Noise limits the performance of modern quantum technologies. However, particles traveling in a superposition of paths can bypass noise in communication. A collaboration between the Universities of Hong-Kong, Grenoble and Vienna, as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, under the lead of Philip Walther, reveals novel techniques to reduce noise in quantum communication. The results, published in the latest issue…
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The 1st sign of intelligent life beyond Earth?
Physicist Avi Loeb of Harvard believes we should take seriously the idea that ‘Oumuamua – the 1st known object to pass through our solar system from interstellar space – might have been created by an alien civilization. His new book is called “Extraterrestrial.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/book-avi-loeb-extraterrestrial-1st-sign-of-intelligent-life…
Scholar to discuss the applications of quantum technology
Northwestern University’s Danna Freedman will share novel insights on quantum chemistry’s ability to unlock access to molecules and open new fields of study at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. …
The quantum advantage: a novel demonstration
Is a quantum machine really more efficient than a conventional machine for performing calculations? Demonstrating this ‘advantage’ experimentally is particularly complex and a major research challenge around the world. …
UK coronavirus variant develops vaccine-evading mutation
This mutation has also been seen in a novel coronavirus variant in South Africa. Source: https://www.livescience.com/uk-coronavirus-variant-mutation-e484k.html
A CubeSat will test out water as a propulsion system
Novel propulsion systems for CubeSats have been on an innovative tear of late. UT has reported on propulsion systems that use everything from solid iodine to the Earth’s own magnetic field as a way of moving a small spacecraft. Now, there is a potential solution using a much more mundane material for a propellant—water. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-cubesat-propulsion.html…
Iodine thruster could help clear space junk
A commercial nanosat called SpaceTy Beihangkongshi-1 – launched November 2020 – has successfully used an iodine thruster to change its orbit around Earth. This new thruster might help clear space junk by steering small satellites, at the end of their missions, back into Earth’s atmosphere where they’d burn up. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/iodine-thruster-might-help-clear-space-junk…
Hundreds of never-before-seen life-forms live in this 6,000-foot-deep volcano’s acid jets
Researchers discover 300 novel microbes living near the blazing hot jets of an underwater volcano near New Zealand Source: https://www.livescience.com/extreme-microbes-underwater-volcano.html
The first CubeSat with a Hall-effect thruster has gone to space
Student-led teams aren’t the only ones testing out novel electric propulsion techniques recently. Back in November, a company called Exotrail successfully tested a completely new kind of electric propulsion system in space—a small Hall-effect thruster. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-cubesat-hall-effect-thruster-space.html…
Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing
Working with theorists in the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have achieved a scientific control that is a first of its kind. They demonstrated a novel approach that allows real-time control of the interactions between microwave photons and magnons, potentially leading to advances in electronic devices and…