Tag: spin

  • Nation & World

    A class open to the world

    Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Intelligent Earth

    Once its axis tilts, how does the Earth “know” to return to its normal orientation? Work by Harvard researchers provides some answers.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Quantum computing, no cooling required

    Using a pair of impurities in ultra-pure, laboratory-grown diamonds, researchers have created room-temperature quantum bits and have stored information in them for nearly two seconds — an increase of nearly six orders of magnitude over the life span of earlier systems. The work, described in the June 8 issue of Science, is a critical first…

    6 minutes