Computing’s Search for Quantum Questions
It was billed as the vindication of the quantum computer. Late last year, researchers at Google announced that a quantum…
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Feeling Objects that Aren’t There
Imagine this. You wake up in the morning to the irritating buzz of your alarm. Instead of fumbling for a…
Stretchy battery
It’s no stretch to say that batteries won’t continue to be rigid and blocky forever. Engineers inspired by Japanese…
Freeing the dinos within
Paleontologists have long faced a daunting obstacle to their research: Fossils are usually embedded in rock. To manually wrench the…
Supersized Viruses
On February 22, festival-goers at Melbourne’s dusk-to-dawn White Night celebration lined up in droves outside the State Library of Victoria…
Paging Dr. Data
For doctors who treat trauma patients, prediction is key: Will a patient die in the next 30 minutes? Why or…
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Almost every device that needs energy also wastes energy. Cars get their zip by burning gasoline, but that process heats up the…
Descartes’ Decipherer
Erik-Jan Bos, a philosopher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, unearthed research gold with an Internet search. In putting together…
Cars of the Future
We won't be driving the cars of the future; more likely, they'll be driving us. They'll park themselves, run on…