In a groundbreaking new course supported by the CIQC, students aren’t just learning the equations behind quantum mechanics, they are designing and measuring their own superconducting qubit chips.
Walk into the laboratory of CIQC Investigator Alp Sipahigil in early December, and you won’t see students sitting in lecture halls. Instead, you will find teams of graduate and undergraduate researchers huddled around cryostats, instruments capable of cooling electronics to temperatures colder than deep space. Inside those chambers are quantum chips that the students designed themselves...
Alex Saum-Pascual proposes that new artistic representations could help bridge the gap between knowing a technology is harmful and actually changing our behavior.
It’s easy to forget that the cloud isn’t an amorphous ball of fluff, says UC Berkeley Professor Alex Saum-Pascual — that it is, in fact, physical internet infrastructure that takes many forms in many places across the world.
In her forthcoming book, Earthy Algorithms: A Materialist Reading of Digital...
When most people hear about a fishing expedition in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, they might picture researchers snorkeling through coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea or diving into crystal-clear cenotes, surrounded by postcard-perfect scenery.
But nothing I had imagined—or Googled—before my first field trip came close to the reality we faced in our search for pupfishes. We were after something far more elusive: the Laguna Chichancanab adaptive radiation, a group of pupfish species named for the way their tails wag like those of playful puppies. These fish exhibit remarkably different...
Glaciers are retreating around the world as the planet warms, but scientists have debated how severe the shrinkage is compared to periodic glacial advances and retreats since the end of the Ice Age about 12,000 years ago.
A new study of four glaciers dotting the high Andes in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia shows that, at least in the tropics, the...
Glaciers are retreating around the world as the planet warms, but scientists have debated how severe the shrinkage is compared to periodic glacial advances and retreats since the end of the Ice Age about 12,000 years ago.