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The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip
By the Editor on August 6, 2013
Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic...
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The Era of Memory Engineering Has Arrived
By the Editor on August 5, 2013
It’s the premise of every third sci-fi thriller. Man wakes up to his normal seeming life, but of course...
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Neuromorphic computing: The machine of a new soul
By the Editor on August 5, 2013
ANALOGIES change. Once, it was fashionable to describe the brain as being like the hydraulic systems employed to create...
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Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
By the Editor on August 5, 2013
If physicists had a holy grail it would go by the name of Quantum Gravity. For 60 years researchers...
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What We Can Learn From the Quantum Calculations of Birds and Bacteria
By the Editor on August 1, 2013
As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics....
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Big Bang Light Reveals Minimum Lifetime of Photons
By the Editor on July 31, 2013
The notion of the speed of light as the cosmic speed limit is based on the assumption that particles...
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What Makes Something A ‘New’ Language?
By the Editor on July 31, 2013
For linguists, Light Warlpiri provides a unique opportunity to study the creation of a new language — one that...
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Mass extinctions: Small but deadly
By the Editor on July 29, 2013
AS EVERY schoolchild knows, the dinosaurs were wiped out in an instant, when a rock from outer space hit...
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DNA storage: The code that could save civilisation
By the Editor on July 29, 2013
Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick Goldman can remember exactly how they came up with the idea of storing all...
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Lightning
By Michael Bath on July 25, 2013
Summer is the time of mounting cumulus clouds, the sharp claps and growling rumble of thunder, and the shock...
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