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New Research Could Be First Step Toward Buckyball-Powered Quantum Computers
Scientists have characterised the quantum behaviour of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known as buckyballs, with the hope of perhaps one day turning them into miniature quantum computers.
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How A Radical 1960s Architect Inspired NASA’s Next Great Space Robot
NASA’s bizarre Super Ball Bot is unlike any robot ever built — it uses a net of wires and rods to move, and could someday explore harsh exoplanets. It also has an unlikely heritage: It was inspired by the ideas of a visionary from the 1960s building floating cities based on the same concept.
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This Amazing Geodesic Dome Houses A Danish Political Throwdown
Every year, 10,000 Danes come together for the Folkemødet, a celebrated “political festival” of spirited policy debate, which sounds extremely Danish. Later this year, they’ll be doing so in an incredible space: a beautiful, wood-and-steel geodesic dome.