The interdisciplinary project, led by the UA’s Barbara Mills and Sudha Ram, was awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
When we think about some of the most pressing questions facing society today — on topics ranging from immigration to inequality to overpopulation — it might be helpful to consider how humans have handled similar issues throughout history, suggest researchers at the University of Arizona. (more…)
Berkeley Lab receives $3 million per year to explore quantum computing for science
For more than 50 years, Moore’s Law has reigned supreme. The observation that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles roughly every two years has set the pace for our modern digital revolution—making smartphones, personal computers and current supercomputers possible. But Moore’s Law is slowing. And even if it wasn’t, some of the big problems that scientists need to tackle might be beyond the reach of conventional computers. (more…)
Archaeon kann Metalle aus synthetischem Mars-Regolith oxidieren und verstoffwechseln
WissenschafterInnen um Tetyana Milojevic von der Fakultät für Chemie der Universität Wien sind auf der Suche nach einzigartigen “Biosignaturen”, die Mikroben überall hinterlassen – auch auf synthetisch hergestellten extraterrestrischen Mineralien. Diese erforscht die Biochemikerin und Astrobiologin in einer eigenen “Mars-Farm”, wo sie die Interaktion zwischen dem Archaeon Metallosphaera sedula und Gesteinsformen, wie sie am Mars vorkommen, beobachtet. Die Mikroben sind in der Lage, die Metalle zu oxidieren und in ihren Stoffwechsel aufzunehmen. Die Ergebnisse wurden kürzlich im Fachjournal “Frontiers in Microbiology” publiziert.
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ANN ARBOR — Live fast and die young—it’s a popular saying that could ring a little truer than is comfortable, according to a recent University of Michigan Study. (more…)
Matthew Green is an assistant professor of physics at NC State. He was involved in a multi-institutional research project aimed at detecting a process called Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nuclear Scattering (CEvNS). The project was successful, and its findings appear in Science. Matthew agreed to a Q&A with The Abstract on the project and its results. (more…)
Die Quantenwelt ist sehr fragil. Fehlerkorrekturcodes helfen, Quanteninformation vor Störungen zu schützen. Innsbrucker Quantenphysiker haben nun ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem unterschiedlich kodierte Bauteile wie Prozessor und Speicher miteinander verbunden werden können. Mit der Methode kann ein Datenbus für Quantencomputer konstruiert werden. (more…)
Distractions diminish people’s ability to remember, but important facts still stick, UCLA psychologists report
“In a world of computers and iPhones, it’s rare that we’re fully focused,” said Alan Castel, a UCLA professor of psychology. (more…)
Throughout the universe, supersonic shock waves propel cosmic rays and supernova particles to velocities near the speed of light. The most high-energy of these astrophysical shocks occur too far outside the solar system to be studied in detail and have long puzzled astrophysicists. Shocks closer to Earth can be detected by spacecraft, but they fly by too quickly to probe a wave’s formation. (more…)
