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Quantum Error Correction: Time to Make It Work

IEEE Spectrum   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

Dates chiseled into an ancient tombstone have more in common with the data in your phone or laptop than you may realize. They both involve conventional, classical information, carried by hardware that is relatively immune to errors. The situation ...

Jun 26, 2022

"Viritech launches graphene-enhanced "hypercar"

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Last year's announcement about a British engineering company called Viritech that is working on an ambitious hydrogen-powered hypercar was recently followed by an update on that same company, that unveiled its 745kW hydrogen-powered hypercar,...

Jun 26, 2022

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: New technology helps reveal inner workings of human genome

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Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center researchers, in collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, have developed a new method to assess on a large scale the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, or how the genome folds....

Jun 25, 2022

"Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Boron nitride nanotube fibers get real: Rice lab creates first heat-tolerant, stable fibers from wet-spinning process"

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Boron nitride nanotubes used to be hard to process, according to Rice University researchers. Not anymore.

Jun 25, 2022

Researchers develop method to measure the migration of carbon atoms on the surface of graphene

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Researchers at the University of Vienna have measured the migration of carbon atoms on the surface of graphene for the first time. Although the atoms move too quickly to be directly observed with an electron microscope, their effect on the stabili...

Jun 25, 2022

MIT Develops Nanoparticles That Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier To Treat Cancer Tumors

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Tested using a new brain tissue model, the tiny particles may be able to deliver chemotherapy drugs for glioblastoma, a fast-growing and aggressive type of cancer.

Jun 24, 2022

Biodegradable nanomaterials can take images and deliver medicine to combat peripheral arterial disease

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A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineer is leading a project that will develop biodegradable nanomaterials that will take pictures and deliver medicine to combat peripheral arterial disease (PAD).

Jun 24, 2022

The Beating Heart of the World’s First Exascale Supercomputer

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The world’s latest fastest supercomputer, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Lab, in Tennessee, is so powerful that it operates faster than the next seven best supercomputers combined and more than twice as well as the No. 2 machine. Frontier is not o...

Jun 24, 2022

Microscopy technique enables 3D super-resolution nanometer-scale imaging

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Over the last two decades, microscopy has seen unprecedented advances in speed and resolution. However, cellular structures are essentially three-dimensional, and conventional super-resolution techniques often lack the necessary resolution in all ...

Jun 24, 2022

Topology and machine learning reveal hidden relationship in amorphous silicon

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Theoretical scientists have used topological mathematics and machine learning to identify a hidden relationship between nano-scale structures and thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon, a glassy form of the material with no repeating crystallin...

Jun 24, 2022

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