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Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Quantum computers go digital One of the challenges of building a quantum computer is reducing errors. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have eased the problem with a method that reduces error rates by two orders of magnitude. |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics. |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility. |
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley |
Design links quantum bits Realizing the potential of phenomenally fast quantum computers means having to link thousands of quantum bits, which are the transistors of such computers. So far researchers have been able to connect only a few. A scheme for linking many tiny superconducting loops may pull it all together. |
Salon.com December 2, 2002 Jim Fisher |
Prometheus' gift of fission A sonnet commemorating the 60th anniversary of the first laboratory-induced nuclear chain reaction. |
Wired December 2002 Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
Salon.com September 24, 2002 Thomas Wilson |
"Strange Matters" by Tom Siegfried From strange quark matter to multiple universes, visionaries predict the weird things science has yet to discover. |
Salon.com September 16, 2002 Leonard Cassuto |
Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics" Six months ago, Jan Hendrik Schon seemed like a slam dunk nominee for a Nobel prize. Then some of his colleagues started to take a closer look at his research. |
Science News September 14, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Doing the Wave Now researchers have created a mathematical model that illuminates what it takes to trigger "the wave" in sports stadia, which they describe as concerted motion in an excitable medium. |
Science News August 3, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Home Runs and Ballparks How hard is it to hit a home run in different ballparks? A mathematical look. |
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