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Three tiny qubits, another big step toward quantum computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rules that govern the world of the very small, quantum mechanics, are known for being bizarre. One of the strangest tenets is something called quantum entanglement, in which two or more objects (such ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Fusion-io Deliveries The Worlds Fastest SSD

(Physorg.com) -- Fusion-io, a leader in high-performance I/O solutions, announced their new ioDrive Duo. The new ioDrive Duo is one of the fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solutions. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4 weblog




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Mars Science Laboratory computer issue resolved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fujitsu introduces world's fastest CMOS 14-bit digital-to-analog converter

Fujitsu Semiconductor today announced its first 3rd generation high performance Digital to Analog Converter Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP). The MB86066 ‘Anakin’ DAC combines 14-bit ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Behavior of parent organisms may influence genes passed on to next generation

Timing is everything, and if there was ever a scientist whose legacy was tarnished by bad timing, it was Jean Baptiste Lamarck. The French naturalist lived from 1744 to 1829 - and published his own evolutionary theory decades ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's not solitaire: Brain activity differs when one plays against others

Researchers have found a way to study how our brains assess the behavior – and likely future actions – of others during competitive social interactions. Their study, described in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to use a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Metabolic errors can spell doom for DNA

Many critical cell functions depend on a class of molecules called purines, which form half of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, and are a major component of the chemicals that store a cell’s energy. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Something old, something new: Evolution and the structural divergence of duplicate genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene duplications are arguably the driving force of organismal evolution – and if they survive, such duplicate genes will diverge in both regulatory and coding genomic regions. Coding ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

'Leap second' under the gun at Geneva time talks

Timekeepers gathered in Geneva on Thursday to thrash out a contested proposal to abolish a 40-year-old practice of adding the occasional second to world time.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

World's best metronome enables slow-motion pictures of atoms and molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers conduct experimental implementation of quantum algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at D-Wave Systems have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits on an experimental quantum computer, giving some credence to the plausibility of true quantum computers being ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Test your memory in world's biggest experiment

Today researchers at the University of Cambridge launch what could be the world’s biggest ever memory experiment.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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