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Thought matter could only come in three flavors—solid, gas and liquid? You’re wrong! McGill University researchers have discovered a new state, which they’re calling quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal. While the name doesn’t really roll off the tongue, this fourth state of matter could be used to fabricate modern transistors and continue Moore’s Law… possibly indefinitely.

The quasi-three-dimensional electron crystals were discovered in a device scientists cooled at ultra-low temperatures – roughly 100 times colder than intergalactic space. They then exposed it to the most powerful magnetic fields possible on Earth, which made it “pop” from a 2D electron system to a semi-3D one. This fourth state could help improve transistors, allowing for greater density on a single microchip. Looks like Gordon Moore can rest assure that his law won’t be broken for another long while. [Science Blog]

(Note: That’s not a picture of the new state of matter, by the way.)

Thought matter could only come in three flavors—solid, gas and liquid? You’re wrong! McGill University researchers have discovered a new state, which they’re calling quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal. While the name doesn’t really roll off the tongue, this fourth state of matter could be used to fabricate modern transistors and continue Moore’s Law… possibly indefinitely.

The quasi-three-dimensional electron crystals were discovered in a device scientists cooled at ultra-low temperatures – roughly 100 times colder than intergalactic space. They then exposed it to the most powerful magnetic fields possible on Earth, which made it “pop” from a 2D electron system to a semi-3D one. This fourth state could help improve transistors, allowing for greater density on a single microchip. Looks like Gordon Moore can rest assure that his law won’t be broken for another long while. [Science Blog]

(Note: That’s not a picture of the new state of matter, by the way.)

Thought matter could only come in three flavors—solid, gas and liquid? You’re wrong! McGill University researchers have discovered a new state, which they’re calling quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal. While the name doesn’t really roll off the tongue, this fourth state of matter could be used to fabricate modern transistors and continue Moore’s Law… possibly indefinitely.

The quasi-three-dimensional electron crystals were discovered in a device scientists cooled at ultra-low temperatures – roughly 100 times colder than intergalactic space. They then exposed it to the most powerful magnetic fields possible on Earth, which made it “pop” from a 2D electron system to a semi-3D one. This fourth state could help improve transistors, allowing for greater density on a single microchip. Looks like Gordon Moore can rest assure that his law won’t be broken for another long while. [Science Blog]

(Note: That’s not a picture of the new state of matter, by the way.)

Thought matter could only come in three flavors—solid, gas and liquid? You’re wrong! McGill University researchers have discovered a new state, which they’re calling quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal. While the name doesn’t really roll off the tongue, this fourth state of matter could be used to fabricate modern transistors and continue Moore’s Law… possibly indefinitely.

The quasi-three-dimensional electron crystals were discovered in a device scientists cooled at ultra-low temperatures – roughly 100 times colder than intergalactic space. They then exposed it to the most powerful magnetic fields possible on Earth, which made it “pop” from a 2D electron system to a semi-3D one. This fourth state could help improve transistors, allowing for greater density on a single microchip. Looks like Gordon Moore can rest assure that his law won’t be broken for another long while. [Science Blog]

(Note: That’s not a picture of the new state of matter, by the way.)

Scientists have connected up the world’s first computer network protected by “quantum cryptography,” a supposedly unbreakable system that functions off a scheme based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. For us non-science folk, that means that you can’t grab information transmitted through the network without disturbing it somehow, making it easy to detect when somebody’s trying to listen in on exchanges.

When intruders do try to hack a quantum exchange, photons in the network become scrambled and the rise in the error rate causes that line to get shut down. The exchange is then automatically rerouted through a different node so that the sender and receiver remain in continuous secure contact. Scientists are currently trying to market it to banks and other holders of sensitive information.

Is it really unbreakable though? Hard to say. Currently there aren’t any methods to fully eavesdrop on information while avoid detection, but researchers at MIT were able to nab about 40% by reading the momentum of photons. I can bet that hackers will be all over this, now that the scientists have more or less issued a direct challenge for them to try. [BBC]

When you’re hard up for just the right graph paper for your project or drawing, you can print out what you need at designer resource site Konigi. The site’s offering of free PDF templates range from straight-up full-page graph paper, to wireframes, storyboards, and storyboard with notes. The templates are especially geared for web and visual designers, and made to scan as well (the title bar and grid lines are non-photo blue). For more ways to put your printer to good use, see our top 10 printable productivity tools.

You might think the history of personal computing is way too complex to explain in under four minutes. But Canadian animators Superbrothers teamed up with singer-songwriter and all-around awesome dude Jim Guthrie to create this amazing music video that’ll prove you wrong. The story: two heavily-pixelated scientists have a dance battle that echoes the transition from primitive ’60s computers to today’s cloud computing. The video is after the jump.

DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION* from superbrothers on Vimeo.[io9]