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Making a leap in quantum computing

R&D Daily, 19 hours ago

A Princeton Univ. researcher has demonstrated a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings. The feat is essential to the development of future varieties of superfast computers with near-limitless capacities for data.

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Making a leap in quantum computing

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Was Mendel Darwin’s Missed Opportunity?

Was Mendel Darwin’s Missed Opportunity?

16 hours ago

The editors at Wired Magazine have pointed out that today is the anniversary of Gregor Mendel's presentation of a painstakingly produced paper about his breeding experiments on some 28,000 pea plants. It's too bad that Charles Darwin, who was sent a copy in 1866, never bothered to read it.

Call for collaboration

Call for collaboration

Feb 4

The world of R&D is full of collaboration. R&D Magazine has seen this directly through some of the winners of the R&D 100 awards in the past. However, not only is collaboration important to the world of R&D, but it is essentially important to all aspects of life. For the Army, it is not different.

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Making a leap in quantum computing

Making a leap in quantum computing

19 hours ago

A Princeton Univ. researcher has demonstrated a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings. The feat is essential to the development of future varieties of superfast computers with near-limitless capacities for data.

Record-breaking collisions at LHC produce lots of mesons

Record-breaking collisions at LHC produce lots of mesons

Feb 5

In December, the Large Hadron Collider shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions. This week, team led by researchers from MIT, CERN and the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest, Hungary, completed work on the first scientific paper analyzing the results of those collisions.

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