Science

Quantum computing closer as RMIT drives towards first quantum data bus: RMIT researchers trialling a quantum processor capable of routing information from different locations have found a pathway towards the quantum data bus

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Quantum information is encoded in single particles of light (photons). The perfect state transfer is applied to one photon of an...

Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust

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Of the millions of dust grains Cassini has sampled at Saturn, a few dozen appear to have come from beyond our...

A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars

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The Spider Nebula lies about 10,000 light-years away from Earth and is a site of active star formation.

Researchers create perfect nanoscrolls from graphene’s imperfect form

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This sketch illustrates how a nanoscroll forms from a graphene oxide flake as a result of ultrasonic irradiation.

Elusive state of superconducting matter discovered after 50 years

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A schematic image representing a periodic variation in the density of Cooper pairs (pairs of blue arrows pointing in opposite directions)...

Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds

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As an exoplanet passes in front of a more distant star, its gravity causes the trajectory of the starlight to bend,...

NASA Invests in Two-Dimensional Spacecraft, Reprogrammable Microorganisms

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Three-way battles in the quantum world

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An artificial quantum world of atoms and light: Atoms (red) spontaneously arrange themselves in a checkerboard pattern as a result of the...