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11.23.09

Is Warp Speed Possible? We Ask a String Theorist

PopSci talks to futurist Michio Kaku about the (not necessarily) impossible physics of Star Trek

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 05.14.2009 at 12:52 pm 20 Comments

Science geeks, Trekkers, and action-movie fans have now had a few days to digest the newest incarnation of the Star Trek franchise. PopSci set out to answer some of the movie's most puzzling questions (aside from what Winona Ryder was doing on Vulcan): Can we time-travel through black holes? Can we seed said black holes using something called "red matter"? How about teleportation -- will someone named Scotty (or Chekov) ever beam someone up?

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Beam Me Up, Ytterbium

With a tiny teleportation, scientists take an important step towards the still far-off goal of quantum computing

By Stuart Fox Posted 01.29.2009 at 11:29 am 1 Comment

The shambling, shuffling, marathon march towards making a quantum computer has just skipped ahead a few steps with the first successful transference of information between two particles of matter. While earlier work with photons proved the feasibility of quantum processing, this experiment represents the first-ever creation of quantum memory.

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