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Higgs Boson calculations add up to new Armageddon scenario
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-02-20 06:20
Anyone who thinks the end is nigh with a giant asteroid colliding into Earth may have a new apocalypse scenario to worry about.
It all boils down to the Higgs Boson particle, aka the "God particle."
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Scientists Create 'Building Block' of Quantum Networks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-02-08 06:11
Presenting the device February 8, in the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society's New Journal of Physics, it has been described as the "building block of future quantum networks."
In an optical quantum network, information is carried between points by photons -- the basic unit of light. There is a huge potential for this type of network in the field of quantum computing and could enable computers that are millions of times faster at solving certain problems than what we are used to today.
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How to use Amazon Cloud supercomputers to view molecules in remarkable detail
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-02-06 06:38
Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers have shared a how-to secret for biologists: code for Amazon Cloud that significantly reduces the time necessary to process data-intensive microscopic images.
The method promises to speed research into the underlying causes of disease by making single-molecule microscopy of practical use for more laboratories.
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A Hacked Database Prompts Debate about Genetic Privacy
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-02-05 18:42
Linking a human genome in an anonymous sequencing database to its real-world counterpart wasn’t supposed to be possible.
Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, apparently never got the memo. In the end all it took him and M.I.T. undergraduate student Melissa Gymrek to decipher the identity of 50 individuals whose DNA is available online in free-access databases was a computer and an Internet connection.
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This Weird Crystal Demonstrates a New Magnetic Behavior that Works Like Magic
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-12-21 00:35
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new state of matter with a new kind of magnetism. This new state, called a quantum spin liquid (QSL), could lead to significant advances in data storage. QSLs also exhibit a quantum phenomenon called long-range entanglement, which could lead to new types of communications systems, and more.
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