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New Insights Into the Remote Control of Quantum Systems
An international collaboration led by physicists of the University of Vienna shines new light on the question of the...
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It Takes a Cooperative to Raise a Child
The supply of children in U.S. foster care far exceeds the demand for their adoption. Indeed, only one in...
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Mysterious Black Hole Type Perplexes, Bewilders
Billions of times the mass of our own sun, so-called massive black holes present a baffling mystery with clues...
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Evolving a Green High-Rise
Check out this high-rise in France’s Boulogne-Billancourt re-imagined as an urban eco-village, bursting with greenery. The Natural Evolution building...
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Star’s ‘Cry’ Heralds New Era for Testing Relativity
Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a...
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A Step-By-Step Guide to the Mars Rover Landing Plan
At 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, after nearly nine months of travel, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (with...
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Immortality Studies Centered at UC Riverside Get $5-Million Gift
Even a multimillion-dollar donation does not ensure a spot in heaven. Or at least that’s what most religions believe....
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Dust Dominates Foreign Aerosol Imports to North America
NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of tiny airborne particles...
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Celebrating Impractical Physicists
Do you think cutting-edge scientists should earn as much as star athletes, celebrity artists or Wall Street bankers? The...
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Sediment Cores From Antarctic Seabed Reveal Ancient Rain Forest
Drilling of the seabed off Antarctica has revealed that rainforest grew on the frozen continent 52 million years ago,...