Archive: 05/5/2008

The Particle Whisperers

As many parents know, it's often easier to keep your kids under control by exerting less authority rather than more. A child who fidgets uncontrollably in a confining booster seat, for example, may be perfectly content on ...

May 05, 2008 3.2 / 5 (29) 0

Bacterial slime helps cause serious disease

Leptospirosis is a serious but neglected emerging disease that infects humans through contaminated water. Now research published in the May issue of the journal Microbiology shows for the first time how bacteria that cause ...

May 05, 2008 4 / 5 (5) 0

Quantum Mechanical Con Game

For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics. Prior quantum cons have typically ...

May 05, 2008 2.6 / 5 (19) 2
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