Affordable broadband for Karoo users
Karoo farmers in the area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be able to access affordable broadband that won’t interfere with the sensitive radio telescopes used by both the existing MeerKAT and upcoming SKA projects. Because the radio telescopes are sensitive...
Nanodiamonds read quantum data
Quantum computing could soon become a mainstream reality, with the news that nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. Before now it has been impossible to read optically-written information from quantum computers electronically. Now, using a graphene layer, a team of scientists headed by Professor Alexander Holleitner of the Technische Universität München (TUM) has implemented a read unit that seems to work.