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Trends in Plant Science
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Do We Create the Reality by Observing
Anton Zeilinger heads up the IQOQI lab in Vienna. Photograph by Mark Mahaney. Zeilinger and his group have only just begun to consider the grand implications of all their work for reality and our world. Like others in their field, they had focused on entanglement and decoherence to construct our future information technology, such as…
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Quantum Computing
Towards quantum chemistry on a quantum computer B. P. Lanyon1,2, J. D. Whitfield4, G. G. Gillett1,2, M. E. Goggin1,5, M. P. Almeida1,2, I. Kassal4, J. D. Biamonte4,6, M. Mohseni4,6, B. J. Powell1,3, M. Barbieri1,2,6, A. Aspuru-Guzik4 & A. G. White1,2 Abstract Exact first-principles calculations of molecular properties are currently intractable because their computational cost grows…
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Frogs, Foam and Fuel: UC Researchers Convert Solar Energy to Sugars
Photos By: Illustration by Megan Gundrum, fifth-year DAAP student For decades, farmers have been trying to find ways to get more energy out of the sun. In natural photosynthesis, plants take in solar energy and carbon dioxide and then convert it to oxygen and sugars. The oxygen is released to the air and the sugars…
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Filling the Universe with Sand
One of the “Silicon Avogadro Spheres” at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington, UK. See:Counting Atoms in a Sphere Stefan writes… To measure means to count. We measure a length by counting marks on a ruler, and a time span by counting ticks of clock. We compare the quantity we want to measure to multiples…
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The World of Information
I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth, which God forms with the explicit intention of making it as much as possible like us”Descartes’ Views on the Pineal Gland (click on image for larger version) Computationally, how is it that the world can see information in this way…
