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New Selfie Shows Curiosity, the Mars Chemist

“A new selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it’s especially meaningful for the mission’s team: Stitched together from 57 individual images taken by a camera on the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm …

On “Quantum Supremacy”

“Quantum computers are starting to approach the limit of classical simulation and it is important that we continue to benchmark progress and to ask how difficult they are to simulate. This is a fascinating scientific question. Recent advances in quantum …

Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

“Physicists have been talking about the power of quantum computing for over 30 years, but the questions have always been: will it ever do something useful and is it worth investing in? For such large-scale endeavors it is good engineering …

Samsung Electronics Begins Mass Production of Industry’s First 12GB LPDDR4X-based uMCP

“Utilizing the industry’s first 24Gb LPDDR4X chips, this highest-capacity uMCP makes 10+ GB memory solutions available to mid-market smartphone users Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry …

The Race to Commercially-Viable Quantum Computing Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

“Recent Findings Should be Celebrated, but Practical Realities are the Real Test Quantum computing receives a lot of attention due to its potential to take on problems beyond the reach of today’s computers, such as new drug discovery, financial …

Creating Miracles with Polymeric Fibers

““Polymers are very, very useful materials when it comes to modern applications.” Mohan Edirisinghe leads a team of researchers at University College London studying the fabrication of polymeric nanofibers and microfibers — very thin fibers made up of polymers. The group …

Discovery of Ultrafast Particle Interactions Could Help Make Quantum Information Devices Feasible

“Energy is information. Lengthening the time during which a system is capable of retaining energy before losing it to the local environment is a key goal for the development of quantum information. This interval is called the “coherence time”. Several …

Highest-throughput 3D printer is future of manufacturing

“Rapid manufacturing on-demand could put warehouses, molds into the past Northwestern University researchers have developed a new, futuristic 3D printer that is so big and so fast it can print an object the size of an adult human in just …

Perfect conditions for precision nanostructures

“Protein-folded DNA nanostructures offer a new building material for biotechnology. By using proteins that naturally bind and arrange DNA inside cells, a KAUST-led team has devised a plug-and-play strategy for building stable, custom-designed nanostructures. The versatile yet straightforward method …

Reducing open-circuit voltage loss in organic solar cells

“Researchers at Institute for Molecular Science in Japan report that organic solar cells (OSCs) with high mobility and highly crystalline donor (D) and acceptor (A) materials were able to reduce an open-circuit voltage (VOC) loss. The origin of the high …