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Researchers Use Quantum Dots to Observe How Viruses Bind to Healthy Cells

A research team led by the University of Leeds has observed for the first time how HIV and Ebola viruses attach to cells to spread infection.

15 Mar 2016

New Technique to Detect Presence or Absence of Individual Electrons with Unprecedented Accuracy

Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have demonstrated the ability to detect the presence or absence of individual electrons with unprecedented accuracy.

15 Mar 2016

Prototype Lab Aims to Measure Big Bang Neutrinos with Unprecedented Precision

Big Bang neutrinos are believed to be everywhere in the universe but have never been seen. As the oldest known witnesses or relics of the early universe, these subatomic particles could shed new light on the birth of the cosmos if scientists could pin them down. That's a tall order since these ghostly particles can speed through planets as if they were empty space.

15 Mar 2016

New Controversial Discovery Could Affect Calculations Regarding Future of Quantum Computers

Bazinga! University of Cincinnati theoretical physicists are about to report on a controversial discovery that they say contradicts the work of researchers over the decades.

15 Mar 2016

Delayed-Choice Experiments Bring Further Insights into Quantum Physics

Since the 17th century, science was intrigued by the nature of light. Isaac Newton was certain that it consists of a stream of particles. His contemporary Christiaan Huygens, however, argued that light is a wave. Modern quantum physics says that both were right.

11 Mar 2016

Researchers Demonstrate Generation of Multiphoton Entangled Qubit States on Optical Chip

The optical chip developed at INRS by Prof. Roberto Morandotti’s team overcomes a number of obstacles in the development of quantum computers, which are expected to revolutionize information processing. The international research team has demonstrated that on-chip quantum frequency combs can be used to simultaneously generate multiphoton entangled quantum bit (qubit) states.

11 Mar 2016

Quantum Materials Delivers Presentation on Quantum Dot Solar

In a presentation today at the Smithers Apex’s 4th Annual Quantum Dots Forum in Newport Beach, California, Dr. Nathan Stott, Quantum Materials Corp. Director of Materials, outlined the Company's goals for increasing the efficiency and commercial viability of solar energy production through the integration of quantum dots into thin-film solar cells.

10 Mar 2016

Cornell Alum Earns 2016 Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for Research on New Forms of Electronic Matter

Mohammad Hamidian, Ph.D. ’11, has been named the 2016 winner of the prestigious Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for his discoveries of new forms of electronic matter at the nanoscale and at extreme low temperatures.

10 Mar 2016

Niels Bohr Institute Researchers Demonstrate Key Property of Majorana Zero Modes

Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize computation, cryptography, and simulation of quantum systems. However, quantum physics places a new demand on information processing hardware: quantum states are fragile, and so must be controlled without being measured.

10 Mar 2016

HTCondor Software Plays Key Role in LIGO’s Detection of Gravitational Waves

A few years ago, a team of international scientists parlayed many years of research into the discovery of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle, thought to be a building block of our universe. The analysis of data collected from several particle collisions was aided by HTCondor, a software program.

9 Mar 2016

Researchers Develop New Ultra-Bright Source of Single Photons

A new ultra-bright source of single photons - 15 times brighter than commonly used sources and emitting photons that are 99.5% indistinguishable from one another - has been developed by researchers from the CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, and Université Paris-Sud.

9 Mar 2016

Quantum Vitalscan Enables Medical Professionals to Triage Patients Suffering from Chest Pains

Quantum Imaging, a spinout from Leeds University, is working on a portable device dubbed Quantum Vitalscan that warrants a closer look in this week’s editorial.

8 Mar 2016

First Prototype Fusion Reactor Could Help Produce Clean, Sustainable Energy for Power Grids

Occupying a nondescript building on the outskirts of suburban Orange County that looks more like a warehouse than a superhero’s lair, a team of scientists and engineers believe they’re on a path to saving the planet. They work for Tri Alpha Energy, a company with deep connections to the University of California, Irvine, and their research facility houses an experimental fusion reactor that may be the most viable avenue yet toward producing clean, abundant and sustainable energy for the world’s power grids.

8 Mar 2016

Researchers Use Coupled Model to Predict Electron Heat Losses in Fusion Reactors

Cutting-edge simulations run at NERSC over a two-year period are helping physicists better understand what influences the behavior of the plasma turbulence that is driven by the intense heating necessary to create fusion energy. This research has yielded exciting answers to long-standing questions about plasma heat loss that have previously stymied efforts to predict the performance of fusion reactors and could help pave the way for this alternative energy source.

8 Mar 2016

Revolutionary Method to Flip Magnetic Bits Faster and More Energy Efficiently

Use your computer without the need to start it up: a new type of magnetic memory makes it possible. This ‘MRAM’ is faster, more efficient and robust than other kinds of data storage. However, switching bits still requires too much electrical power to make large-scale application practicable. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have discovered a smart way of solving this problem by using a ‘bending current’. They publish their findings today in the journal Nature Communications.

7 Mar 2016

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Researchers Use Quantum Dots to Observe How Viruses Bind to Healthy Cells

New Technique to Detect Presence or Absence of Individual Electrons with Unprecedented Accuracy

Prototype Lab Aims to Measure Big Bang Neutrinos with Unprecedented Precision

New Controversial Discovery Could Affect Calculations Regarding Future of Quantum Computers

Delayed-Choice Experiments Bring Further Insights into Quantum Physics

Researchers Demonstrate Generation of Multiphoton Entangled Qubit States on Optical Chip

Quantum Materials Delivers Presentation on Quantum Dot Solar

Cornell Alum Earns 2016 Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for Research on New Forms of Electronic Matter

Niels Bohr Institute Researchers Demonstrate Key Property of Majorana Zero Modes

HTCondor Software Plays Key Role in LIGO’s Detection of Gravitational Waves

Researchers Develop New Ultra-Bright Source of Single Photons

Quantum Vitalscan Enables Medical Professionals to Triage Patients Suffering from Chest Pains

First Prototype Fusion Reactor Could Help Produce Clean, Sustainable Energy for Power Grids

Researchers Use Coupled Model to Predict Electron Heat Losses in Fusion Reactors

Revolutionary Method to Flip Magnetic Bits Faster and More Energy Efficiently

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