Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication For The First Time

Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication - a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. Theoretical physicists have long proposed that such a form of communication would be possible, but now, for...
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Scientists Are at a Loss to Explain This Mysterious Cosmic Radio Signal

There are now 22 of them, and we still have no idea what they are, what they mean, or where in the Universe they come from - fast radio bursts, those brilliant bursts of energy that last mere milliseconds, but are a billion timesmore luminous than anything we’ve seen in...
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Earth’s forests grew 9% in a new satellite survey

The Age of Exploration may be long past, but even in the 21st century, our maps can still get a major update. Using satellite imagery, a new study has found hidden forests all over the world—almost enough for a second Amazon—in areas with little moisture known as drylands. Past estimates...
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A New Dinosaur Fossil Found in Alberta Is So Well-Preserved It Looks Like a Statue

Before being assembled into something recognisable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone. The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so...
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Carl Sagan – You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot)

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan’s suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet....
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Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 Launch Webcast (Live Now)

SpaceX is targeting launch of Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 51-minute launch window opens on Monday, May 15, at 7:20 p.m. EDT, or 23:20 UTC. A backup launch window opens on Tuesday, May 16, at 7:20 p.m. EDT,...
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For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic ‘Bridge’ Between Galaxies

For the first time, scientists have detected evidence of a magnetic field that’s associated with the vast intergalactic ’bridge’ that links our two nearest galactic neighbours. Known as the Magellanic Bridge, the bridge is a huge stream of neutral gas that stretches some 75,000 light-years between our two neighbouring galaxies,...
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New 3D-Printed Ovaries Have Allowed Infertile Mice to Give Birth

Human trials are on the cards. Infertile mice have been given the ability to birth healthy offspring, thanks to new 3D-printed ovaries that connected with the animals’ blood supply in just one week, and started releasing eggs. Researchers now plan on testing these artificial ovaries in pigs, and if all...
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Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space

Forget fuel-powered jet engines. We’re on the verge of having aircraft that can fly from the ground up to the edge of space using air and electricity alone. Traditional jet engines create thrust by mixing compressed air with fuel and igniting it. The burning mixture expands rapidly and is blasted...
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A Bioengineered 'Pancreas' Has Ended One Diabetic's Need For Insulin

Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time.

If a treatment only works temporarily, it has little chance of making a significant difference in the lives of patients, which is why the latest news from the University of Miami's Diabetes Research Institute is so exciting.

A year after transplanting insulin-producing islet cells into the omentum of a woman with a particularly unwieldy form of type 1 diabetes, the cells continue to operate as hoped.

She no longer needs to receive insulin via injections or an insulin pump and is in good health....
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This New Device Can Hear The Actual Sounds Made by Individual Cells

Engineers have created a nano-sized optical fibre that can sense impossibly small forces, from the turbulence generated by swimming bacteria to the sound waves made by the beating of heart cells. Sensing in biological systems could even allow us to monitor individual cells and alert us to the subtle process...
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Astronomers scramble as ‘alien megastructure’ star dims again

The most famously weird star in our galaxy is acting up again. On Friday, 19 May, Tabby’s star began to dim, carrying on a history of mysterious dips in brightness. Astronomers are scrambling to point as many telescopes as possible at the star, which is 1,300 light-years away in the...
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Now Artificial Intelligence Is Inventing Sounds That Have Never Been Heard Before

As well as beating us at board games, driving cars, and spotting cancer, artificial intelligence is now generating brand new sounds that have never been heard before, thanks to some advanced maths combined with samples from real instruments. Before long, you might hear some of these fresh sounds pumping out...
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Scientists Assert That We Will Make Contact With Aliens in the Next Decade

Technical advances in space exploration and science are driving the increased likelihood of making contact with extraterrestrial life. Contact with alien life, especially if it happens soon, has the potential to transform humanity entirely. Both the most cynical person on Earth and the world’s greatest optimist could easily look at...
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Scientists Have Discovered a ‘Puffy’ Exoplanet With The Density of Styrofoam

The Universe just keeps on getting stranger. Astronomers have found a giant exoplanet larger than Jupiter, but with extremely low mass - a composition that gives this mysterious ’puffy planet’ a density very similar to styrofoam. The team who found KELT-11b, which orbits a star located about 320 light-years from Earth,...
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The Doomsday Clock (Infographic)

The Doomsday Clock is now at 2 ½ minutes to midnight, or nuclear disaster. But what does this really mean, and is the Doomsday Clock a useful tool?
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Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light

Please welcome to the stage a master illusionist. An energy beam that stabs out of galaxy M87 like a toothpick in a cocktail olive is pulling off the ultimate magic trick: seeming to move faster than the speed of light. Almost five times faster, in fact, as measured by the...
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Scientists Have Stabilised a One-Dimensional Metallic Material in a World-First Experiment

It’s one atom thick. Researchers have constructed the world’s thinnest metallic nanowire, creating a stable string of the chemical element tellurium, that measures just one atom thick. The team behind the nanowire says the material is the most precisely configured ’one-dimensional’ system yet, and the technique used to produce the...
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Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world

Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster. In the early hours of the morning, the Soviet Union’s early-warning systems detected an incoming missile strike from the United States. Computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched. The protocol for the Soviet military...
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