“Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have created a new material that is lighter, less dense, harder, and stronger than steel. But this material isn’t one of those breakthroughs that only sounds good on paper. It is paper, and it could be a game-changer for materials science if it can live up to researchers’ hopes.”
“University of Pittsburgh researchers have assembled a key piece of tech that will help enable a future generation of extremely powerful quantum computers as well as advanced electronic materials and better computer memories. Their single-electron transistor is the first of its kindmade entirely from oxide-based materials, an important aspect that allows it to work as a solid-state memory.:
Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron
A stepping stone toward quantum computing and artificial atoms
“Physicists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland have devised a new kind of quantum experiment using humans as photon detectors, and in doing so have made the quantum phenomenon of entanglement visible to the naked eye for the first time.
For those that need a primer, entanglement is that strange quantum phenomenon that links two particles across distances such that any measurements carried out on one particle immediately changes the properties of the other—even if they are separated by the entire universe. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” And indeed it is weird.”
