The 2008 presidential election marked two great changes of the guard. The biggest immediate change, of course, was the election of an African-American Democrat as the next president of the United States.

But perhaps a bigger change over the long term was the crowning of the Internet as the king of all political media. It was the end of the era of television presidency that started with JFK, and the beginning of the Internet presidency.Read More

A Quantum Memory Leap

Transferring the state of separated ions could point the way to quantum computing.

In recent years, physicists have devised numerous ways to use the oddities of quantum mechanics to transmit and process information.Read More