Friday 7 June 2013

What is a Quantum Computer? | University of Oxford Podcasts ...

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How does a quantum computer work? Why is a quantum computer so much better than a traditional computer? How do we actually try to build a quantum ...

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Quantum mechanics in biological systems (I): Introduction | Mapping ...

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Biology Quantum physics Science · No Comments. Quantum mechanics, a term continously repeated during the last twenty ... To rid out of such a fraud, the best way is to know what quantum mechanics is ... Is D-Wave a Quantum Computer?

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Quantum Materials' Tetrapod Quantum Dots Break Kasha's Rule

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Quantum Materials' New San Marcos, Texas Lab's Tetrapod Quantum Dots Break ... they behave according to the rules of quantum physics, which describe the ...

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This Contact Lens Computer Is Like Google Glass, Without the Glasses

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Collaborating with Sung-Woo Nam of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Park found that sandwiching silver nanowires between sheets of graphene yielded a composite with much lower electrical resistance than either material alone. The ...

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A Racquet Made With The World's Strongest Material

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So they looked to graphene, the world's strongest material by weight. By incorporating a small amount of graphene into the middle of the frame, designers improved its strength dramatically. The result is the YouTek Graphene Speed Pro, one of the first ...

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Quantum Materials' Tetrapod Quantum Dots Break Kasha's Rule

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As a materials subset, quantum dots are characterized by synthetic nanomaterials particles fabricated to the smallest of dimensions from only a few atoms and upwards. At these tiny dimensions, they behave according to the rules of quantum physics ...

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NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments

NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft.

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Graphene Keeps Title of World's Strongest Material, Even With CVD ...

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Researchers from Columbia Engineering in New York have disproved claims that graphene loses its strength when fabricated on a large scale.

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Contact lens display research tips super-discrete Glass wearable future

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The project – to develop a transparent, flexible display using graphene-metal nanowire hybrid structures to construct stretchable electrodes – published in Nano Letters uses a custom material to mount an LED onto a standard soft contact lens, while ...

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Graphene Nanoplatelets Superior to Platinum for Fuel Cell Catalysts

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This new graphene-based material seems well placed to fix all of the issues with previous electrocatalyst materials which have been hampering the commercialization of fuel cells. Prof. Liming Dai from Case Western Reserve University comments: ...

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Using quantum mechanics to detect bombs - Io9

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How do you harmlessly reveal bombs that can be triggered by a single photon? With the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester. It's a hypothetical tester meant to test ...

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Justin Bieber Space Concert Plans Get a Boost

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Bieber is set for a flight on Richard Branson's proposed Virgin Galactic service to outer space. The space tourism venture would jet him into space. You can image how much it takes to confirm a place in one of the first Galactic flights. It of course ...

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Bieber signs on for space tourism

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It's Justin Bieber's final frontier and he's planning to boldly go where no teen heartthrob has gone before. Virgin Galactic - Sir Richard Branson's space flight company - said Thursday the 19-year-old singer has signed up to take a space flight. The ...

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Science Pub RVA: Mining for Dark Matter | WCVE

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Dark matter makes up about 80% of all the mass in the Universe, but what exactly is it? Join Physicist and Science writer Matthew Francis at Science Pub RVA ...

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NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms and Climate Mix

NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate.

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Massachusetts Students Speak With Space Station Astronauts

Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano, and Karen Nyberg will speak from the International Space Station to students at Douglas Public Schools in Massachusetts at 11:35 a.m. EDT, Monday, June 10.

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NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rover's launch is next month.

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Quantum mechanics in Relationship

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What if we took quantum mechanics and used it as a lens through which to look at relationship? How would ... We have been experiencing Newtonian laws, according to quantum mechanics, because we have observed and thus created them as such. In other ...

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Justin Bieber to Be Launched Into Space

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No, not because the lyrics of “Baby” were causing annoyance, but because getting celebrities to book rides into suborbital space should boost awareness of space travel and increase investment in the burgeoning space tourism industry. Well, that's the ...

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Can science and philosophy mix constructively?

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Because of the uncertainty principle, and other principles like it, quantum mechanics started to develop into a set of theories that could be tested against observations, and that, to physicists, left very little to thought experiments. Put another way ...

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