As researchers around the world continue their long and arduous pursuit toward quantum computing, some are working on what might be considered “bridge” technologies to increase energy efficiency by reimagining how a computer carries out computations. Among these innovative approaches is probabilistic computing, a rapidly emerging area in which Kerem Çamsari, an assistant... read more »

As buzz grows ever louder over the future of quantum, researchers everywhere are working overtime to discover how best to unlock the promise of super-positioned, entangled, tunneling or otherwise ready-for-primetime quantum particles, the ability of which to occur in two states at once could vastly expand power and efficiency in many applications. Developmentally, however... read more »

“This year feels like a breakthrough. After more than thirty years of effort, the U.S. finally passed comprehensive climate legislation,” Leah Stokes, a political science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told Insider via email. “All told, there are hundreds of billions of dollars available for climate progress.” Read the full Business Insider... read more »

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Messina, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a scaled-up version of a probabilistic computer (p-computer) with stochastic spintronic devices that is suitable for hard computational problems like combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Moore's law predicts that computers get... read more »

Ten UC Santa Barbara researchers have been named among the most influential scientists in the world, according to the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list released by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters). The annual list identifies researchers in the sciences and social sciences who demonstrated significant influence in their respective field or fields through... read more »

While the United States fancies itself a global climate leader, the country is coming off a decade of tumultuous policy: It signed the Paris Agreement in 2015, withdrew two years later, and didn’t rejoin until 2021. Now, as the country counts down to midterm elections and the start of COP27 climate talks in Egypt, Americans are taking stock of whether US President Joe... read more »

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway. By Robinson Meyer The MIT professor was unequivocal. “If we had to stop producing CO₂, no coal, oil, or gas could be burned,” Carroll Wilson declared. The world would have to adopt nuclear energy en masse and perhaps even turn to “electric motor vehicles.” It was June 9... read more »