Cryptographic systems and information security rely on unpredictable, unmanipulable random bits that are physical in nature. Especially in the context of private key systems that enable unconditional security via "one-time-pad" ...
Optics & Photonics
May 2, 2022
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Like disease in humans, parasites can wage a deadly evolutionary "arms race" against their hosts, even driving small populations to extinction if they mutate more quickly and gain the upper hand.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2022
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A new method of identifying gravitational wave signals using quantum computing could provide a valuable new tool for future astrophysicists.
General Physics
Apr 1, 2022
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Physicists know about the huge chasm between quantum physics and the theory of gravity. However, in recent decades, theoretical physics has provided some plausible conjecture to bridge this gap and to describe the behavior ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 28, 2022
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Since being identified in people in 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has gone on to infect a wide range of animal species, wild and domestic. Concerns abound that these species jumps could lead to novel mutations and even harmful new variants.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 1, 2022
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Whether for use in cybersecurity, gaming or scientific simulation, the world needs true random numbers, but generating them is harder than one might think. But a group of Brown University physicists has developed a technique ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2022
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A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolutionary theory by showing a long-term directional ...
Evolution
Jan 31, 2022
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The notion that some computational problems in math and computer science can be hard should come as no surprise. There is, in fact, an entire class of problems deemed impossible to solve algorithmically. Just below this class ...
Mathematics
Jan 10, 2022
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The three-body problem is one of the oldest problems in physics: It concerns the motions of systems of three bodies—like the sun, Earth, and the moon—and how their orbits change and evolve due to their mutual gravity. ...
Astronomy
Dec 28, 2021
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Engineers have successfully transferred digitally encoded information wirelessly using nuclear radiation instead of conventional technology.
General Physics
Nov 10, 2021
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