There hasn’t been a Venus lander since 1984. But NASA wasn’t willing to settle for that. They’ve made a materials science tour de force, resulting in new integrated circuits capable of withstanding the surface of Venus.
Hardly a day goes by without a top-level research group announcing some kind of graphene-related breakthrough, but this one’s a biggy — this could be the missing step that finally paves the way to post-silicon electronics.
Don your quantum computing tinfoil hat, for we have epic news that might just result in qubits replacing bits before the decade is out: Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a quality of silicon carbide — a material commonly used in the manufacture of semiconductors — that can be used to perform quantum computing.
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