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Silk hard drive stores optical data – Physics World

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Device manufactured using near-field nanolithography is the first functional hard drive made from silk proteins The post Silk hard drive stores optical data appeared first on Physics World.

Sep 9, 2020

A Janus emitter for passive heat release from enclosures

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It is presently challenging to efficiently cool enclosed spaces such as stationary automobiles that trap heat via the greenhouse effect. In a new report in Science Advances, Se-Yeon Heo and a team of scientists in materials science, engineering an...

Sep 9, 2020

Oxford Instruments Partners With The £10 Million Consortium, To Launch The First Commercial Quantum Computer In UK

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Oxford Instruments NanoScience announced today it will partner with a £10 million consortium to accelerate the commercialisation of quantum computing in the UK, led by Rigetti Computing. The...

Sep 9, 2020

New method prevents quantum computers from crashing: Loss of individual qubits doesn't disrupt the quantum computer anymore

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Quantum information is fragile, which is why quantum computers must be able to correct errors. But what if whole qubits are lost? Researchers are now presenting a method that allows quantum computers to keep going even if they lose some qubits alo...

Sep 9, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Boundaries no barrier for thermoelectricity: Rice researchers find potentially useful electrical phenomenon in gold nanowires

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Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, theres at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold.

Sep 9, 2020

Chemists develop a new type of one-molecule thick water-repellent film

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Scientists have created a new type of two-dimensional nanofilm from an organic material called calixarene. The invention can be used as a protective coating in electronics and as a part of molecular filters.

Sep 9, 2020

Technique prevents errors in quantum computers

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Even quantum computers make mistakes. Their computing ability is extraordinary, exceeding that of classical computers by far. This is because circuits in quantum computers are based on qubits that can represent not only zeroes or ones, but also su...

Sep 9, 2020

Sampling the gut microbiome with an ingestible pill

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Gut microbes affect human health, but there is still much to learn, in part because they're not easy to collect. But researchers now report in ACS Nano that they have developed an ingestible capsule that in rat studies captured bacteria and o...

Sep 9, 2020

Study Finds Potentially Useful Electrical Phenomenon in Gold Nanowires

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Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there's at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold. You just need a way to view these electron games. Using a novel optical detection...

Sep 9, 2020

New Nano System Enhances the Effectiveness of Melanoma Treatment

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Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro of TAU's Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Sackler School of Medicine, have developed an innovative...

Sep 9, 2020

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