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Ignorance will always grow faster than knowledge. Scientists and laypeople alike would agree that for all we have come to know, there is far more we don’t know. More important, everyday there is far more we know we don’t know. One crucial outcome of scientific knowledge is to generate new and better ways of being…
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 resources required for achieving quantum information processing. The scientists demonstrate that less demanding resources, which are easier to prepare and to control, can be used for quantum-enhanced technologies. In the experiment, which is published in Nature…
Ancient Life ‘Re-Evolves’ in Georgia Lab
Georgia Tech researchers say they’ve resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. The resurrected bacterium has been growing for more than 1,000 generations, providing scientists a chance to observe evolution in action, the university announced. “This is as close as we can get to rewinding and…
The Big Snap
How’s it all going to end? Being a cosmologist, I’m not talking about our new year, but about our universe, billions of years from now. This question has gotten me worrying about what I call the Big Snap. The usual suspects for our upcoming “cosmochalypse” are the Big Chill, the Big Crunch, and the Big…
Gene Predicts Happiness in Women
A new study has found a gene that appears to make women happy, but it doesn’t work for men. The finding may help explain why women are often happier than men, the research team said. Scientists at the University of South Florida, the National Institutes of Health, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric…
‘Selfish’ DNA Discovered in Animal Mitochondria
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered, for the first time in any animal species, a type of “selfish” mitochondrial DNA that is actually hurting the organism and lessening its chance to survive — and bears a strong similarity to some damage done to human cells as they age. The findings, published in the journal…