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Atom by atom: new silicon computer chip technique opens up quantum computing construction possibilities

Jan 15, 2022

The technique can create large scale patterns of counted atoms that are controlled so their quantum states can be manipulated, coupled and read-out. Lead author of the paper, Professor Jamieson...

UniSA prepares for perfect landing with second simulator

Jan 15, 2022

UniSA is due to take delivery of its second simulator this year – the Airbus A320 – giving budding pilots the opportunity to learn their way around a new cockpit,...

The 3 problems with fines for not reporting positive COVID tests

Jan 15, 2022

In the first 24 hours more than 80,000 people registered positive tests (recorded since January 1). But since we have no idea of the total number of tests taken –...

The only way is... down! Why underground urban development is on the rise

Jan 15, 2022

Why underground urban development is on the riseBuilding underground can solve problems for city planners, but UNSW expert Dr Asal Bidarmaghz warns that planning is needed to ensure subterranean solutions...

Mounting omicron infections force businesses to scramble, threatening economic recovery

Jan 7, 2022

The omicron coronavirus variant is slowing the economic recovery, making worker shortages for already-shorthanded employers more severe and leading consumers to pull back from spending on restaurants, hotels and airlines...

Testing Site Says It Detected First LA Flurona Case – NBC Los Angeles

Jan 7, 2022

A COVID testing site in Brentwood says a child returning from a family trip to Mexico tested positive for both influenza and coronavirus. A COVID testing site says it has...

MIT community in 2021: A year in review

Jan 7, 2022

Here are some of the top stories in the MIT community this year. Continuing to work through CovidVaccines became widely available to the MIT community early in the year —...

Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters

Jan 7, 2022

Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in certain pockets where oxygen naturally plummets and waters become unlivable for most aerobic organisms. And though they make up less...

Kerstin Perez is searching the cosmos for signs of dark matter

Jan 7, 2022

Kerstin Perez is searching for imprints of dark matter. The experiment, which Perez co-leads, is the General AntiParticle Spectrometer, or GAPS, a NASA-funded mission that aims to detect products of...

Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics

Jan 7, 2022

The discovery of this centuries-old antibiotic resistance predates antibiotic use in medical and agricultural settings. Misuse of antibiotics is now accelerating the process, and antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously...