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The Weekend Edition

Physicists Are 'Breeding' SchröDinger's Cat, And It Could Reveal The Limits of The Quantum World

Bec Crew Sciencealert
May 07, 2017
Physicists have figured out how to 'breed' Schrödinger's cat - an object in a quantum superposition of two states with opposite properties - to produce enlarged versions that could one day reveal the limits of the quantum world.
If they can continue to breed their 'cats' even bigger, the experiment could finally reveal the exact point at which objects switch between classical and quantum physics - the divide between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds that physicists have been chasing for decades.
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The Weekend Edition

Theoretical Physicists Suggest There's A Portal Linking The Standard Model To Dark Physics

Fiona Macdonald Science Alert
March 26, 2017
Theoretical physicists have put forward a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there's a portal that bridges the gap between the standard model to dark matter and dark energy?
The idea is that the reason we struggle to understand things such as dark matter and dark energy isn't because they don't exist - it's because we've been oblivious to a portal through which regular particles and these "dark particles" interact. And it's something that could be tested experimentally.
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Things Are Super Weird Right Now, But It's Not A Glitch In The Matrix, Says Harvard Physicist

Bec Crew
March 06, 2017

If only we were stuck in beta.

 

If the past 12 months have you feeling like you're stuck in the beta version of some giant, buggy simulation, we're right there with you, what with the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Oscars, and depending on which side of the fence you sit, the US and UK elections.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 04, 2016
Extra! Extra! Invoking Maxwell’s demon, scientists at a U.S. government lab say the second law of thermodynamics may not always apply. Neutron stars, bones and pasta apparently have a few things in common, and a Massachusetts biologist is using a “beastcam” to preserve 3D models of all living organisms. We also have some dark  matter news. And you thought Halloween was over, mmmwahahaha!
 
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LED Nobel Illuminates Pioneering GE Research

October 12, 2014
Last October, the biologist and former GE Healthcare chief scientist James Rothman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for solving the mystery of how cells shuttle molecules of insulin and other substances to the right place in the body. This year, two other former GE scientists looking for new sources of light, Bob Hall and Nick Holonyak Jr., almost felt the glow of a Nobel themselves.
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