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			<title><![CDATA[Quantum Computer Built Inside a Diamond]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/1126/quantum-computer-built-inside-a-diamond/]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/img/news/listing/1126.jpg" alt="The diamond in the center measures 1 mm X 1 mm. Photo courtesy of Delft University of Technolgy/UC Santa Barbara." title="The diamond in the center measures 1 mm X 1 mm. Photo courtesy of Delft University of Technolgy/UC Santa Barbara." /> Diamonds are forever&nbsp;&mdash; or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be.
A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum computer  in a diamond, the first of its kind to include...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[USC Scientists Contribute to a Breakthrough in Quantum Computing]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/984/usc-scientists-contribute-to-a-breakthrough-in-quantum-computing/]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/img/news/listing/984.jpg" alt="Quantum computing uses quantum bits, or qubits, to encode information in the form of ones and zeros." title="Quantum computing uses quantum bits, or qubits, to encode information in the form of ones and zeros." /> Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing,  which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is  processed.
Quantum computers will capitalize on the mind-bending properties of  quantum...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Water’s Surface Not All Wet]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/img/news/listing/966.jpg" alt="Alexander Benderskii, associate professor of chemistry and senior author of the new study in &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt;." title="Alexander Benderskii, associate professor of chemistry and senior author of the new study in &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt;." /> Some water molecules split the difference between gas and liquid, a study in <em>Nature</em> shows.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:08:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Peeling off the Layers]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/img/news/listing/930.jpg" alt="USC Dornsife's Meghan Miller of earth sciences explains her discovery of active delamination beneath the Earth in the Colorado Plateau — research featured today in &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt;. Photo by Pamela J. Johnson" title="USC Dornsife's Meghan Miller of earth sciences explains her discovery of active delamination beneath the Earth in the Colorado Plateau — research featured today in &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt;. Photo by Pamela J. Johnson" /> USC Dornsife assistant professor Meghan Miller’s important discovery beneath the Earth’s surface has been published today in <em>Nature</em>.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rock 'n' Research]]></title>
			<link><![CDATA[http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/752/rock-n-research/]]></link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/img/news/listing/752.jpg" alt="Scott Paterson, professor of earth sciences in USC College, shows a student how to use a Brunton compass to measure rocks that have aligned minerals or layering, during a recent trip in Yosemite National Park. Photo courtesy of Scott Paterson." title="Scott Paterson, professor of earth sciences in USC College, shows a student how to use a Brunton compass to measure rocks that have aligned minerals or layering, during a recent trip in Yosemite National Park. Photo courtesy of Scott Paterson." /> Undergraduate Team Research (UTR) in USC College's Department of Earth Sciences takes students in various disciplines to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Washington Cascades, Joshua Tree National Park and Inner Mongolia, China.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 6 May 2010 10:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Searching for Genes Behind a Trait]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/img/news/listing/702.jpg" alt="Magnus Nordborg of molecular and computational biology is the senior author of the study, and postdoctoral researcher Susanna Atwell is the co-first author." title="Magnus Nordborg of molecular and computational biology is the senior author of the study, and postdoctoral researcher Susanna Atwell is the co-first author." /> A method pioneered to find the genetic basis of human diseases also holds promise for locating the genes behind important traits in plants, according to a study published online on March 24 by the journal Nature.
A large team led...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:33:00 -0500</pubDate>
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