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Spooky Action Put to Order: Different Types of 'Entanglement' Classified
June 6, 2013 — A property known as "entanglement" is a fundamental characteristic of quantum mechanics. Physicists and mathematicians have now shown how different forms of this phenomenon can be efficiently and ... > full story -
Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years
June 6, 2013 — A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to ... > full story -
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How Young Genes Gain a Toehold on Becoming Indispensable
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have, for the first time, mapped a young gene’s short, dramatic evolutionary journey to becoming essential, or indispensable. The researchers detail one gene’s rapid switch to ... > full story -
Pollution in Northern Hemisphere Helped Cause 1980s African Drought
June 6, 2013 — Air pollution in the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-20th century cooled the upper half of the planet and pushed rain bands south, contributing to the prolonged and worsening drought in Africa's Sahel ... > full story -
MRI Study: Breastfeeding Boosts Babies' Brain Growth
June 6, 2013 — A study using brain images from "quiet" MRI machines adds to the growing body of evidence that breastfeeding improves brain development in infants. Breastfeeding alone produced better brain ... > full story -
2011 Draconid Meteor Shower Deposited a Ton of Meteoritic Material on Earth
June 6, 2013 — About a ton of material coming from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was deposited in the Earth's atmosphere on October 8th and 9th, 2011 during one of the most intense showers of shooting starts in the ... > full story -
Rewinding Development: A Step Forward for Stem Cell Research
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that they can make embryonic stem cells regress to a stage of development where they are able to make placenta cells as well as the other fetal cells. This significant ... > full story -
Promising Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries
June 6, 2013 — Laptops could work longer and electric cars could drive farther if it were possible to further increase the capacity of their lithium-ion batteries. The electrode material has a decisive influence on ... > full story -
Quantum Teleportation Between Atomic Systems Over Long Distances
June 6, 2013 — Researchers have been able to teleport information from light to light at a quantum level for several years. In 2006, researchers succeeded in teleporting between light and gas atoms. Now the ... > full story -
Predicting the Future of Coral Reefs in a Changing World
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have described for the first time the biological process of how corals create their skeletons, which form massive and ecologically vital coral reefs in the world's oceans. They identified ... > full story
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