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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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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...
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Technology Close to Cracking Oldest Undeciphered Writing System
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have created a technique called reflectance transformation imaging...
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Remembering Paul Kurtz
Herb Silverman for On Faith’s Guest Voices, reflecting on the life and contributions of Paul Kurtz, who died October...
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David Deutsch: Constructor Theory
There’s a notorious problem with defining information within physics, namely that on the one hand information is purely abstract,...
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Breakthrough Offers New Route to Large-Scale Quantum Computing
In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow...
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Digging Up the Early Universe
Cosmologists are uncovering relics from the dawn of time, letting them look back almost all the way to the...
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No, Global Warming Hasn’t ‘Stopped’
A recent article, in the London tabloid Daily Mail, reports: “The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago,...
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A Nobel That Points Us Toward Our Quantum Future
Scientists like to think that true measures of our understanding are our ability to predict something, and, in experimental...