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Feb 6, 2017
A one-off injection could one day lower your #cholesterol levels for the rest of your life
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, health
Feb 6, 2017
This German fusion reactor could be the future of clean energy
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: futurism, nuclear energy
Feb 6, 2017
This sidewalk generates electricity from your footsteps
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
Feb 6, 2017
The First Truly Intelligent Machine Will Be Humanity’s Last Invention of Necessity
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
Feb 6, 2017
IBM Scientists Measure Heat-Transfer through Single Atoms
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics
Published today, using a technique which looks like trampoline, IBM scientists have measured the thermal conductance of metallic quantum point contacts made of gold down to the single-atom level at room temperature for the first time.
As everything scales to the nanoscale, heat – more precisely, the loss of it – becomes an issue in device reliability. To address this, last year, IBM scientists in Zurich and students from ETH Zurich published and patented a technique to measure the temperature of these nano-sized objects at and below 10 nanometer – a remarkable achievement. They called the novel technique scanning probe thermometry (video) and it provided engineers, for the first time, with the ability to map heat loss across a chip, and, more importantly, map heat loss down to the single device level and to map temperature distributions.
Feb 6, 2017
Top Artificial Intelligence Companies in Healthcare to Keep an Eye On
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Feb 6, 2017
NASA gives its nod to NanoRacks for space station’s first commercial portal
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
NASA has accepted a plan from a private venture called NanoRacks to provide the International Space Station with an air lock that would serve as its first commercial portal.
The plan could serve as the model for the eventual development of entire space stations backed by the private sector.
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Feb 6, 2017
Collaboration Prepares DTU for Quantum Future
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, computing, encryption, quantum physics
I actually had a person recently state quantum was a fad; boy were they ever wrong.
During the next ten years, quantum technologies will become part of and revolutionize our everyday lives in the form of computers, sensors, encryption, and much more—and in a way that can be difficult for us to comprehend.
Businesses will also boost both their research and development activities in this area.
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Feb 6, 2017
Supercomputers for Quantum Computers
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: encryption, engineering, quantum physics, supercomputing
NICE.
The Science
Newswise — Quantum computers — a possible future technology that would revolutionize computing by harnessing the bizarre properties of quantum bits, or qubits. Qubits are the quantum analogue to the classical computer bits “0” and “1.” Engineering materials that can function as qubits is technically challenging. Using supercomputers, scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predicted possible new qubits built out of strained aluminum nitride. Moreover, the scientists showed that certain newly developed qubits in silicon carbide have unusually long lifetimes.
