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Toshiba's Big Step Towards Commercialization of Quantum Cryptography

With the development of the world’s fastest quantum key distribution device, Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Research Europe Limited’s Cambridge Research Laboratory in the UK have now brought the advanced security of quantum cryptography closer to practical realization. A key data distribution speed of 13.7 megabits per second has been achieved by the device.

18 Sep 2017

WVU Physicists Take Classical Physics Research to New Frontiers

Just one year after arriving at West Virginia University, physicist Lian Li is taking physics research to new frontiers.

15 Sep 2017

Recent Study Demonstrates that Dark Matter Could Possess Strong Self-Interactions

Identical twins are similar to each other in many ways, but they have different experiences, friends, and lifestyles.

15 Sep 2017

The Downside of Quantum Computers

The era of totally fledged quantum computers lurks to destroy internet security that we are familiar with. Researchers are hurriedly trying to prepare new cryptographic methods before the influx of quantum computers, as cryptographers Tanja Lange and Daniel J. Bernstein explain today in the Nature journal.

15 Sep 2017

Scientists Present Thorough Review of Current and Future Prospects of Quantum Machine Learning

Language acquisition in young children is apparently connected with their ability to detect patterns. In their learning process, they search for patterns in the data set that help them identify and optimize grammar structures in order to properly acquire the language.

15 Sep 2017

Astronomers Discover Exoplanet that Trails Rapunzel-Like Hair Made of Gas

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, also members of the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research, have been working on a joint project with the universities of Berne, Warwick, Grenoble Alpes and the Paris Institute of Astrophysics.

15 Sep 2017

New Study Enhances Understanding of Supernova Explosions

New research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society explains that the accelerating expansion of the Universe may not be real, but could simply be an apparent effect.

15 Sep 2017

Australia’s First Hardware Quantum Computing Company Launches at UNSW

Silicon Quantum Computing, which holds the distinction of being Australia’s first hardware quantum computing company, has been launched at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

12 Sep 2017

Novel Flip-Flop Qubits Make Large-Scale Manufacture of Quantum Chips Dramatically Easier

UNSW engineers have invented a radical new architecture for quantum computing, based on novel ‘flip-flop qubits’, that promises to make the large-scale manufacture of quantum chips dramatically easier.

12 Sep 2017

Optimum Conditions for Laser Plasma Acceleration Discovered

In modern research, conventional electron accelerators have become a crucial tool. The majorly bright radiation produced by synchrotrons, or free electron lasers, supplies unique insights into matter at the atomic level.

11 Sep 2017

Study Highlights the Importance of Possible Behavior of Extremely High Energy Photons

Photons from far-off light sources, like blazars, are capable of going up against a constant exchange of identity in their journey through the Universe just like a nail-biting thriller packed with escapes and subterfuge.

8 Sep 2017

Microsoft Collaboration to Develop General-Purpose, Scalable Quantum Computer

PARTNERSHIP The University of Copenhagen plays a vital role in an aspiring ambitious Microsoft multi-million dollar investment. On 06 September 2017, the tech company and the University signed a long-term collaboration agreement on the development of a general-purpose, scalable quantum computer.

From Microsoft 7 Sep 2017