Welcome to our “Science Tank” section. In this area of the website, we deal with relevant discoveries from the world of science (physics, mathematics, computer science, medicine and many more) in an interdisciplinary manner. We publish important achievements from around the world with a special focus on the scientific environment in Göttingen. Have fun and stay curious.
Emotional headlines influence our judgment of other people, even if we consider their source to be unreliable Neuropsychologists with Berlin Humblodt University found out. Thanks to technological advances, rumors, lies and half-truths spread quickly and far. They are always available on the Internet. Although their truthfulness can often be easily questioned, they influence the beliefs of individuals and societal opinion. Until recently, however, little was known about how incorrect information could appear in the Brain processed and how that neurologicalProcesses affect our judgment.
The head of the chinese and russian Space agencies have a memorandum of understanding to jointly build one Lunar station signed. In the document, both sides express their wish to help create a "International Scientific Lunar Station"to work together and invite other countries to the project. The signatures were given by Zhang Keijan, Director of the National Space Agency of China, and Dmitry Rogozin, Director of Roscosmos.
Details of the project were not disclosed. It was only stated that the two countries will work to scientific institutions on the moon and / or in its orbit to build. The aim is to create unmanned systems and equip them in such a way that people can stay there.
"Liquid glass"- This is how scientists at the German University of Konstanz describe the new state of matter that they were able to observe in experiments. The new phase seems to be between a solid and a colloidal State (such as a Gel and) to be located. The researchers observed tiny particles of this type of substance at the transitions between liquid and solid phases. For these experiments, colloidal fines were generated from elliptically shaped particles. When substances change from liquid to solid, their molecules usually organize themselves into one crystalline pattern
Another big step in that direction quantum computers. Scientists and engineers of the Canadian Xanadu Quantum Technologies company have worked with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a programmable, scalable Quantum photonics chip created on which various algorithms can run. Details of the chip are in Nature described.
The oxygen-rich Atmosphere will last about a billion years on earth, according to a pair of scientists from Toho University and the Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science NASA. In Nature Geoscience Kazumi Ozaki and Christopher Reinhard described the results of their simulations about the future of our planet.
We know the Sonnethat will lose mass, grow in size over time, devouring Mercury and Venus, and their outer layers will reach Earth. But life on our planet will cease to exist long before that.
Scientists from a Polish-German research team from the Technical University of Wrocław, the Universities of Augsburg and Münster as well as Munich have succeeded in creating nanoscale sound waves with Light quanta to mix. For their research, the results of which have just been published in the renowned journal Optica were published, they used an artificial atom that converts sound wave vibrations into individual light quanta with unprecedented precision. Photons - converts.
Light and sound waves form the basis of modern communication technologies. Light is used to transmit data over the global fiber optic network. And devices that use sound waves are used for wireless communication between routers, tablets or smartphones. These two key technologies must now be adapted to the coming age of quantum communication. So-called hybrid quantum technologies are the key here.
Microsoft has the publication of PowerFX announced a new low-code programming language based on popular Excel formulas. The company puts the language under one Open source license available and hopes to help develop his Power platforms such as Power Automate or Power Virtual Agents and eventually become a standard for this type of application.
Recent actions by IT giants like Google and pharmaceutical companies suggest that the first really useful application of quantum computers related to working on new calculations drugs could be. quantum computers will - at least theoretically - have a performance that cannot be achieved by classic computers. This follows directly from the principle of how they work. In addition, a small excursion to the Qubit world:
Scientists who work for the US Department of Defense have successfully completed one solar panel the size of a pizza box tested in space. It was used as a prototype for a future system for transmitting Electricity evolved from space to any point on earth. The panel labeled Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM), mounted on the Pentagon's X-37B unmanned aerial vehicle drone, was first deployed in May 2020.
For the first time it has been possible to interlock Quantum states to be transmitted via a wire that connects two nodes (see also: World's first integrated quantum communication network). Specialists from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago reinforced the Quantum state simultaneously on the same wire by first using the wire to entangle a qubit at each node, and then this one qubits entangled with further qubits at the nodes.
The development of methods for transferring entangled states is a key element for scaling Quantum computer systems is needed, says the study's lead author, Professor Andrew Cleland.
The human Brain still holds innumerable secrets. One of them is why we make certain choices and choose different paths in life. It turns out that a person's outlook on life can be related to their mental performance, according to a study by the University of Cambridge. Scientists have shown that people with extreme views do less well on complex intellectual tasks. A team of scientists has found that our brains contain clues about the ideologies we want to live by. New research has shown that people with extremist views are less good at solving more complex brain teasers. Experts believe their work can be used to search for people at risk of radicalization, according to an article published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.