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New Research on Teleportation Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a paper published in Nature Communications (and one to appear in Physical Review X), researchers from the

Jun 23, 2020

Study Demonstrate Pathway of Uptake, Transport of Nanoplastics in Plant Root

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

As concern grows among environmentalists and consumers about micro- and nanoplastics in the oceans and in seafood, they are increasingly studied in marine environments, say Baoshan Xing at the...

Jun 23, 2020

New Light-Powered Nanocatalyst can Break Chemical Bonds in Fluorocarbons

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Rice University engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental...

Jun 23, 2020

Twisted WSe2 as a highly tunable platform for the study of exotic phenomena

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers report that the twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide WSe2 enables the realization of exotic correlated phenomena, including high-Tc superconductivity and correlated insulators, in a controlled manner and without the geometri...

Jun 23, 2020

'Unboil an egg' machine creates improved bacteria detector

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Traditional fluorescent dyes to examine bacteria viability are toxic and suffer poor photostability - but using the Vortex Fluidic Device has enabled the preparation of a new generation of aggregation-induced emission dye luminogens using graphene...

Jun 23, 2020

Speeding-Up Quantum Computing Using Giant Atomic Ions – 100 Million Times Larger Than Normal Atoms

SciTechDaily   -   Scientific News Websites

Trapped Rydberg ions can be the next step towards scaling up quantum computers to sizes where they can be practically usable, a new study in... The post Speeding-Up Quantum Computing Using Giant Atomic Ions – 100 Million Times Larger Than Normal ...

Jun 22, 2020

NVIDIA Selene Supercomputer Delivers 1 exaFLOPs for AI and 27 petaFLOPs Regular Computing | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

NVIDIA made the supercomputing cluster called Selene in less than a month. The cluster was built in the month since the announcement of Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture and A100 artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators. Selene provides up to 1 ex...

Jun 22, 2020

Researchers make next-generation, high-toughness battery component

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

By combining a ceramic material with graphene, Brown University engineers have made what they say is the toughest

Jun 22, 2020

Quantum Volume is Not Over 9000 Yet | NextBigFuture.com

NextBigFuture   -   Scientific News Websites

Honeywell has released access to its trapped ion quantum computer with a quantum volume of 64. The previous best quantum computers were IBM and Google at a quantum volume of 32. Honeywell claims to have the most powerful quantum computer now and t...

Jun 22, 2020

Fluorocarbon bonds are no match for light-powered nanocatalyst: Lab unveils catalyst that can break problematic C-F bonds

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants.

Jun 22, 2020

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