Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Principled ion: a minimum amount of energy is required to erase a quantum bit. (Courtesy: iStock/thelightwriter) The minimum amount energy needed to erase a quantum bit (qubit) of information has been ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Susan Landauer, renowned curator and a preeminent historian of California art, passed away from lung cancer at her Oakland, California home on December 19 at age 62. “No other scholar ...

Landauer grew up in a prosperous and assimilated family in Germany. He became a radical as a university student and by age 21 he became the editor of a journal, The Socialist. Despite its name, ...

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