A team of scientists has figured out a way for a standard silicon chip to tackle quantum entanglement — a phenomenon in which…
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Yes, there is a perpetual motion machine on Kickstarter. No, it doesn’t break the site’s rules
Until June, Kickstarter vetted every single project posted on its website. It still takes down the occasional scam that sneaks past its moderators and algorithms.…
Read MoreResearchers say deep learning can help discover Higgs bosons and other particles
Scientists have researched the effectiveness of deep learning techniques for discovering exotic particles and found some significant improvements over previous methods. They believe deep learning could help analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider.…
Read MoreGoogle helps you learn about quantum physics with Minecraft
Quantum computing is just in its infancy, but its possibilities have certainly intrigued Google. In order to make the future come that…
Read MoreTwo new experiments help blaze the trail toward quantum computing with teleportation
It's not quite the same as the "Star Trek" style of moving something from point A to point B, but quantum teleportation could have big applications for communication, computing and security.…
Read MoreTwisted magnetic atoms could lead to hard drives that store 20 times more data
Researchers have developed a technique to create and destroy skyrmions, which are stable even when densely packed in a hard drive.…
Read MoreIn honor of Geek Week, here are 10 of the best science videos on YouTube
On Brainiac Day, the site is asking experts to aggregate some of their favorite videos. I took a crack at it myself.…
Read MoreThis new microscope will help make the smallest silicon circuits ever
Physics at a tiny scale will allow circuit components to be built with ultra precision.…
Read MoreInvestors lack quantum-computing startups to fund, so they’re turning to these guys
Quantum computing is still far off, but investors at the QWave Fund aren't waiting. They're funding startups with innovations in materials science and physics.…
Read MoreCERN: We’re sure this is a Higgs boson, but we’re not sure which one it is
The physics researchers at CERN are now much more confident that they have found the elusive particle, although questions remain that will require sifting through more data.…
Read MoreHuawei finds favor at CERN: researchers sign up for more UDS cloud storage
Huawei has become an official partner of CERN openlab, with the physics research facility giving the thumbs-up to the Chinese firm's exascale-targeting, mass object-based storage infrastructure.…
Read MoreWhat supercomputers and Schrodinger’s cat can teach the electronics industry
In the near term companies are eking more performance out of chips without using too much power by using co-processors taking a cue from the supercomputer industry. In the long term, though making faster and more efficient chips will take place at the subatomic scale.…
Read MoreThe next big thing for data centers: DC power
Although we live in an AC-dominated world, DC seems poised for a comeback, particularly in data centers. Facebook adopted a DC architecture in its Prineville, Ore., data center. SAP spent $128,000 retrofitting a datacenter at its offices in Palo Alto, Calif., to rely on DC power.…
Read MoreIBM builds memory chips one atom at a time
Computer and memory chips usually tend to get smaller over time, but in a paper published Thursday in Science, IBM details how it's building memory chips that would be 100 times more dense than today's hard drives by starting with the smallest building blocks: atoms.…
Read MoreAn exercise in galactic-scale energy
Follow physics professor Tom Murphy on an exercise in galactic energy that points out the absurdity that results from the assumption that we can continue growing our consumption of energy forever.…
Read MoreBumpTop Mac is Now Available
For those of you looking for a different desktop experience, BumpTop Mac is now available for public consumption. Almost four years ago…
Read MoreSurely You’re Joking: Feynman Physics Lectures Online
Outside of my dad, I don’t have a lot of “heroes,” though physicist Richard Feynman comes pretty close. I’m not smart enough…
Read MoreWeekly App Store Roundup: Jan, 24. 2009
Unholster your iPhone and boot up iTunes because it’s that time of the week when we all gather round the App Store…
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