Monthly Archives: February 2019

Helium Crisis!!!

Did you know that we are in a world wide shortage of helium? This shortage impacts many businesses including health care. Being in the florist industry it impacts balloons mostly, 5 years ago you could get a full tank of … Continue reading

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Local Impact Of Global Helium Shortage

The rate at which helium is currently being used throughout the world is faster than the rate at which it can be replenished, putting an unprecedented amount of stress on the world’s reserves. Photo: Getty Images. Technology, balloons impacted by … Continue reading

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Quantum Computing Is Facing A Component Shortage… Without A Nuclear Arms Race

If you thought the great GPU shortage of 2017/18 was bad, try being a quantum researcher. Shortages of specialised quantum hardware and ex-military nuclear material could stifle further development in the field. With growing applications for qubit’s entangled state, exotic … Continue reading

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A Pinch Of Moondust In The ITER Plasma

One day in the distant future, fusion plants might be fuelled by helium 3—an isotope that is extremely scarce on Earth but reputed to be abundant on the Moon. But long before the advent of helium 3 fusion¹ (if ever … Continue reading

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Calculating Quantum Computing’s Future

In 1982, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman conceived of an ultrapowerful calculator that relies on microscopic particles to operate. He called his idea a “quantum” computer, referring to the laws that govern nature at a subatomic level. Today, some of … Continue reading

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