Implanting diamonds with flaws offers key technology for quantum communications
Diamonds are prized for their purity, but their flaws might hold the key to a new type of highly secure communications.
Diamonds are prized for their purity, but their flaws might hold the key to a new type of highly secure communications.
Quantum Physics
Jul 5, 2018
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Last week, the Victorian government announced a new surveillance monitoring scheme directed at young criminal offenders aged 16 and older.
Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2018
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SpaceX has postponed a satellite launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2018
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Nature Communications today published research by a team comprising Scottish and South African researchers, demonstrating entanglement swapping and teleportation of orbital angular momentum 'patterns' of light. This is a ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 21, 2017
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Quantum physic can guarantee that a message has not be intercepted before reaching its destination. Thanks to the laws of quantum physic, a particle of light – a photon – can be in two distinct states simultaneously, ...
Quantum Physics
May 29, 2017
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Twitter has suspended the accounts of several prominent members of the so-called "alt-right" in an apparent crack down on accounts tied to hate speech or threats of violence.
Internet
Nov 16, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Spider silk is well-known for its unusual combination of being both lightweight and extremely strong—in some cases, stronger than steel. Due to these properties, researchers have been developing spider-silk-inspired ...
The U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more repeat offenders, a new study suggests.
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2016
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(Phys.org)—One of the most ambitious endeavors in quantum physics right now is to build a large-scale quantum network that could one day span the entire globe. In a new study, physicists have shown that describing quantum ...
African trypanosomes establish deadly, chronic infections of trypanosomiasis in the bloodstream by using repetitive 70-bp regions in the genome to regularly change out the active coat protein gene. Galadriel Hovel-Miner and ...
Biotechnology
May 5, 2016
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