An artist’s impression of the crystal prism – aka dielectric resonator – placed above the millions of qubits which it can then control in a uniform way. Image: Tony Melov Aug. 23, 2021 — Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have removed a major obstacle that has stood in the way of quantum computers becoming a […]

For the first time, Northwestern University engineers have created a double layer of atomically flat borophene, a feat that defies the natural tendency of boron to form non-planar clusters beyond the single-atomic-layer limit.

While most of the quantum computing world is focused on achieving fault tolerant computing – some day – with intermediate applications for NISQ (near intermediate scale quantum) systems emerging along the way, Zapata Computing is taking a different approach. Its idea is to take the existing compute infrastructure necessary for large-scale enterprise applications and blend […]

If you’re not worried enough by the ongoing pandemic or rapidly accelerating climate change, you’re in luck: you can worry about space weather, too. In the interim since the last major space weather event – a massive solar flare in 1859 that fried telegraph machines – severe space weather has become a much more concerning […]

The first phase of what will be the fastest public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere has been unveiled at its new home at WA’s Pawsey Centre, resplendent in artwork that reflects the skies it will help researchers to unlock. The post Pawsey Unveils Fastest Supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere appeared first on HPCwire.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the first major component of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The IPCC’s first assessment report since 2014, AR6 paints a bleak picture of both the present and the future, illustrating “widespread, rapid and intensifying” climate changes and all but guaranteeing that the world will cross the […]

During the pandemic, protein binding simulations have had a heyday as researchers scrambled to use supercomputing to find effective ways to inhibit SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein. But developing a better understanding of protein binding has a wide range of applications outside of treating COVID-19, ranging from drug screenings for a wide range of diseases and conditions […]

The burgeoning field of neuromorphic computing – arguably led by Intel’s “Loihi” chip – leverages virtualized neurons to mimic the behavior of the brain. Typically, the “brain” referred to by that sentence would be a human brain – but what if it weren’t? The post Argonne Turns to Insects for Neuromorphic Computing appeared first on […]

The last moon landing occurred nearly half a century ago, in December of 1972. NASA’s Artemis III mission is looking to change that, with the agency planning to use its new Orion spacecraft to launch from Cape Canaveral in 2024, land humans on the moon and return them safely to Earth. Preparing for the first […]