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MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible

Qubits in Liquid Helium Hulton Archive/Getty Images Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those deniers out there: prove that “scalable quantum computing is impossible in the physical world,” and Aaronson will personally pony up $100,000 to the winner. Continue reading

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MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible

Qubits in Liquid Helium Hulton Archive/Getty Images Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those deniers out there: prove that “scalable quantum computing is impossible in the physical world,” and Aaronson will personally pony up $100,000 to the winner. Continue reading

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Augmented Reality Will Help Future Astronauts Perform Surgery on Each Other

Augmented Reality Medical Exam The Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, CAMDASS, is a wearable augmented reality prototype that could someday allow space travelers to diagnose and treat their own medical issues. Continue reading

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Augmented Reality Will Help Future Astronauts Perform Surgery on Each Other

Augmented Reality Medical Exam The Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System, CAMDASS, is a wearable augmented reality prototype that could someday allow space travelers to diagnose and treat their own medical issues. Continue reading

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83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant

A titanium jaw, made to order A European octogenarian is the recipient of the first-ever 3-D printed jawbone , made of titanium powder that was sintered together one layer at a time. Continue reading

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83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant

A titanium jaw, made to order A European octogenarian is the recipient of the first-ever 3-D printed jawbone , made of titanium powder that was sintered together one layer at a time. Continue reading

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Antarctica’s Frozen Lake Vostok, Isolated for 20 Million Years, Breached By Russian Drills

Lake Vostok’s Location The location of Lake Vostok within Antarctica NASA The Russian scientists drilling into ancient buried Antarctic Lake Vostok have reached their destination , the Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported today. Continue reading

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Antarctica’s Frozen Lake Vostok, Isolated for 20 Million Years, Breached By Russian Drills

Lake Vostok’s Location The location of Lake Vostok within Antarctica NASA The Russian scientists drilling into ancient buried Antarctic Lake Vostok have reached their destination , the Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported today. Continue reading

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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class

Tetranitratoxycarbon Professor Robert Zoellner holds a model of tetranitratoxycarbon. Continue reading

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Cool Plasma Torch Kills Germs on Raw Chicken

Plasma Versus Chicken Breast Dirks et al., Journal of Food Protection We’ve seen the plasma beam toothbrush , where a blast of room-temperature plasma destroys plaque and bacteria in your mouth. Continue reading

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