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Achieving quantum supremacy: UC Santa Barbara/Google researchers demonstrate the power of 53 entangled qubits

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Researchers have made good on their claim to quantum supremacy. Using 53 entangled quantum bits ('qubits'), their Sycamore computer has taken on -- and solved -- a problem considered intractable for classical computers.

Oct 23, 2019

Nanoscale deformation mechanics reveal mystery of nature's toughest material

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Nacre, the rainbow-sheened material that lines the insides of mussel and other mollusk shells, is known as nature's toughest material. Now, a team of researchers has revealed precisely how it works, in real time.

Oct 23, 2019

Creating a nanospace like no other: Scientists build a nanocage with antiaromatic walls

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Researchers have built a self-assembled nanocage with a very unusual nanospace: Its walls are made of antiaromatic molecules, which are generally considered too unstable to work with. By overturning assumptions about the limits of nano-chemical en...

Oct 23, 2019

It’s official: Google has achieved quantum supremacy

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Google has published details of its quantum computing breakthrough, following an earlier leak. Despite claims from rival IBM, it seems to be the real deal

Oct 23, 2019

It’s official: Google has achieved quantum supremacy

New Scientist   -   Scientific News Websites

Google has published details of its quantum computing breakthrough, following an earlier leak. Despite claims from rival IBM, it seems to be the real deal

Oct 23, 2019

Scientists build a nanocage with antiaromatic walls

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Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Copenhagen have built a self-assembled nanocage with a very unusual nanospace: Its walls are made of antiaromatic molecules, which are generally consi...

Oct 23, 2019

Monitoring the corrosion of bioresorbable magnesium

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Researchers have recently been able to monitor the corrosion of bioresorbable magnesium alloys at the nanoscale over a time scale of a few seconds to many hours. This is an important step towards accurately predicting how fast implants are resorbe...

Oct 23, 2019

Scientists close to integrating silicon electronics and spintronics

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Researchers have developed nanoheterostructures, which can be used as a source of spin-polarized electrons for the semiconductor silicon substrate.

Oct 23, 2019

Scientists close to integrating silicon electronics and spintronics

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Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) developed the nanoheterostructure consisted of a nanocrystal magnetite film (Fe3O4) covering a silicon substrate with an ...

Oct 23, 2019

Rethinking the science of plastic recycling

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New catalytic method with nanoparticles could mitigate global plastic pollution.

Oct 23, 2019

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