A DARPA program is claiming a major breakthrough in quantum computing. The Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program has created the world's first quantum circuit with logical quantum bits (qubits)
Dec 12, 2023
A team of experts has developed a type of nanomaterial which can kill both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Find out more about it in this article.
Dec 12, 2023
When you look up at the sky and see clouds of wondrous shapes, or struggle to peer through dense, hazy fog, you're seeing the results of 'Mie scattering', which is what happens with light interacts with particles of a certain size. ...
Dec 12, 2023
Neuromorphic computing has so far tried to mimic the synapses between neurons in the brain. But a new approach instead aims to act like dendrites, the spindly structures that branch out from the nucleus of a neuron like the roots of a tree. Dendri...
Dec 11, 2023
In work that could lead to more robust quantum computing, Princeton researchers have succeeded in forcing molecules into quantum entanglement.
Dec 11, 2023
Quantum computers leverage some aspects of quantum physics to make computers. They can create huge amounts of quantum states but it is also difficult to make the actual algorithms to use the abundant states. A classical (regular) computer would ne...
Dec 11, 2023
Scientists have developed a new means of manipulating Mie scattering from nanostructures.
Dec 11, 2023
In mice and human cell cultures, researchers showed that novel nanoparticles can deliver a potential therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer's disease.
Dec 11, 2023
Study uncovers new ways to make ordered wafer-scale chiral carbon nanotube architectures.
Dec 11, 2023
The increasing use of carbon nanotubes - and a proposal in the European Union to ban the entire class of materials - highlights the need for an updated and standardized approach to assess human and environmental impacts of CNTs and products that c...
Dec 11, 2023