Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy, answers science’s most important questions from The Big Questions in Science: The Quest to Solve the Great Unknowns.
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Quasars are among the brightest, oldest, most distant, and most powerful objects in the universe. Powered by massive black holes at the center of most known galaxies, quasars can emit enormous amounts of energy, up to a thousand times the total output of the hundreds of billions of stars in our entire Milky Way.
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With their promise of unimaginable speed and huge capacity, quantum computers stand to revolutionize the world of information processing.
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A team of researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Sydney has developed a new method to preserve quantum information, reports Forbes.
[more]Topic: "Connecting Star Formation, Galaxy Evolution and the X-ray Background" (Video)
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