Carbon materials such as nanotubes, graphene, activated carbon and graphite are in high demand. The research team at Shinshu University set out to create more efficient forms of activated carbon by utilizing the superconducting magnets, thus incre...
Jul 17, 2019
A group of physicists at UNSW Sydney have built a super-fast version of the central building block of a quantum computer. The research is the milestone result of a vision first outlined by scientists 20 years ago.
Jul 17, 2019
Raising crops on Mars is far easier in science fiction than it will be in real life: The
Jul 16, 2019
Quantum information processing promises to be much faster and more secure than what today's supercomputers can achieve, but doesn't exist yet because its building blocks, qubits, are notoriously unstable.
Jul 16, 2019
Quantum computers promise to perform operations of great importance believed to be impossible for our technology today. Current computers process information via transistors carrying one of two units of information, either a 1 or a 0. Quantum comp...
Jul 16, 2019
Physicists have theorized that a new type of material, called a three-dimensional (3-D) topological insulator (TI), could be a candidate to create qubits for quantum computing due to its special properties. A study found that when the TI's in...
Jul 16, 2019
Using silica aerogel to trap heat and create liquid water sounds far-fetched, but it could one day be used to help us grow food on the planet’s surface.
Jul 16, 2019
Mars’s surface is not suitable for life because of its low temperatures and constant radiation bombardment, but just a few centimetres of aerogel could fix that
Jul 16, 2019
Mars’s surface is not suitable for life because of its low temperatures and constant radiation bombardment, but just a few centimetres of aerogel could fix that
Jul 16, 2019
Researchers develop shape memory nanocomposite fibers for untethered high-energy microengines.
Jul 16, 2019
