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Infineon Joins Coalition of German Universities Targeting Quantum Processors
February 11, 2021 by Luke James
A band of European researchers now including Infineon believe they ve pinpointed an area of hardware research that may unlock further quantum computing advancements: a processor based on superconducting qubits.
Quantum computers and the processors that power them promise to efficiently solve problems that current computers can’t. If they are to be realized on a widespread and commercially-viable scale, they could dramatically change industries from automotive to finance.
A Quantum Qubit Processor
To achieve this goal within the next four years, the project known as the German Quantum Computer based on Superconducting Qubits (GeQCoS) project has been awarded 14.5 million Euros by the German government. With it, the project will develop a quantum processor prototype that will consist of a few
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Which role models inspired some of ESO’s astronomers and engineers and why
The achievements and influence of these inspirational female role models in science and engineering To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to astronomers and engineers at ESO to find out who their female role model in science or engineering is and how they inspired them in their careers. We highlight those inspiring figures in this blog post.
Margaret Burbidge
My favourite female role model is the astronomer Margaret Burbidge, says Paola Amico, a system engineer for the Extremely Large Telescope instruments. Margaret Burbidge was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis, the now well-established theory that chemical elements are formed by nuclear fusion within stars. She later worked on galaxy rotation curves and quasars, discovering the most distant astronomical object then known.
WHO s rejection of Wuhan lab leak theory leaves too many questions unanswered
No-one yet knows how SARS-CoV-2 originated, but an international probe that so readily rules out an important possibility is disappointing
9 February 2021 • 2:33pm
Head down: Peter Ben Embarek, leader of the WHO delegation in Wuhan
Credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images
What a surprise. The World Health Organisation (WHO) mission to China to investigate the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes Covid 19 has dismissed the possibility that it leaked in a laboratory accident from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Speaking at a press conference this morning, the head of the mission Peter Ben Embarek laid out four hypotheses of how the virus might have come about: that it spread from direct transfer from an animal, that it came via an intermediate species, that it came from frozen food, possibly imported, and that it escaped in a laboratory accident.
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