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Aug 26, 2020

Intel Advances On The Road To Quantum Practicality

Posted by in categories: computing, education, government, quantum physics

Clarke urges other companies to also get ready now by investing in developing a quantum-ready workforce. “Quantum computing requires a specialized workforce, expertise that is pretty rare today,” he says. Clarke also advises companies to work with government agencies that are sponsoring quantum computing experiments and to fund quantum research in universities. He also supports nation-wide initiatives to spread the word all the way down the education system, even to high-school students, “so people aren’t scared or intimidated by the word quantum.”


Intel aims to achieve quantum practicality—commercially-viable quantum computing—by the end of this decade.

Aug 26, 2020

The First Clock In America Failed, And It Helped Revolutionize Physics

Posted by in category: physics

The pendulum didn’t tick right when they brought it here: the start of a fascinating story.

Aug 26, 2020

Researchers on a path to build powerful and practical quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

For the first time, researchers have designed a fully connected 32-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer register operating at cryogenic temperatures. The new system represents an important step toward developing practical quantum computers.

Junki Kim from Duke University will present the new hardware design at the inaugural OSA Quantum 2.0 conference to be co-located as an all-virtual event with OSA Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science APS/DLS (FiO + LS) conference 14—17 September.

Instead of using traditional bits that can only be a zero or a one, quantum computers use qubits that can be in a superposition of computational states. This allows quantum computers to solve problems that are too complex for traditional computers.

Aug 26, 2020

Space station crew spend extra night in Russian segment as air leak investigation continues

Posted by in category: space

Astronauts will spend another night in the International Space Station’s Russian segment while ground controllers continue to search for the source of an air leak on the orbiting lab.

Aug 26, 2020

Mosquitoes armed with bacteria beat back dengue virus

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Nov 2019 NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND

—In a handful of cities around the world, mosquitoes have been armed with a microscopic weapon against disease. The bacterium Wolbachia pipientis blocks the insects’ ability to spread fearsome viruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. Since 2011, researchers have been injecting Wolbachia into the eggs of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and releasing the hatched insects, which spread this protection to their offspring. But the field has been waiting for evidence that this approach actually reduces disease in people.

Field trials suggest public health benefit to spreading Wolbachia.

Aug 26, 2020

Learning to pilot a real-life GIANT mech suit

Posted by in category: futurism

Your dreams of piloting a giant mech are now reality.

Aug 26, 2020

Why are clothing sizes so erratic and can they be fixed?

Posted by in category: mobile phones

New apps are allowing users to record their dimensions, and recommend what size to buy at different outlets.


New apps use your phone to record your dimensions and recommend what size to buy at shops.

Aug 25, 2020

Benjamin Franklin

Posted by in categories: education, physics

Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.[1] He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company, Philadelphia’s first fire department,[2] and the University of Pennsylvania.[3]

Franklin earned the title of “The First American” for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.[4] Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, “In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat.”[5] To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin “the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.

Aug 25, 2020

Jeep previews 2022 Grand Wagoneer, plug-in hybrid Wrangler 4xe

Posted by in category: futurism

Jeep published a pair of preview videos that shed light on the 2022 Grand Wagoneer and the plug-in hybrid Wrangler 4xe. Both are due out in September 2020.

Aug 25, 2020

As researchers race to find successful treatments and an eventual cure for COVID-19, everyone is getting a real-time glimpse into the messiness of scientific discovery

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

We’re all impatient for solid recommendations based on rigorous testing and established facts, but in a fast-moving field, that’s rarely possible. And someone always has to be the guinea pig. This was just as true 130 years ago when Niels Ryberg Finsen began experimenting with treating disease with UV light. He started by testing on himself.


Niels Ryberg Finsen pioneered therapeutic ultraviolet lamps and won himself a Nobel Prize.