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| PHYSICISTS TEAM UP TO LEARN HOW QUANTUM MECHANICAL STATES BREAK DOWN |
| Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem of quantum mechanics – one that is blocking efforts to develop practical quantum computers with processing speeds far superior to conventional computers. Their respective theoretical and experimental studies investigate how microscopic objects lose their quantum-mechanical properties through interactions with the environment. The results of the researchers’ investigations were announced at the American Physical Society meeting held March 10-14 in New Orleans and also reported in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science. |
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| LAPTOPS MAY FRY YOUR SPERM |
| The increasing use of laptop computers could produce a generation of men with fertility problems, a new study suggests. |
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| OPTICAL ANTENNA BRINGS BENEFITS TO WIRELESS NETWORKS, HOUSEHOLD ELECTRONICS AND DATA TRANSFER |
| A new optical antenna, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick, will bring significant benefits to credit card payments, wireless networks, household electronics and longer distance data transfer. |
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| PLASTIC SHOWS PROMISE FOR SPINTRONICS, MAGNETIC COMPUTER MEMORY |
| Researchers at Ohio State University and their colleagues have expanded the possibilities for a new kind of electronics, known as spintronics. |
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| BREAKTHROUGH MADE IN ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY |
| Researchers at Oregon State University have made a significant breakthrough in the technology to produce crystalline oxide films, which play roles in semiconductor chips, flat panel displays and many other electronic products. |
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| THE NEXT GENERATION OF COMPUTERS WILL BE TIMELESS |
| Time is running out for the clocks that make our computers tick. Scientists have developed a new generation of hardware and software based on the simpler designs of the 1950s. |
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| NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS COMES ONE STEP CLOSER |
| An entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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| NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS COMES ONE STEP CLOSER |
| An entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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| WEARABLE COMPUTER NOW AVAILABLE |
| The laptop was an extension of the desktop computer. Now, it seems we have a head-top computer.
It might look like something from a sci-fi film, but for the first time a wearable computer is being offered for sale. |
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| QUANTUM COMPUTING EXPLORED |
| How to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics is the aim of a project by computer scientists Fred Chong of the University of California, Davis, Isaac Chuang at MIT and John Kubiatowicz at UC Berkeley. The five-year project is supported by a grant of $3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The grant will establish a Quantum Architecture Research Center between MIT, UC Davis and UC Berkeley. |
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