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Report says physicists in China have teleported two quantum properties of a photon for the first time. And they say that, in principle, their approach could work for other properties as well. So are we getting close to the teleportation of all quantum properties of a photon, or of an electron for that matter? And then entire atoms perhaps? I would imagine doing this is still way in the future. Still, it's amazing to think it may be possible. Link: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/first-teleportation-of-multiple-quantum-properties-of-a-single-photon-7c1e61598565

I recently have been researching Quantum Computing for an article I was writing. It's amazing how far along it has come. Google just recently hired Dr. Martinis from the University of California, Santa Barbara to help develop and working Quantum Computer. Google has been working with the DWave Two, but there is some controversy as to whether or not that is a fully quantum computer (it very likely is only quasi-quantum). This is a pretty cool development because there are all kinds of problems that could benefit from quantum computers. Problems that would take classical computers thousands of years. Just cool stuff. Google Leaps Into Quantum Computing (click at the top t…

This doesn`t actually sounds like a news but I still post it here because I get to know it from a newspaper. I think most of the members might have known this project. You can sign up for a boarding pass to get your name on a trip on the Orion testing module on-board the Delta IV Heavy rocket. After the landing scheduled at The pacific ocean transfer near California, your journey haven`t ended. Your name will continue to fly on subsequent Orion spacecraft in the future which is going to on-board the Space Launch System(SLS) by NASA. You collect points along the journey. For the Orion Flight Test, the point is 60000 miles. The website is go.usa.gov/vcpz …

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/ "Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy". I don't know I'd call that chemistry, but congratulations nonetheless! http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2014/advanced-chemistryprize2014.pdf

with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29504761 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2014/press.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2014/advanced-medicineprize2014.pdf

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources” http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/advanced.html /aside I do remember the glee when I found that the on/off light of my ps2 was a blue led

Regeneration like Wolverine may be on the verge of being VERY possible! What Is DARPA? Before going on to the project itself, let us look over at DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Formed in 1958, they have been funding many major technological developments for this long time. Though their main aim is to help the military sector of USA, their projects have helped the whole world too. Recently, the American government has invested $73.8 million in a biotechnology research program. This allowed DARPA and its researchers are going to carry on with research. Project ElectRx The project’s name is ElectRx... Read more. url deleted - rule 2.7 Like…

Cloaking device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects: http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/watch-rochester-cloak-uses-ordinary-lenses-to-hide-objects-across-continuous-range-of-angles-70592/ It struck me that this work may just be an ingenious application of a well known principle of optics design. Most good lenses used in photography have variable diaphrams placed somewhere between the optical elements. When you take a picture the lens's aperture or diaphram is "invisible" in that it doesn't show up in the image. Only the scene that lays in front of the first lens appears in the image that is focussed on the film or digital sensor.

Hello. My name is Roger Pink and I'm a physicist and a science writer. This is an article I wrote on the SpaceX Falcon 9. If you're interested, please give it a read and let me know what you think below in the comments here. SpaceX Falcon 9 Here is an excerpt: The current Falcon 9, known as the Falcon 9 v1.1, introduced several improvements. It is heavier at 1,115,200 pounds and taller at 224 feet, though it still measures 12 feet in diameter. The extra height and weight are due to the additional fuel required by its nine improved Merlin 1D engines that are arranged in what SpaceX calls an Octaweb configuration. In this configuration, eight of the nine engines…

This new laser weapon works in fog, rain and other laser unfriendly conditions... http://www.gizmag.com/boeing-laser-directed-energy-weapon-fog/33672/

Here is the relevant page: http://www.macfound.org/fellows/927/ Of course, congratulations are in order for all of the 2014 Fellows, but Dr. Zhang's story in particular is pretty awesome. Edit: Just to elaborate without forcing a read-through of the first link, Zhang had a difficult time of things after earning his Ph.D. After years of working in various non-academic jobs (e.g. as an accountant, delivery man, and Subway sandwich artist), he landed a position at the University of New Hampshire in 1999. In 2013 he achieved fame in the mathematics community for proving that there exist infinitely many pairs of prime numbers differing by at most 70,000,000. This was the fir…

