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Gold-mine worm shows animals could be living on Mars

June 2, 2011

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“It’s like finding Moby Dick in Lake Ontario,” says Tullis Onstott of the nematode worms his Princeton University team discovered living far beneath the Earth’s surface in South Africa. The tiny worms – just 500 micrometres long – were found at depths ranging from 900 metres to 3.6 kilometres, in three gold mines in the Witwatersrand basin […]

First Observation Of 8 Entangled Photons Smashes Entanglement Record

June 2, 2011

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An 8-photon “Schrodinger’s Cat” is among the first of the new quantum objects that the breakthrough makes possible, say physicists Entanglement is the strange quantum phenomenon in which objects become so closely linked that they share the same existence. In the language of physics, they are described by the same wavefunction. Entangling things isn’t so […]