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Feb 20, 2021

7 ways a trip to Mars could kill you

Posted by in category: space travel

The first human Martian explorers will face huge risks, there’s no way around it.

It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Feb 20, 2021

Now on ‘Mars time,’ NASA’s Perseverance team has to shift their work hours 40 minutes later every day

Posted by in category: space

NASA asks the engineers and scientists behind the rover to make this daily change for three months, sometimes working overnight.

Feb 20, 2021

An asteroid is approaching, so I invited one of Earth’s defenders to dinner

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks, satellites

Near-Earth Asteroid 99942 Apophis will be visible on Sunday. Some say it could ultimately destroy satellites and spaceships. The creators of the Unistellar eVscope telescope are trying to marshal our defense.

Feb 20, 2021

South Africa Moves to Manufacture, Commercialize Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology

Posted by in categories: energy, government

After over a decade of research and development around hydrogen fuel technology, President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa is now ready to manufacture and commercialise hydrogen fuels technology.

The President said this when he responded to a debate on the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday.

For more than a decade, government has been working with various partners, including the private sector and academia, to develop hydrogen fuel cell and lithium battery storage technologies.

Feb 20, 2021

Russia’s Kalashnikov eyes production in India, woos gadget lovers with hi-tech shotgun

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Featuring a built-in computer, the Ultima shotgun envisages WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and can synchronize with smart phones. It is intended to woo younger clients such as gadget enthusiasts.


Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov plans to start making its AK-203 assault rifle in India this year and wants to attract a wider audience with a hi-tech shotgun, chief executive Dmitry Tarasov said.

Feb 20, 2021

Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

8 oct 2020.


MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected to a microwave transmission line have shown how the qubits can generate on demand the photons, or particles of light, necessary for communication between quantum processors.

Feb 20, 2021

An Old 60’S Rocket Has Returned From Space!!

Posted by in category: futurism

Feb 20, 2021

Qudits and High-Dimensional Quantum Computing

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics

10 November 2020


Qudit is a multi-level computational unit alternative to the conventional 2-level qubit. Compared to qubit, qudit provides a larger state space to store and process information, and thus can provide reduction of the circuit complexity, simplification of the experimental setup and enhancement of the algorithm efficiency. This review provides an overview of qudit-based quantum computing covering a variety of topics ranging from circuit building, algorithm design, to experimental methods. We first discuss the qudit gate universality and a variety of qudit gates including the pi/8 gate, the SWAP gate, and the multi-level controlled-gate. We then present the qudit version of several representative quantum algorithms including the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, the quantum Fourier transform, and the phase estimation algorithm.

Feb 20, 2021

New 3D printing jobs at 3D Printing Industry and MyMiniFactory, appointments at HP, Xometry and VELO3D

Posted by in categories: business, employment

Welcome to the latest edition of our 3D printing jobs and career moves update for the additive manufacturing sector.

If you are looking for a new position in the industry, we keep our 3D Printing job board updated with the latest positions. You can easily apply to any of the posted jobs after creating a free profile. If you are just about to enter the sector, we offer a guide on how to get a job in the 3D printing industry.

The 3D Printing Industry jobs board is also free to use for employers to find 3D printing experts for their businesses.

Feb 20, 2021

Coding for Qubits: How to Program in Quantum Computer Assembly Language

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Sandia Labs pioneers Just Another Quantum Assembly Language (.


Quantum computing arguably isn’t quite full-fledged computing till there’s quantum software as well as hardware. One open-source quantum computer project at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico aims to address this disparity with a custom-made assembly language for quantum computation.