Two vaccines for Ebola have been fast-tracked by WHO. Which one seems more effective? One is an rVSV (replication competent) retroviral vaccine, the other is a replication incompetent (chimp adenovirus) ChAd vaccine. http://www.dddmag.com/articles/2014/09/two-anti-ebola-vaccines-historic-race http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3702.html http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_3/S1075.full

Low Earth Orbits start at 160 km. These aircraft fly at about 20 km. Pictures of the earth can have160/20 = 8 times the resolution of satellite pictures. That can make Google maps better. IDK if that is a reason for their buying the company, but it seems likely.

http://foxweekly.com/2014/09/11/science/nasa-scientist-says-solar-storm-could-detonate-nuclear-weapons.html Saw this on fox weekly and didn't see anyone post it yet. People on 4chan and reddit are saying this could lead to a nuclear confrontation? your thoughts..

Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter. The researchers are not shining light through crystal -- they are transforming light into crystal. As part of an effort to develop exotic materials such as room-temperature superconductors, the researchers have locked together photons, the basic element of light, so that they become fixed in place. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140909130810.htm I saw this in the news today and thought it was rather interesting. In the article an "artificial atom" made of 100 billion atoms is described. Can someone explai…

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As this trend continues, corporations will be able to make less and less expensive products by replacing payed employees with less expensive robot labor. With fewer employees there will be fewer people able to buy expensive things; thus, the less expensive products are necessary to offset less paid employment. Will the reduced cost of things outpace less pay, so that the majority of people better off economically, or will fewer people be able to afford the necessities of life? How will this trend affect politics, will conservatives decide social programs are necessary to support more and more unemployed people, or will unemployed and underemployed people become an ever la…

Not just a new species but possibly a new phylum... Puzzling New Animals Look Like Deep-Sea Mushrooms http://www.livescience.com/47668-weird-species-deep-sea-mushroom.html

This seems promising: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/08August/Pages/Common-bacteria-could-help-prevent-food-allergies.aspx Also here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28887088 The horizon documentary about research on the link between changes to our exposure to bacteria and the increase of allergies in the west was also very interesting, probably only available in the UK though? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g507y

While a few of these seem to be a stretch to have 13 on the list for 2013, the list includes some important milestones. One of my favorites is pumping ocean water using wave power through a reverse osmosis filter to make fresh water; I hope it is an economic and technical success. If so, perhaps wave power can be used to pump water to make electricity.

The printer is not perfected, but a bit engineering and it can IMO make things with more accuracy. People might start building glass houses in deserts, for almost nothing...the cost of a 3D printer and labor. The printer can make glass bricks, and someone can stack them to make the walls of a house. The bricks could be made to form a dome or half cylinder roof instead of using long beams and flat or sloped roof. Interlocking bricks could eliminate the need for mortar, yet keep air tight joints between bricks. It would be possible to print double or triple pane windows. Glass houses would be best in areas where there are no rocks.

Im sure a lot of you are familiar with the news of the discovery that a mega-ocean has been found beneath the Earth's surface. The question is how did this ocean get there if it was not possible for water to condense at such a high rate with the temperatures under the Earth's surface constantly evaporating the water. Thinking about this question makes me think that it could of been a giant hydrogen and oxygen reaction, combusted by the earth's flammable insides.. (impossible to create so much water ) (Jimmy, 13, London)

With a new source of free information with global access, it might change the world. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-g-outernet-explained-20140808-htmlstory.html Will the internet become a utility rather than a product of a corrupt system of Isp's(sarcasm)? What do you think?

It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us—which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold—may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, and often are driving us toward obesity. In an article published this week in the journal BioEssays, researchers from UC San Francisco, Arizona State University and University of New Mexico concluded from a review of the recent scientific literature that microbes influence human eating behavior and dietary choices to favor consumption of the particular nutrients they grow best on, rather than simply passively living off whatever nutrients we choose to send their way....…

One of the mysteries of the deepest branch of life may be solved. Why Archaea and bacteria are different and how they got that way is being studied by University College London - UCL. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121731.htm?