Science & Technology

Physicists Use Seven-Qubit Quantum Computer to Simulate Scrambling inside Black Holes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 8, 2019
A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of California Berkeley and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has implemented a test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles. The team’s experiment, carried out on a group of seven ions, demonstrated a new way to distinguish between scrambling and true information loss.

By David Aragorn
A CRISPR spin-off causes unintended typos in DNA 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 8, 2019
Gene editors that target DNA bases may not be as safe as thought

By David Aragorn
Japan puts plans for the world’s next big particle collider on hold 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 7, 2019
The proposed accelerator would help physicists study Higgs boson particles in detail

By David Aragorn
Mystery of green icebergs may soon be solved 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 7, 2019
Researchers have proposed a new idea that may explain why some Antarctic icebergs are tinged emerald green rather than the normal blue, potentially solving a decades-long scientific mystery.

By David Aragorn
Meet The Amazing Fungus That Farms Bacteria 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 6, 2019
Humans and animals aren’t the only ones farming – microbes are doing it, too, according to researchers who discovered that a fungus can farm bacteria.

By David Aragorn
Computer servers ‘stranded’ in space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 28, 2019
A pair of Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers sent up to the International Space Station in August 2017 as an experiment have still not come back to Earth, three months after their intended return.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Solve a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 28, 2019
New research reveals that pairs of protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei influence the speed of quarks passing through

By David Aragorn
Are you being scanned? How facial recognition technology follows you, even as you shop 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 26, 2019
As digital billboards record customers’ reactions to advertisements tailored to them, just who is safeguarding Australians’ privacy?

By David Aragorn
Moving artificial leaves out of the lab and into the air 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 22, 2019
Artificial leaves mimic photosynthesis — the process whereby plants use water and carbon dioxide from the air to produce carbohydrates using energy from the sun. But even state-of-the-art artificial leaves, which hold promise in reducing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, only work in the laboratory because they use pure, pressurized carbon dioxide from tanks.

By David Aragorn
Japan Just Shot a Fake Asteroid with a Space Bullet … for Science 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- February 20, 2019
Say you need to prepare to shoot bullets into an asteroid and suck up the debris kicked up from the blast, then tuck it away for safekeeping. There’s no better way than to shoot bullets into a fake asteroid here on Earth and watch what happens in slow motion.

By David Aragorn