‘Camera’ captures shockwaves as quantum bit forms inside a crystal
Scientists have recorded what happens inside a crystal in the split second before a quantum bit forms. A…
Pulverised recycled glass helps boost farm productivity with benefits to soil, plants and livestock
A growing number of Australian farmers are spraying or spreading pulverised glass on their paddocks to boost the…
US makes room-temperature multiferroic for low-energy computing
Engineers at Rice University in the U.S. have developed a new room-temperature multiferroic material that shows a 10-fold…
Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-189b Mirrors Its Star’s Chemistry, Astronomers Find
Using the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) on the Gemini South telescope at the International Gemini Observatory, astronomers…
Atomic tweak turns silicon into high-efficiency quantum light source
In the strange world of quantum physics, even the tiniest tweak can unlock outsized rewards. In a new…
Silicon vibrations add a new twist to dark matter research and quantum computing
At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest…
Japan’s Hitachi, Riken ink deal to build silicon quantum computer
Technology Tie-up with Imec targets prototype by fiscal 2027, 1,000-qubit system by fiscal 2030 The silicon-based quantum computer…
Maximizing Processor Efficiency With the LEAN Metric
In July, a University of Michigan computer engineering professor put out a new idea for measuring the efficiency…
‘Microwave brain’ chip for ultrafast, wireless computing unveiled
Cornell University researchers have developed a low-power microchip called ‘microwave brain’ – a processor that can compute on…