New research shows just how much global warming is eating away at the glaciers on the world’s highest peaks. From a report: A new study published this week in Science Advances offers one of the most comprehensive views of what’s happening to the glaciers in the Himalayas — and what it means for the people who live below them. The study,…
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Researchers find connectivity more important that thought for specialized optimizing machines
A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Japan reports that connectivity is more important than thought when building specialized optimizing machines. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes how they tested connectivity importance on two kinds of specialized optimizing machines. …
Ammonia detected on the surface of Pluto, hints at subterranean water
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in France has found evidence of ammonia on the surface of Pluto. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their finding and what it might have revealed about the dwarf planet. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-ammonia-surface-pluto-hints-subterranean.html…
Scientists develop polariton nano-laser operating at room temperature
A room temperature polariton nano-laser has been demonstrated, along with several related research findings, regarding topics such as polariton physics at the nanoscale and also applications in quantum information systems. The research was published in the journal, Science Advances. …
Scientists Create Mind-Controlled Hearing Aid That Allows the Wearer To Focus On Particular Voices
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A mind-controlled hearing aid that allows the wearer to focus on particular voices has been created by scientists, who say it could transform the ability of those with hearing impairments to cope with noisy environments. The device mimics the brain’s natural ability to single out and amplify one voice against background conversation….
Digital quantum simulators can be astonishingly robust
In solving quantum-physical problems in many-body systems, such as predicting material properties, conventional computers rapidly reach the limits of their capacity. Digital quantum simulators might help, but until now they are drastically limited to small systems with few particles and only short simulation times. Now, Heidelberg University physicist Dr. Philipp Hauke and colleagues from Dresden and Innsbruck (Austria) have demonstrated that…
Researchers find water in samples from asteroid
Researchers have discovered water in tiny dust particles from asteroid Itokawa. Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft brought the asteroid dust to Earth in 2010. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/researchers-find-water-samples-asteroid-itokawa…
The strangest crab that has ever lived
Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs. It’s a 95-million-year-old extinct species that, scientists say, will force us to rethink the definition of a crab. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/callichimaera-perplexa-strangest-extinct-crab…
Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer and remote qubit entanglement
Quantum information platforms are based on qubits that talk to each other and photons (optical and microwave) are the carrier of choice—to date, to transfer quantum states between qubits. However, in some solid-state systems, acoustic vibrational properties of the material themselves known as phonons can be advantageous. In a recent study published on Science Advances, B. Bienfait and colleagues at the…