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Chinese Satellite Is One Giant Step For the Quantum Internet
China is poised to launch the world's first satellite designed to do quantum experiments. A fleet of quantum-enabled craft is likely to follow.
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Chinese Scientists to Pioneer First Human Crispr Trial
Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique.
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Human Brain Mapped in nprecedented Detail
Think of a spinning globe and the patchwork of countries it depicts: such maps help us to understand where we are, and that nations differ from one another.
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Atom Wranglers Create Rewritable Memory
Engineers can only stuff so much computing power into devices like smartphones and tablets before they run up against physical barriers.
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How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl.
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Brain-Data Gold Mine Could Reveal How Neurons Compute
Inspired by the large-scale sky surveys with which astronomers explore the cosmos, neuroscientists in Seattle, Washington, have spent four years systematically...
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Clouds Get High on Climate Change
Clouds are moving up, up and away. An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s, clouds have shifted towards Earth's poles and cloud tops...
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Obama's Top Scientist Talks Shrinking Budgets, Donald Trump, and His Biggest Regret
John Holdren is no stranger to the spotlight. Over his long career in science, Holdren—a physicist by training—has worked on controversial issues such as climate...
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Expansion of Early niverse Modelled in nprecedented Detail
For the first time, cosmologists have used the full power of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to perform detailed calculations of the Universe's evolution...
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Quantum Computer Makes First High-Energy Physics Simulation
Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment—the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles—on a quantum...
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Ligo Detects Whispers of Another Black-Hole Merger
Just before 4 a.m. on 26 December, B. S. Sathyaprakash woke up to some good news: gravitational waves had been detected for only the second time in history.
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A Simpler Twist of Fate
Until the day it dies, a cell that has become a skin cell remains a skin cell—or so scientists used to think.
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Google Moves Closer to a niversal Quantum Computer
An experimental prototype of a universal quantum computer can solve a wide range of problems and has the potential to be scaled up to larger systems, researchers...
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Google Moves Closer to a niversal Quantum Computer
For 30 years, researchers have pursued the universal quantum computer, a device that could solve any computational problem, with varying degrees of success.
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CRISPR Gene-Editing System nleashed on RNA
Researchers who discovered a molecular "scissors" for snipping genes have now developed a similar approach for targeting and cutting RNA.
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Plan to Synthesize Human Genome Elicits Mixed Response
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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Illuminating Life's Building Blocks
Biophysicist Joerg Bewersdorf says that 2006 was fluorescence microscopy's annus mirabilis—a 'miraculous year' as momentous in its own way as 1905, when Albert...
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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