Month: October 2015

Design of a 3D silicon chip quantum computer architecture based on single atom quantum bits scalable to millions of qubits

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Researchers at UNSW and the University of Melbourne have designed a 3D silicon chip architecture based on single atom quantum bits, providing a blueprint to build a large-scale quantum computer. Scientists and engineers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), headquartered at UNSW, are leading the world …

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Graphene chip 200 times more sensitive than silicon and will be lower cost

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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new material that can potentially replace the silicon widely used in sensor chips in appliances, paving the way for smaller and cheaper electronic products. A new graphene-based sensor chip is more than 200 times more sensitive than current chips available in the market that …

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Pervaporation eliminates the need for electricity in desalination to cut energy usage in half

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Scientists at Alexandria University in Egypt are developing an innovative water-purifying technique that uses half the energy as previous methods. They have created a membrane that can both clean and desalinate water, that could offer Egypt and other developing countries an inexpensive new water source. The method uses materials from North Africa and could make …

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Yamaha Motobot can ride unmodified motorcycle at 120 mph

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Yamaha showed off a robotic biker called Motobot at the Tokyo Motor Show 2015. Motobot can ride an unmodified motorcycle on a racetrack at more than 200 km/h (120mph). Those catching the robot debut saw it on Yamaha’s YZF-R1M machine. Yamaha’s goal is to beat MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi. Brian WangBrian Wang is a …

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China plans to triple high speed rail network to over 31000 miles and boost speed from 240 mph to 310 mph by 2020

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China’s high-speed railway network is expected to span 18,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) by the end of this year. China will add another 2,000 kilometers of high-speed railroad by the end of this year. This is part of the government’s plan to put more than 8,000 kilometers of extra lines in both regular and fast-speed railway …

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Tuberculosis deaths halved from 1990 but still 1.5 million per year – UN targest 2030 to end TB

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The fight against tuberculosis (TB) is paying off, with this year’s death rate nearly half of what it was in 1990, but 1.5 million still people died from the disease last year, with more than half occurring in China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. “Most of these deaths could have been prevented,” according to WHO’s …

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Google Loon will provide internet service to Indonesia in 2016

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Following 17 million km of test flights across jungles, mountains and plains, Project Loon has signed agreements with three mobile network operators – Indosat, Telkomsel and XL Axiata – to begin testing balloon-powered Internet over Indonesia in 2016. Currently, only about one in three of Indonesia’s 250 million residents is connected to the Internet. Stringing …

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Genetically engineered virus called talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) has been approved by the FDA to treat advanced melanoma

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Nature reports that the First cancer-fighting virus has been approved. An engineered herpesvirus that provokes an immune response against cancer has become the first treatment of its kind to be approved for use in the United States, paving the way for a long-awaited class of therapies. On 27 October, the US Food and Drug Administration …

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China officially will change to two child policy

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China leadership said it would abandon its controversial “one-child policy” on Thursday and allow all couples to have two children, effectively ending the biggest population control experiment in history amid growing pressures from a rapidly aging population. China’s unpopular one-child rule was introduced in 1980, and brutally enforced through huge fines, forced sterilizations and abortions, …

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Real technology to mimick the Star Wars Force or Fictional Telekenesis

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Combining gesture interface, augmented reality and virtual reality interfaces, drones, power beaming, beam forming, robotics, magnetic levitation and sonic levitation would enable people to mimick the Star Wars Force or Fictional Telekenesis. Drones with speakers would be able to get into position to provide sonic leviation. Power beaming would enable higher power usage on the …

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Sonic Tractor Beam can levitate and manipulate objects in midair and will scale up to levitate and move soccer ball sized objects

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The world’s first sonic tractor beams that can lift and move objects using soundwaves have been built by a team that includes researchers at the University of Sussex. Researchers at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol, in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, have now built a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude soundwaves to generate an acoustic …

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