changing, experience. If more people around the world are treated to that unforgettable sight, humanity might handle the planet with a ...

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Google and NASA Snap Up Quantum Computer DWave Two Scientific American

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The DWave Two quantum computer has a 512qubit processorpictured that can do some ... recipes known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics ...

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Uncertainty fading from quantum computer?

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But some of the uncertainty about one quantum computer appears to be fading on the real world level with the purchase this week of a second "D-Wave Two" quantum computer, announced Thursday by a consortium of NASA, Google and the Universities ...

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AFP: Space tourism won't hurt environment: Branson - Google

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(AFP) – 1 day ago. SINGAPORE — British billionaire Richard Branson said Monday that rocket-powered space tourism flights by his firm Virgin Galactic would ...

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NASA facility will install a quantum-driven computer

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Like a theoretical quantum computer, the D-Wave Two will process in quantum bits or “qubits,” which are like a standard computer's bits of data but can exist in two states—i.e., on and off—simultaneously. The computer's operations will incorporate a ...

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NASA Pays $15 million for a Quantum Computer

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The idea of quantum physics was introduced by Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and many others. In our modern time, scientists improved it and proved that an object doesn't have to be massive in order to ...

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Google buys B.C. firm's quantum computer for NASA lab Technology ...

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A quantum computer made by Burnaby, B.C.-based D-Wave Systems has been ... or 0 qubits make use of quantum mechanics laws of physics that apply only to very ...

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Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap?

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And particle physics – or quantum mechanics, to give it its posh title – is weird to the power of n, where n is a very large integer. Consider some of the things that particle physicists believe. ... But while these disputes raged, a Canadian company ...

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RDFRS: NASA, Google buy quantum computer from B.C. firm

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A quantum computer has been purchased from Burnaby, B.C.-based ... qubits make use of quantum mechanics — laws of physics that apply only to very small ...

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