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A New Order in the Quantum World
Both high-valued diamond and low-prized graphite consist of exactly the same carbon atoms. The subtle but nevertheless important difference...
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World Record for the Entanglement of Twisted Light Quanta
A research team led by the University of Vienna has developed a new method for entangling single photons that...
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Curiosity Rover Gulps Mars Air, Finds Hint of Vanished Atmosphere
NASA’s Curiosity rover has gulped in Martian air but failed to find methane – a gas linked to living...
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It Took Sandy for the U.S. to Debate Science
Until this week climate change was sadly absent from the presidential election discourse, even though scientific reports have linked...
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Asteroid Belts Could Show Us Where Intelligent Life Is Hiding
If we want to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it might be wise to look for stars...
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The First All-Carbon Solar Cell
Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive...
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Will Hurricane Sandy Be Our Wake-Up Call?
We’ve had two once-in-a-century storms within a decade. Hurricane Sandy seems likely to become the second-costliest storm in U.S....
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First Stars’ Light Seen Through Extragalactic Fog
Light from the very first stars in the universe has been measured – and there is less of it...
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NASA’s Fermi Helps Calculate Number of Stars in Universe
Astronomers have measured the background light from all the stars in the cosmos and inferred the number of stars...
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The Higgs, Boltzmann Brains, and Monkeys Typing Hamlet
Amir D. Aczel blogs about physics and cosmology for Discover’s Crux: If somebody told you that there are angels...