Researchers have created a new type of optical system. Their 'nano-hedgehogs of light', also known as optical skyrmions, set the stage for a new platform for information processing, transfer and storage applications.
Jul 27, 2018
In synthetic biology, the control of gene expression requires a multistep processing of biological signals. The key steps are sensing the environment, computing information and outputting products. To achieve such functions, the laborious, combina...
Jul 26, 2018
There have already been several quantum computer technologies that have scaled to 50-100 qubits. Gatemon superconducting qubits appear ready to scale to that level as well. Nature Nanotechnology – Superconducting gatemon qubit based on a pro...
Jul 26, 2018
BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ColdQuanta Inc. today announced $6.75M in Seed financing led by Maverick Ventures, with participation from Global Frontier Investments. The funding will be used to commercialize ColdQuanta’s foundational ultracold ...
Jul 26, 2018
Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO), a leading provider of advanced process control systems, today announced its participation in the following investor events:
Jul 26, 2018
An international group of researchers has achieved the world's first multi-qubit demonstration of a quantum chemistry calculation performed on a system of trapped ions, one of the leading hardware pla...
Jul 26, 2018
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University researchers $1.1 million to study single nanoparticles and their ability to act as electrocatalysts.
Jul 26, 2018
Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to Rice University scientists.
Jul 26, 2018
To make qubits for quantum computers less susceptible to noise, the spin of an electron or some other particle is preferentially used. Researchers have now developed a method that makes it possible to couple such a spin qubit strongly to microwave...
Jul 26, 2018
An extensive experiment testing the immune effects of lab-designed nucleic acid nanoparticles found varying and specific responses from various immune cells, depending on each particle's shape and formulation, a finding that may encourage further ...
Jul 26, 2018
