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Jul 29, 2016

The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality

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Nice history.


(via PBS Space Time) The double slit experiment radically changed the way we understand reality. Find out what the ramifications of this experiment were and how we can use it to better comprehend our universe.

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Jul 29, 2016

Scientia Professor Michelle Yvonne Simmons

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Professor Michelle Simmons of the Univ. of Sydney is an early pioneer of QC and will go down in history as the 1st Mother of Quantum Computing and a person that all (women and men) can look up to and be a true role model for many in tech and science. I hope to continue to make young girls and women everywhere to learn about her and hopefully they (like me) will consider her a role model to follow.


Fields of research: Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter Physics Campus: Kensington Tags: Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences, Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences.

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Jul 29, 2016

PV Nano Cell’s nanometric silver conductive ink enables non-contact digital inkjet printing

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

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PV Nano Cell has commercially developed ‘Sicrys’, a single-crystal, nanometric silver conductive ink delivering enhanced performance for digital conductive printing in mass production applications. The inks are also available in copper-based form, delivering all of the product’s properties and advantages with improved cost efficiency.

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Jul 28, 2016

Levitating Wireless Phone Charger

Posted by in category: mobile phones

This might be the coolest phone charger ever.

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Jul 28, 2016

This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Considering it uses 95% less water than regular farms, could vertical farming be the future of agriculture?

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Jul 28, 2016

Will You Ever Love a Robot?

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

“In a sense, we’re all meat robots.” Chief Scientist at Hanson Robotics blurs the lines between biological and engineered robotics in this short yet fascinating excerpt.

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Jul 28, 2016

Dirty to drinkable: Novel hybrid nanomaterials quickly transform water

Posted by in categories: engineering, nanotechnology

Now, a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has found a way to use graphene oxide sheets to transform dirty water into drinking water, and it could be a global game-changer.

“We hope that for countries where there is ample sunlight, such as India, you’ll be able to take some dirty water, evaporate it using our material, and collect fresh water,” said Srikanth Singamaneni, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

The new approach combines bacteria-produced cellulose and graphene oxide to form a bi-layered biofoam. A paper detailing the research is available online in Advanced Materials.

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Jul 28, 2016

A new Type of Quantum Bit

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

In approaches using conventional semiconductor materials, scientists typically created qubits in the form of individual electrons. However, this caused dephesing, and the information carriers were difficult to program and read. Now, researchers from the University of Basel, Ruhr University Bochum, and the Universite de Lyon have overcome this problem by using holes — instead of electrons — to create qubits.

A new type of quantum bit | university of basel.

A new Type of Quantum Bit | University of Basel

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Jul 28, 2016

Vortex laser offers hope for Moore’s Law

Posted by in category: computing

Like a whirlpool, a new light-based communication tool carries data in a swift, circular motion.

Described in a study published today (July 28, 2016) by the journal Science, the optics advancement could become a central component of next generation computers designed to handle society’s growing demand for information sharing.

It may also be a salve to those fretting over the predicted end of Moore’s Law, the idea that researchers will find new ways to continue making computers smaller, faster and cheaper.

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Jul 28, 2016

Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift

Posted by in category: physics

An early sign that neutrinos behave differently than antineutrinos suggests an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics.

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