Science

Secure Computing for the ‘Everyman': Quantum computing goes to market in tech transfer agreement with Allied Minds

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This small device developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses the truly random spin of light particles as defined by laws of quantum...

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NASA Probes Studying Earth’s Radiation Belts to Celebrate Two Year Anniversary

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This image was created using data from the Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescopes on NASA's twin Van Allen Probes. It shows the...

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Memory Reformat Planned for Opportunity Mars Rover

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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured this view southward just after completing a 338-foot (103-meter) southward...

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Cosplayers Fight for Online Anonymity and Privacy During Dragon Con

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Nanoscale assembly line

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On the nano assembly line, tiny biological tubes called microtubules serve as transporters for the assembly of several molecular objects....

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New analytical technology reveals 'nanomechanical' surface traits

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A new research platform uses a laser to measure the "nanomechanical" properties of tiny structures undergoing stress and heating, an...

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NASA Radar System Surveys Napa Valley Quake Area

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NASA's C-20A Earth science research aircraft with the UAVSAR slung underneath its belly lifts off the runway at...

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A new, tunable device for spintronics: An international team of scientists including physicist Jairo Sinova from the University of Mainz realises a tunable spin-charge converter made of GaAs

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Tunable spin Hall angle device based on GaAs through field induced intervalley repopulation

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