Quantum. Series 2, Episode 4 /

The latest developments in health, medicine, environmental issues, space and technology feature in this exciting and thought-provoking package of science stories. This episode looks at the race to build a radically different kind of computer - a so-called quantum computer - in which the microprocess...

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Other Authors: Burchfield, Geoffrey (Narrator, Producer), Corfield, Richard (Producer), Costello, Paul (Producer), Dayton, Leigh (Narrator), Fry, Rae (Narrator), Lumsdaine, Naomi (Producer), Willis, Paul (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: Sydney, New South Wales : ABC Commercial, 2013.
Series:VAST: academic video online
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:The latest developments in health, medicine, environmental issues, space and technology feature in this exciting and thought-provoking package of science stories. This episode looks at the race to build a radically different kind of computer - a so-called quantum computer - in which the microprocessors are individual atoms; a team of Australian researchers that is conducting a world-first study to discover how high risk children can be spared the agony of full-blown anxiety disorders as they grow into adulthood; tiny creatures called chitons that make teeth of solid iron; a LIDAR laser being built in Tasmania and destined to be sent to Antarctica to take the temperature of the atmosphere 90km above the Earths' surface; and a new technique that is helping surgeons detect the single lymph node most likely to be affected by cancer - the so-called 'sentinal' node.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed July 10, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (26 min.).
Playing Time:00:26:25