At CES AMD has announced the 64 core AMD EPYC line, (3990X). It will have super-high GHz clocks, and only $4,000 a package pricing. Nextbigufuture reader and commenter Goayguy notes that combining the AMD super chip with 512 GB of RAM ($3,000, ECC...
Jan 8, 2020
IBM announced a new 28-qubit quantum system backend, Raleigh and achieved a system demonstrating Quantum Volume of 32. This is double the quantum volume of 16 of a prior IBM system. Quantum Volume (QV) is a hardware-agnostic metric that we defined...
Jan 8, 2020
New study reveals that cells can metabolize gold even though it is not essential for their function The post Gold nanoparticles inside cells are not inert, say researchers appeared first on Physics World.
Jan 8, 2020
Sodium chloride nanoparticles - more commonly known as salt - are toxic to cancer cells and offer the potential for therapies that have fewer negative side effects than current treatments.
Jan 8, 2020
Medical researchers report that a type of biodegradable, lab-engineered nanoparticle they fashioned can successfully deliver a 'suicide gene' to pediatric brain tumor cells implanted in the brains of mice.
Jan 8, 2020
Researchers observed the ultrafast reaction of nanodroplets of helium after excitation with extreme ultraviolet radiation (XUV) using a free-electron laser in real time.
Jan 8, 2020
Researchers investigate ultrafast reaction of superfluid helium triggered by extreme ultraviolet laser pulses.
Jan 8, 2020
The Physics World team rings in the new year by trying out headphones that exploit the mechanical properties of the two-dimensional carbon “wonder material” The post Putting graphene headphones to the test appeared first on Physics World.
Jan 8, 2020
During storms in the southwestern U.S., some rattlesnakes drink rain droplets from scales on their backs. This unusual behavior could help them survive in a desert environment with infrequent rain. Now, researchers have figured out how the nanotex...
Jan 8, 2020
Researchers from the University of Würzburg have developed an electrically driven nanoscale antenna that generates directed infrared light. The technology could be used to exchange data between different processor cores with little loss and at the...
Jan 8, 2020
