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  • Quantum Teleportation Successfully Done Over a 16km Distance

    Quantum entanglement is like magic. Quantum entangled photos where separated for the first time more than just a few meters, achieving an 89% “information fidelity” over a 10 mile distance. This represents a new distance and fidelity record.

    Arstechnica reports: “Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space.”

    Read the rest of the post here.

  • Don’t Count Your Gray Hair Anymore

    As msnbc and many others are reporting today: British scientists have “concluded” that they have found the culprit that causes gray hair in humans. Really sounds great to have hopes for living to old age without having to deal with either the gray hair or constant coloring.  On the other hand, wouldn’t it be really strange to see 80 somethings with perfectly dark and shiny hair in a natural way? It would maybe make their faces, old and wrinkled, appear out of place.

    This is definitly something we will see a “cure” for sooner rather than later since there is a huge industry attached to the issue of gray hair, or rather not to have them show. This market is worth:

    “$…42.5 billion worldwide by 2010, according to a market report published last year by Global Industry Analysts.”

    I would be in line to get a preventive treatment, you bet.

  • Memristor Storage to replace HD + RAM

    Accidental discovery of the elusive “memristor” electronic component. It could soon replace both RAM and hard drives with devices 10x smaller. Cell phones might become sensors, protecting planet Earth. Credit: Richard Hart – The Next Step

  • Vatican Representative OK’s space aliens for catholics

    According to a report by Associate Press the Vatican’s chief astronomer gives green light to catholics all over the world to believe in Aliens and God at the same time. Preparation work being done? AP Link.

  • Sao Paulo, Brazil hit by 5.2 Earthquake

    Today, 4/22/2008 at 9:05pm Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and several other cities felt a tremor of 5.2 on the Richter scale. People reporting in to police and authorities said the earthquake lasted about 5 seconds and was long enough to cause things to fall off shelves and walls as well as making them feel dizzy. The epicenter, according to the Sao Paulo Seismological Observatory, was 270km east in the Atlantic Ocean.

    There are no reports of injuries or damage to structures as of 10pm today. I personally was working on my computer and did not feel a thing.

    USGS Report:

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008reab.php

    USGS Map:

    http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/X2008reab/ciim_display.html

  • Nanobots: each with their own tiny “brain”

    Steven Kehoe at mytechnews.org reports on advances in nanotechnology at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan. This is certainly a further step in the direction of smart nanoscale robots:

    “A tiny chemical “brain” has been invented by Scientists at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan. With a size of two nanometers, the molecular device is capable of controlling eight of the microscopic nanobot machines simultaneously.”

    And:

    “…it wouldn’t be feasible to put the nanobots into the blood and expect it to locate the right place, but this “brain” could fill that void. Dr Bandyopadhyay believes that the nanobots might come up as a miracle cure for certain diseases in the future, if the chemical brain could accurately control and guide the nanobots through the body.”

    Read the entire article at mytechnews.org.

  • Chocolate Extract instead of Fluoride: Makes a Much Better Toothpaste?

    Nice research being done at Tulane University by doctoral candidate Arman Sadeghpou about replacing Fluoride in toothpaste with an extract made from Cocoa/Chocolate. Bringing various benfits like “harden teeth enamel, making users less susceptible to tooth decay”, plus avoiding the dangers of fluoride, especially for children. Currently animal testing has been done and was proven to be successful.
    Read Article at Tulane University.

  • NASA’s Planetquest program looking for Spock’s Planet “Vulcan”

    Planetquest, a NASA search for earthlike planets, might be starting to look for a ficticious (until now) planet called Vulcan that circles around 40 Eridani A, a dwarf star, for those of you who are not familiar with Star Trek. Eridani is a triple star system and the 3 suns are far enough apart so that there is the possibility that planets might have formed, according to Dr. Sean Raymond of the University of Colorado.

  • Gliese 581c: New Telescopes will scan for life starting 2016

    Tpfsplashposter-Final-500“Confirming life there, and in other yet-to-be-discovered systems, will require a new generation of space telescopes capable of picking up “signatures” such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane. NASA and the European Space Agency are developing planet finders that will do just that by 2020, assuming funding comes through.

    Tour the future of planet-hunting tech as seen through artists’ renditions of proposed exploration projects in the following gallery.” Wired Post.

  • Harder than Diamond (from some angles): Rhenium Diboride

    “There’s hard, and then there’s superhard. Researchers have designed and made a material capable of scratching diamond — and done it without resorting to harsh, high-pressure methods. The team found that in some circumstances it could actually scratch diamond. “To scratch diamond you have to have something that is at least in the neighbourhood of the hardness of diamond,” says Badding.” Full Article (Nature).

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