Tying down electrons with nanoribbons

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Nanoribbons are promising topological materials displaying novel electronic properties. Chemists and physicists have found a way to join two different types of nanoribbon to create a topological insulator that confines single electrons to the junction between them. Alternating nanoribbon types create a chain of interacting electrons that act as metals, insulators or interacting spins -- qubits for a quantum computer -- depending on separation. This opens the door to designer materials with unique quantum properties.
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Pence Advances Plan to Create a Space Force

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Once reluctant, Defense Secretary Mattis is now on board with the plan.
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Ultrahot planets have starlike atmospheres

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An unusual kind of star-planet hybrid atmosphere is emerging from studies of ultrahot planets orbiting close to other stars.
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Quantum chains in graphene nanoribbons

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Researchers have achieved a breakthrough that could in future be used for precise nanotransistors or -- in the distant future -- possibly even quantum computers, as the team reports.
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Spinning heat shield for future spacecraft

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A newly developed prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars.
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Satellite measurements of the Earth's magnetosphere promise better space weather forecasts

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A Japan-based research team led by Kanazawa University equipped the Arase satellite with sensors to study the convoluted interactions between high-energy particles in the inner magnetosphere and the Earth's electric and magnetic field. They have collected their first set of data from the satellite and from ground-based sensors, which they will soon analyze. Their approach promises to provide better predictions of harmful bursts of high-energy particles from the magnetosphere.
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