Failing again. Failing better.
Yesterday, researchers announced a breakthrough: a quantum computer based on a crystal composed of 300 atoms. Although it doesn’t sound like much, the potential computing power of this quantum computer dramatically outstrips all present day computers. The full details were published in Nature. Instead of operating in a binary system like regular computers, a quantum…
There are a few stories going around today about a demonstration of a time cloak. You can read the New Scientist’s coverage here and Danger Room’s coverage here. Now a lot of this science is well beyond me (if you want to read about the research, you can check out the scientists’ article in Nature…
As discussed here and in more detail here, six Italian seismologists are on trial for manslaughter stemming from alleged miscommunication of seismic risk. Early on April 6, 2009, after a series of increasingly large rumbles, a 6.3 earthquake struck the city of L’Aquila, killing 308. When news of the prosecutions first broke, the story was…