RezQu a Scalable Quantum Computer Architecture Built and its Future Potential

the system’s “scalable” architecture speaks to a bigger future A 6cm-by-6cm chip holds nine quantum devices, among them four “quantum bits” that do the calculations. The UCSB team said further scaling up to 10 qubits should be possible this year. AAAS journal Science recognized related work in 2010 as the scientific Breakthrough of the year …

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Perspectives on Fukushima from George Monbiot and New Scientist while Amory Lovins mongers fear

George Monbiot- Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the cooling system. The reactors began to explode and melt down. The disaster exposed a familiar legacy of poor …

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Using Light to Build Nanoparticles into Superstructures

Gold-carbon nanoparticle interactions. (a) TEM image of the tip of a gold-carbon filament; (b) TEM image of encapsulated gold nanoparticles within the tip; (c) Initial gold-carbon nanoparticle configuration for a molecular dynamics simulation; and (d) molecular dynamics result after 10 ns showing wetting of a gold nanoparticle by carbon atoms in the 450K range. These …

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Controversial EMdrive claims to have transferred technology to a major US aerospace compan

a high temperature superconductor emdrive thruster, which operates at 3.8 GHz, and was designed using an update of the software used for the previous S band designs. Super-conducting surfaces are formed from YBCO thin films on sapphire substrates. Small signal testing at 77 deg K confirmed the design, with a Q of 6.8×106 being measured. …

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Temperature Dependence of Protein Folding Deduced from Quantum Transition

Arxiv – Temperature Dependence of Protein Folding Deduced from Quantum Transition The quantum transition model fits the folding curves of 15 different proteins and even explains the difference in folding and unfolding rates of the same proteins. A quantum theory on conformation-electron system is presented. Protein folding is regarded as the quantum transition between torsion …

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Southampton scientists begin patient trials of new leukaemia cancer vaccine

A new cancer treatment which strengthens a patient’s immune system and enables them to fight the disease more effectively is being trialled on patients for the first time in the UK. The treatment will use a new DNA vaccine, developed by scientists from the University of Southampton, which will treat a selected group of volunteers …

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Egyptians on the streets of Cairo think opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei is too Weak

Egyptians on the streets of Cairo said on Monday they had reservations about opposition leader Mohamed ElBarade Egyptian authorities harassed his supporters and ElBaradei lost much credibility through his long absences abroad. The official media tried to ridicule him, saying he knew nothing about Egypt and had no political experience. Some elements of the government’s …

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Widom Larsen Theory and Zawodny at NASA Aviation Unleashed

Joseph Zawodny, NASA Langley Research Center – Energetics, had a presentation at NASA Aviation Unleashed where he looked at low energy nuclear reactions and other possible game changing technologies. Lewis G. Larsen developed a theory of LENRs (WLT) that explains ALL the evidenceand along with Dr. Alan Widom published their theory in Eur. Phys. J. …

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New Energy Times Interviews Rossi who hopes to reveal a one megawatt low energy nuclear reaction device in September or October 2011

New Energy Times – Energy Catalyzer: It Works and It’s Not Fusion * it is not “cold fusion” but weak [force] nuclear reactions. Pons and Fleischmann did heavy-water electrolysis with a palladium cathode and a platinum anode. I don’t do electrolysis, I don’t use either platinum or palladium and I use temperatures that manage to …

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Magnetic fields vibrates water to prevent damage of organs during freezing

Singularity Hub has coverage of a system for freezing organs without damaging them. What do you do to prevent ice crystals during slow freezing? Use magnets. ABI is the Japanese company producing the freezer system.ABI’s “Cells Alive System” (CAS) vibrates water with magnetic fields, preventing freezing, even at supercool temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius (According …

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Estimates of North Dakota’s Bakken Oil and oil formations around the world like the Bakken

1. Harold Hamm, chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Resources Inc., said the formations in North Dakota and Montana hold about 20 billion barrels of recoverable crude, or about five times the amount previously estimated by federal geologists. The formations also hold the natural gas equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil. This is …

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