"Journey Through Life"

Thursday, September 30

Earth 2: The Next Frontier

Another 'Earth' found, but it's 188 trillion km away

WASHINGTON: For the first time, astronomers have detected a planet in another solar system that has the essential conditions needed to support life.

The presence of Earth-like planets outside our solar system, in what is called the ''habitable zone'', has been predicted for some time, but identifying and measuring one marks the beginning of a new era in the search for life beyond Earth.

''This is our first Goldilocks planet - just the right size and the right distance from its sun. A threshold has been reached,'' said Paul Butler, an astronomer and ''planet-hunter'' at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The planet is orbiting in the middle of the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 581, which means it could have water on its surface. Named Gliese 581g, it has a mass three to four times that of Earth and an orbital period of just under 37 days.

Its mass indicates that it is probably a rocky planet and has enough gravity to hold on to an atmosphere, said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and one of the leaders of the team that discovered the planet.
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Wednesday, September 29

The Next Generation of Car Parks

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This Is the Car Park of the Future, and It's Awesome

Holy moly is this amazing: check out The Cube, a new, state-of-the-art car park in Birmingham, UK, that takes any possible human error out of the equation to ensure that your vehicle gets placed—and retrieved—with ease. Video inside.

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Monday, September 27

The Computers Of The Future

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Quantum leap towards computer of the future

An Australian-led team of scientists have taken a big step forward in the race to develop a quantum computer.

Breakthrough: an artist's impression of a phosphorus atom (a red sphere surrounded by a blue electron cloud) coupled to a silicon single-electron transistor (College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales: William Algar-Chuklin)

Quantum computing relies on harnessing the laws of quantum physics - laws that apply to particles smaller than an atom - to get a computer to carry out many calculations at the same time.

Previous research has focused on using light, or materials other than silicon, in their work on quantum computers.

But the team, led by engineers from the University of New South Wales and the University of Melbourne, have been examining the properties of electrons embedded in silicon, which is cheaper, better-understood, and forms the basis of most electronics today.

To build a quantum computer, researchers need to be able to write information to an electron, by changing its "spin state", and to read information, by measuring its spin.

In an article published today in Nature, the researchers say they have cracked the second part of this puzzle, by creating a device that measures the spin state of a single electron in a single phosphorus atom inside a block of silicon.
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Friday, September 24

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