University of Warwick researchers propose phonons as a bus linking distant qubits on a germanium-on-silicon chip, in a June 15 APL Quantum paper. The links target the nearest-neighbour limit on error correction, and their claimed hardware savings over surface-acoustic-wave schemes are argued from the design without a measurement behind them yet.
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University of Nottingham researchers tie remembered responsive care, free play and a warm home to adult well-being in the UK, US and Japan. Both ends of the link come from participants' own reports, so the study cannot yet separate how people were raised from how they remember it.
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Astronomers find white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 has sustained a bow shock for at least 1,000 years with no disc to power it. Its strong magnetic field may account for part of that, and the team says an unexplained energy source may supply the rest.
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A Warwick-led team imaged the interior of a 214 cuprate crystal at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and found two slightly different atomic arrangements. The boundaries between them are hundreds of times wider than expected.
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Monash and Warwick researchers report a bacterial antibiotic starves the invasive hyphal form of glucose, pointing antifungal discovery at virulence rather than viability.
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A new analysis of 77 primate species reports that brain size and group size fail to predict vocal repertoire size, putting pressure on the social brain account of language origins.
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