harvard universitys samuel arbesman recently submitted a paper to physical review e entitled an explanation of superlinear scaling for innovation in cities ht new scientist.a the major thrust of the paper embedded among the erudite scientific analysis is that larger cities have dispproportionally more innovation because they allow for richer interconnection between different communities. my initia...
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for decades scientists have dreamed of computer chips that manipulate light rather than electricity. unlike electrons photons can cross paths without interfering with each other so optical chips could compute in three dimensions rather than two crunching data in seconds that now takes weeks to process. for now though optical computing remains a dream. the chips require crystals that channel p...
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