Long-lived storage of a photonic qubit for worldwide teleportation
Artist’s view of global teleportation of quantum bits.
Credit: Christoph Hohmann, Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which...
Electrical and chemical coupling between Saturn and its rings
Spacecraft Cassini with an instrument from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics on board (in red circle) passed through Saturn’s atmosphere.
Credit: Artist’s impression: NASA
A...
Dementia on the downslide, especially among people with more education, study finds
The percentage of American seniors with dementia is dropping, a new study finds.
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In a hopeful sign for the health of...
Mammals switched to daytime activity after dinosaur extinction
Female mountain gorilla. The ancestors of simian primates -- such as gorillas, gibbons and tamarins -- were among the first to give up nocturnal...
Odors that carry social cues seem to affect volunteers on the autism spectrum differently
Skydivers provided the smell of fear for investigating how autistic men react to odors. (Stock image)
Credit: © Joggie Botma / Fotolia
Autism typically involves the...
Anticipated social media buzz can drive tourism
The number of likes, shares, comments and positive feedback travelers expect to get on social media can affect where they choose to go, say...
Nature or nurture? Innate social behaviors in the mouse brain
Black mouse ready to fight. Fighting behaviors and the neurons that represent them are not as fixed as previously believed.
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Adult...
Revising the story of the dispersal of modern humans across Eurasia
Map of sites and postulated migratory pathways associated with modern humans dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene.
Credit: Bae et al. 2017. On the...
Separated since the dinosaurs, bamboo-eating lemurs, pandas share common gut microbes
A new study from North Carolina State University, the Smithsonian and Duke University finds that bamboo lemurs, giant pandas and red pandas share 48...
How much can 252-million-year-old ecosystems tell us about modern Earth? A lot
Nanoposts of varying shapes can act as pixels in two different holograms.
Credit: Andrei Faraon/Caltech
A team at Caltech has figured out a way to encode...
Electromagnetic water cloak eliminates drag and wake
A schematic for a prototype of the proposed water cloaking device. It consists of wires and coils that create an electromagnetic field that acts...
