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Submission + - Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers (sciencedaily.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: "Scientists from around the world have collaborated to achieve quantum teleportation over 143 kilometers in free space . Quantum information was sent between the Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife. Quantum teleportation is not how it is made out in Star Trek though. Instead of sending an object (in this case a photon) from one location to another; the information of its quantum state is sent, making a photon on the other end look identical to the original .'Teleportation across 143 kilometres is a crucial milestone in this research, since that is roughly the minimum distance between the ground and orbiting satellites.' It is the hope of the research team that this experiment will lead to commercial use of quantum teleportation to interact with satellites and ground stations. This will increase the efficiency of satellite communication and help with the expansion of quantum internet usage. The full paper on the experiment can be found in the journal Nature here."

Submission + - World Record Light Pulse Recorded (sciencedaily.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: "Researchers at the University of Central Florida have created the shortest laser pulse ever recorded, lasting only 67 attoseconds. An attosecond is a mere quintillionith of a single second (1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000). The record breaking project was run by UCF Professor Zenghu Chang, using an extreme ultraviolet laser pulse. "'Dr. Chang's success in making ever-shorter light pulses helps open a new door to a previously hidden world, where we can watch electrons move in atoms and molecules, and follow chemical reactions as they take place,' said Michael Johnson, the dean of the UCF College of Sciences and a physicist." Its hoped that theses short laser blast will pave the way to better understand quantum mechanics in ways we have never before witnessed. In 2008 the previous record was set at 80-arroseconds, the pulse created at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany."
Space

Submission + - Space Sugar Discovered in Binary System Star (msn.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: "Sweet tooths rejoice! 400 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, sugar molecules have been confirmed in a gas cloud surrounding a young star. The star, IRAS 16293-2422, though early in its life is relativity close to the size of our Sun. It is part of a Binary star system. "'In the disk of gas and dust surrounding this newly formed star, we found glycolaldehyde, which is a simple form of sugar, not much different to the sugar we put in coffee,' study lead author Jes Jorgensen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, said in a statement." Glycolaldehyde has been found before in space, but never this close to a Sun-like planet. In fact "the molecules are about the same distance away from the star as the planet Uranus is from our sun." This discovery proves that the building blocks of life could have possibly existed in the earlier parts of our own solar system. This particular sugar reacts with propenal to form ribose, which is a major component for organic life on Earth."
Science

Submission + - Disney Uses Plants to Make Music (msn.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: "Designers of Disney Research in Pittsburgh Pa, have turned the average household plant into a musical device and remote control. Called the Botanicus Interacticus project, this new program can turn any household plant into touch-sensitive computer system. "The system is built upon capacitive touch sensing — the principle used on touchscreens in smartphones and tablets — but instead of sensing electrical signals at a single frequency, it monitors capacitive signals across a broad range of frequencies. It’s called Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing." This works by putting a pulsating electrode into the soil around a plant, which excites the plant, making any touch to the parts of the plant a repayable signal. The signal could be translated to do or mean anything . This could mean soon swatting at your household plant could change the television channel or turn up the volume."
Science

Submission + - DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound (wired.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is known for making odd scientific advances ranging from hypersonic unnamed rockets to bionic prosthetic limbs to insect-sized reconnaissance drones. But recently DARPA has made a interesting advancement in the field of fire suppression. Using two speakers arranged on either side of an open liquid fuel flame, an acoustic field was emitted and engulfed the fire. "The sound increases air velocity, which then thins the area of the flame where combustion occurs, known as the flame boundary." This make the flame weak and much easier to douse. Another wonderful thing about this, its not even that loud! DARPA began its testing in 2008, stating that despite extensive research in this area, there have been no new methods for extinguishing and/or manipulating fire in almost 50 years.” The agency plans to expand on this experiment and try to make it successful on a practical scale."
Science

Submission + - New Nanodevice Creates a Near Perfect Electron Stream (sciencedaily.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: Scientists from the National Physics Laboratory of the United Kingdom have teamed up with the University of Cambridge to create a new electron pump that creates a single electron stream. "The device drives electrical current by manipulating individual electrons, one-by-one at very high speed." The pump takes single electrons, and pushes it over a barrier with an indent for the electron to fall into, and is then sent to the opposite side of the barrier with astounding precision. "By employing this technique, the team were able to pump almost a billion electrons per second, 300 times faster than the previous record for an accurate electron pump set at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the USA in 1996." Although the current was very small (150 picoamperes), this event could cause a shift from the convention ampere measure of current to a smaller, more precise unit of measurement for electrical current.
Science

