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A quantum phenomenon has allowed scientists to develop a lens just three atoms thick, qualifying as the thinnest ever made.
Oddly, the innovative approach allows most wavelengths of light to pass right through – a feature that could see it have huge potential in optical fiber communication and gadgets like augmented reality glasses.



					
			

The researchers who invented the lens, from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Stanford University in the US, say that their innovation will progress research into lenses of this type, as well as miniature electronic systems.
"The lens can be used in applications where the view through the...

Scientists Create The Thinnest Lens on Earth Using Quantum Physics

The concept of collective duress can be seen through the lens of quantum mechanics. Collective duress is a quirky but insightful way to understand how our minds might interact. Sometimes, the best way to deal with stress and anxiety is to take a deep breath and stop it. We may...

The Quantum Mechanics of Collective Duress

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have advanced the analysis of zeolites using innovative 17O solid-state NMR techniques, revealing the intricate structures of hydroxyl groups and improving our understanding of their catalytic properties. This breakthrough could have wider applications in analyzing other complex materials. Zeolites are extensively employed...

Revealing Hidden Catalysts: Scientists Uncover Atomic-Scale Insights Into Zeolites

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. While nuclear physicists know the strong interaction is what holds together the particles at the heart of matter, we still have a lot to learn about this fundamental force. Results published earlier this year in Physical Review D by three researchers in the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility bring us closer to understanding an important piece of the strong interaction puzzle.

Pooling skills to study a slippery particle

Life, uh, finds a way — and apparently, so does a jumble of little strings of simple code. In an experiment that simulated what would happen if you left a bunch of random data alone for millions of generations, Google researchers say they witnessed the emergence of self-replicating digital lifeforms. And their findings, published as a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, could mirror — or at least shed light on — the emergence of actual biological life.

Google Researchers Say They Simulated the Emergence of Life

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A group of Chinese researchers has created a robot with a brain made of human stem cells. The technology is technically a “brain-on-a-chip,” and the researchers have been working to train the robot to perform various tasks. The stem cell brain that powers the robot is attached to a neural interface chip, which powers the entire thing.
Tianjin University, one of the two institutes behind the new research, considers the design the world’s first open-source brain-on-chip system and says that it could lead to the development of more brain-like computing. The key to the entire design is an in-vitro cultured brain...

Terrifying new robot has a brain made from human stem cells


Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings.
Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.



					
			

Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain's outer cortical cells that produces a novel 'graded' signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to carry out their logical functions.
By measuring the electrical activity in sections of tissue removed during surgery on...

A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Was Detected in Human Brains

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Quantum computing has the potential to provide insights into profound questions about the universe, such as how space-time emerges from fundamental quantum processes. This capability is particularly valuable because many of these processes are currently beyond our reach with classical computational methods. The concept of emergent space-time suggests that our...

Quantum Physicist John Preskill Explores Information as Fundamental Reality

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California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

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Physicists Accidentally Discover A Whole New Way To Write Pi

The Week

For the first time, researchers have reconstructed fossilized chromosomes

Scientists just made a big breakthrough with woolly mammoth DNA

Scientists at the University of Malaga have shown, in an unprecedented way, how the so-called "elephant graveyard" of the Early Pleistocene archaeological site of Orce—a name given due to the amount of remains of the extinct elephant species Mammuthus meridionalis that it contained—hid a natural trap in quicksand.

Scientists find a natural quicksand trap dated to more than one million years ago in the 'elephant graveyard' of Orce

Three Incredible Equations, And Why They're So Important

New York Post

Can machines think? 

Humans have pondered this question since the times of the ancient Greeks, and the Myth of bronze automaton Talos — forged by the god Hephaestus to protect the island of Crete — says Ray Kurzweil in his timely and mind-bending new book, “The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI.” 

But it wasn’t until 20th-century computer scientist Alan Turing came along that this philosophical question became something we could test empirically. 

Turing’s “imitation game” — now known as the Turing Test — sought to determine whether a machine could perform the same tasks as a human brain....

The human mind and AI are now closer than ever — and will soon surpass us in nearly every way

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What makes a Zodiac Sign low maintenance? Independence can make someone low maintenance. Someone who is reliable, dependable, and punctual, can make someone low maintenance. Someone who tends to want to do things on their own can be low maintenance. Low-maintenance people tend to be those people who do on their own but are not necessarily alone. They rarely need or ask for help. They are self-motivated, often energetic, and can be considered leaders is many cases. Now me, some say I am low maintenance and others say I’m high maintenance. Maybe I’m both. Let's see what zodiac signs are considered low-maintenance.

5 Zodiac Signs That Are Low Maintenance

The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research.

Climate change is messing with time more than previously thought, scientists find

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

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CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

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In Virginia, Drinking in public or offering another person alcohol in a public space is prohibited. This is a class 4 Misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250.00. Under a new law that goes into effect on July 1, this will change to a degree.WDBJ7 reports that the prohibition on drinking or offering an alcoholic beverage to someone else in public will no longer apply under the following conditions.

Drinking in public will no longer be prohibited on private Campgrounds in Virginia beginning July 1

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Researchers directly simulate the fusion of oxygen and carbon nuclei

The fusion of two nuclei is a complex process influenced by many factors. These factors include not only the relative energy and angular momentum of the...

Researchers directly simulate the fusion of oxygen and carbon nuclei

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