Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock
This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam,...
UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3x5 About Half of the Time
The device used to run the first solid state demonstration of Shor's algorithm. It is made up of four phase qubits and five...
Finding the nano-needle in the haystack
Nanotechnology can be used to improve the properties of commercial products, to kill bacteria, fight odours and more. But what happens when these products are discarded and these incomprehensibly small particles are released into the environment? Can...
Constructive conflict in the superconductor: Charge density waves improve our understanding of the zero-resistance transport of electricity and could explain an unusual interplay of superconducting and magnetic materials
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have discovered charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and neodymium...
NASA Curiosity Team Pinpoints Site for First Drive
Glenelg Intrigue
This image shows a closer view of the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover and a destination...
Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of a pair of star clusters that are believed to be in the...
Iranian Researchers' Method to Produce Nickel Oxide Nanopowders Receives US Patent
"So far, I have patented two inventions concerning the production of nickel oxide nanopowders both in Iran and the US in joint...
Nature: Electronic Read-out of Quantum Bits: Quantum State of a Single Atomic Nucleus Can Be Controlled and Determined by Simple Electrodes / Basis of Quantum Computers and Nano Spintronics
TbPc2 molecule quantum-bit device. Electrons (red) from the electrodes jump onto the molecule reading out the electronic spin (orange) and...
