Physicists Demonstrate Qubit-Qutrit Entanglement
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For the first time, physicists have entangled a qubit with a “qutrit” – the 3D version of the 2D qubit. Qubit-qutrit entanglement could lead to advantages in quantum computing, such as increased security and more efficient ...
Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seeds
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Feb 26, 2008 |
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from ...
Supercomputer Unleashes Virtual 9.0 Megaquake in Pacific Northwest
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2008 |
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On January 26, 1700, at about 9 p.m. local time, the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the ocean in the Pacific Northwest suddenly moved, slipping some 60 feet eastward beneath the North American plate in a monster ...
Centuries-old Maya Blue mystery finally solved
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts ...
First Glimpse of Star Flip
Feb 26, 2008 |
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An international team of astrophysicists has, for the first time, discovered a star other than the Sun flipping its north and south magnetic poles.
AMD, Partners Produce Test Chip Using EUV Lithography
Feb 26, 2008 |
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AMD, working together with its research partner, IBM, announced it has produced a working test chip utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography for the critical first layer of metal connections across the entire chip. ...
Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the Sky
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Diamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are perfect for scouting them, say scientists at the NASA Ames Research ...
Nanoemulsion vaccines show increasing promise
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 26, 2008 |
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A novel technique for vaccinating against a variety of infectious diseases – using an oil-based emulsion placed in the nose, rather than needles – has proved able to produce a strong immune response against ...
The next-best thing to being on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Last week, two MIT students began living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat where eight people are spending ...
Swift satellite images a galaxy ablaze with starbirth
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Combining 39 individual frames taken over 11 hours of exposure time, NASA astronomers have created this ultraviolet mosaic of the nearby "Triangulum Galaxy." "This is the most detailed ultraviolet image of ...
Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic
Feb 26, 2008 |
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MIT biologists have provoked soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a new type of antibiotic by pitting them against another strain of bacteria in a battle for survival.
Penn researchers engineer first system of human nerve-cell tissue
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damaged ...
Killer Electrons Surf Celestial Tsunamis
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2008 |
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It's as if we took a trip into space with our best friends, and they turned into mutants and attacked us. Electrons are the best friends we've ever had from the subatomic world. We harness their flow as electricity ...
Who benefits from antidepressants?
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 26, 2008 |
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A new study published today in PLoS Medicine suggests that antidepressants only benefit some, very severely depressed patients.
Scientists create artificial 'cells' that boost the immune response to cancer
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a rapid and efficient way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for ...
