Category Archives: Science

Better together: Silicon qubits plus light add up to new quantum computing capability

A silicon-based quantum computing device could be closer than ever due to a new experimental device that demonstrates the potential to use light as a messenger to connect quantum bits of information — known as qubits — that are not immediately adjacent to each other. The feat is a step toward making quantum computing devices from silicon, the same material used in today’s smartphones and computers. (more…)

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Forscher ent­decken neue Form von Eis

Eis ist nicht gleich Eis. Abhängig von Druck und Temperatur bilden Wassermoleküle unterschiedliche Strukturen aus, insgesamt siebzehn kristalline Eisformen konnten bisher nachgewiesen werden. Ein Team um den Innsbrucker Chemiker Thomas Lörting hat nun eine weitere Eisform entdeckt. Sobald die Kristallstruktur bestimmt ist, könnte es als Eis XVIII in die Lehrbücher eingehen. (more…)

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Rapid Detection and Recovery: The Science of Hunting Meteorites

UA professor Vishnu Reddy is leading a NASA-funded project to find freshly fallen meteorites like the one in Michigan last month.

At 8:10 p.m. on Jan. 16, hundreds of people in Michigan reported the bright glow of a meteor streaking through the sky, rattling windows as it broke the sound barrier. The meteor then broke apart in the Earth’s atmosphere, and its pieces rained quietly to the ground.  (more…)

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Neue Wege in der Gesichterforschung

Objektive Zahlen zum subjektiven “ersten Eindruck”

Menschliche Gesichter sind unser bedeutendstes und komplexestes Signalsystem. Für die wissenschaftliche Entschlüsselung werden künstliche Gesichter, so genannte Morphs, erstellt, die sich ausschließlich in charakteristischen Gesichtsmerkmalen für eine einzige Eigenschaft – z.B. Körperhöhe, Körperkraft, Testosteronkonzentration, etc. – unterscheiden. (more…)

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New Sustainable Production Method Could Advance Plastics and Pharmaceuticals

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

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Berkeley Lab ‘Minimalist Machine Learning’ Algorithms Analyze Images From Very Little Data

CAMERA researchers develop highly efficient convolution neural networks tailored for analyzing experimental scientific images from limited training data

Mathematicians at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data. Rather than relying on the tens or hundreds of thousands of images used by typical machine learning methods, this new approach “learns” much more quickly and requires far fewer images. (more…)

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