Submission + - The "Bucky Ball Creation" Mystery Solved (livescience.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: Since 1985, scientists have been trying to determine how Buckyballs (scientifically named Buckminsterfullerene ) are created. They are molecules with the formula C60 (a fullerene ) that forms a hexagonal sphere of interlocking carbon atoms. "But how these often highly symmetric, beautiful molecules with extremely fascinating properties form in the first place has been a mystery." For over three decades the creation of these molecules have baffled the scientific community. Recently Florida State University, in cooperation with MagLab in Tallahassee Fl. have looked deeper into the creation process and determined their origin. It was already known the the process for buckyball creation was under highly energetic conditions over an instant, “We started with a paste of pre-existing fullerene molecules mixed with carbon and helium, shot it with a laser, and instead of destroying the fullerenes we were surprised to find they’d actually grown.” The fullerenes were able to absorb and incorporate carbon from the surrounding gas. This study will help to illuminate the path towards carbon nanotechnology and extraterrestrial environmental studies, due to buckyball's abundance in extrasolar clouds.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Unvailes New Ipad Challenging Tablet (nytimes.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: Microsoft today unveiled its newest piece of technology; The Surface Tablet, a tablet computer meant to challenge the popular Ipad computers created by Apple. The company showed off a tablet that is about the same weight and thickness as an iPad, with a 10.6-inch screen. "The device has a built-in “kickstand” that allows it to be propped up for watching movies, and a thin detachable cover that will serve double duty as a keyboard." The tablet will run a version of Microsoft 8 with the intention of companion hardware being used for innovations on the product. The presentation of the new tablet was to the way in which Apple traditionally opens a new product; giving the media only a few days notice and withholding the exact location of the announcement until only hours before presenting. The announcement thus far has not affected Microsoft stock.
Science

Submission + - New 'Beautiful' Particle Discovered at LHC (forbes.com) 1

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SchrodingerZ writes: On the search for the imfamous Higg Boson, "Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters claiming that they’d discovered a new Baryon particle." It is composed of a strange quark, a beauty quark, and an up or down quark. It was given the notation Xi_b^*0. The discovery of this new particle helps to solidify the " validity of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and helps contribute to our understanding of atomic interactions."
Australia

Submission + - Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II (bbc.co.uk)

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SchrodingerZ writes: Just in time to miss the 100 year anniversary of the fatal voyage of the Titanic; Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer announced he has plans to recreate the Titanic, calling it Titanic II. "It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic but of course it will have state-of-the-art 21st Century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems," says Palmer. He stated it was to be as close to the original as possible, with some modern adjustments. Its maiden voyage is set for 2016.
ISS

Submission + - "Space Freighter" blasts off to Internation Space Station (bbc.co.uk)

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SchrodingerZ writes: An ATV "Space truck" has launched today from Kourou base in French Guiana to the International Space Station. "The robotic truck is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) with new supplies of food, water, air, and fuel." It launched at 04:34 GMT for a 63 minute flight into orbit. At 20 tonnes, the ATV is the biggest ship servicing the station now that the US shuttles have been retired . The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) launched with a Ariane 5 carrier rocket, it is the "third such craft to be sent to the station by Esa (European Space Agency)" and is the third to be launched thus far. It will dock with the ISS night of the 28th and 29th, Paris time.
Science

Submission + - W Boson mass found, leads way to Higgs Boson (sciencedaily.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: Scientists have deduced the “world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W Boson,one of nature's elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.” This new number (80375 +-23 MeV/c2 by the way) puts more constraint on the mass of the theorized http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ideas/higgs.html"> Higgs Boson Particle ,which is theorized to give mass to all other things, completing the http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Science/StandardModel-en.html"> standard model .“Scientists employ two techniques to find the hiding place of the Higgs particle: the direct production of Higgs particles and precision measurements of other particles and forces that could be influenced by the existence of a Higgs particle.”
Space

Submission + - Seattle Museum gets Soyuz capsule for display (nwsource.com)

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SchrodingerZ writes: Seattle billionaire Charles Simonyi has generously donated a Russian Soyuz re-entry capsule to the Museum of Flight in Tukwila Washington (just south of Seattle) which was set out on display last Friday . Simonyi flew in this capsule in 2009 to the International Space Station, making him the world's fifth "space tourist." He has already donated over $3 million to the vast collection of planes and avionics to open the museum's latest wing; the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, which will house both the capsule and a Space Shuttle training vehicle later this year.

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