Monday 16 September 2013

On the road to fault-tolerant quantum computing: High temperature superconductivity in a toplogical insulator

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Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times faster than today's most powerful supercomputers. Other types of problems that quantum computing could tackle would not even be feasible with today's fastest machines. The key word is "reliable." If the enormous potential of quantum computing is to be fully realized, scientists must learn to create "fault-tolerant" quantum computers. A small but important step toward this goal has been achieved by an international collaboration of researchers from China's Tsinghua University and the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).



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Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material

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A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries. This approach combines top-down advanced ink-jet printing technology with a bottom-up approach that involves self-assembling block copolymers, a type of material that can spontaneously form ultrafine structures.



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copernicus quote print

Here's a great poster featuring a beautiful image from deep space

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Tadpole Nebula Auriga Constellation Wall Stickers

Here's a great wall decal featuring a beautiful image from deep space

what do you think of this one? I bumped into it and thought it was cool. By HightonRidley,
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome outer space picture featuring the Tadpole Nebula, a star forming hub located about 12000 light years away in the Auriga constellation.
This nebula is brimming with new-born stars, many as young as only a million years of age. It's called the Tadpole nebula because the masses of hot, young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and130, the yellow forms that seem to be swimming away from the three red stars close to the centre of the picture.

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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

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Space weather may be to blame for some satellite failures

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A new study finds that high-energy electrons in space may be to blame for some satellite failures.

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NGC-3372 "Mystic Mountain" iPad Case

Here's a great iPad case from Zazzle featuring a Hubble-related design. Maybe you'd like to see your name on it? Click to personalize and see what it's like!

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This is an awe inspiring Hubble Space Telescope image of a section of the the Carina Nebula (NGC-3372) known as the "mystic mountain".

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Graphene photodetector integrated into computer chip

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Today, most information is transmitted by light – for example in optical fibers. Computer chips, however, work electronically. Somewhere between the optical data highway and the electronic chips, photons have to be converted into electrons using light-detectors. Scientists have now managed to combine a graphene photodetector with a standard silicon chip. It can transform light of all important frequencies used in telecommunications into electrical signals.

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Snake robot on Mars?

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The ESA wants its operations on other planets to have greater mobility and manoeuvrability. Researchers are looking into whether snake robots could be the answer.

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Magnetic jet shows how stars begin their final transformation

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Astronomers have for the first time found a jet of high-energy particles emanating from a dying star. The discovery is a crucial step in explaining how some of the most beautiful objects in space are formed – and what happens when stars like the sun reach the end of their lives.

via Science Daily

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Win tickets for two concerts at CERN



Alan Parsons - pictured here on a visit to CERN in August 2011 - will be performing at "Bosons and more" on 30 September (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)



On 30 September, CERN is organizing a "Bosons & More” party to celebrate the performance and the discoveries of the Large Hadron Collider. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande which be performing with a 120-strong choir at the party, as will the Alan Parsons Live Project. The evening is primarily for CERN personnel and users, but 500 places will be allocated to members of the public through a lottery.

Apply for tickets to "Bosons and more"




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Photonics: Graphene boosts on-chip light detectors

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The fabrication of high-performance light detectors—important for computers and mobile devices—using graphene integrated onto a chip is reported in three independent studies published online this week in Nature Photonics.



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Magnetic field may shape 'blooming' star

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(Phys.org) —An old star, IRAS 15445-5449, has begun to push out a jet of charged particles that glow with radio waves.



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Crab Pulsar Time Lapse - Neutron Star Round Stickers

Here's a great sheet of stickers featuring a beautiful image from deep space


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Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan.

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Image credit: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble Telescope iPad Mini Cover

Here's a great iPad case from Zazzle featuring a Hubble-related design. Maybe you'd like to see your name on it? Click to personalize and see what it's like!

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