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Monday, February 20, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Single-atom transistor is end of Moore's Law; may be beginning of quantum computing

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 04:12 PM PST

The smallest transistor ever built -- in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built -- has been created using a single phosphorus atom by an international team of researchers.

X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 11:33 AM PST

Unlike Earth, the moon has no active volcanoes. This is surprising as liquid magma is believed to exist deep inside the Moon. Scientists have now found that this hot, molten rock could actually be so dense that it is too heavy to rise to the surface. For this experiment, microscopic reproductions of moon rock were put at the extremely high pressures and temperatures found inside the moon and their densities measured with powerful X-rays.

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