Science

One step closer to a quantum computer

A quantum computer is controlled by the laws of quantum physics; it promises to perform complicated calculations, or search large amounts of data, at a speed that exceeds by far those that today's fastest supercomputers are capable of.

There’s Space In Space For Data Security

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NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the...

Entire galaxies feel the heat from newborn stars

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have shown for the first time that bursts of star formation have a major...

Record-breaking pulsar takes tests of general relativity into new territory

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Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope, along with radio telescopes around the world, to find and study a bizarre...

Piezoelectric 'taxel' arrays convert motion to electronic signals for tactile imaging

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Georgia Tech researcher Wenzhuo Wu holds an array of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into...

Movement of pyrrole molecules defy 'classical' physics

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UK scientists one step closer to finding the missing anti-matter from the Universe

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The LHCb detector