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The latest experiment, which could pave the way for super-fast quantum computing, successfully brought light to a complete stop for half a millisecond. The normal speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.
Science will never be able to prove that cell phones are safe, and it may take decades to identify which users, if any, may be vulnerable to the radio waves. "Nobody knows the consequences of using cell phones from childhood and having radio waves reaching far into the brain," notes...
Then Zeus transfers each precious droplet to a nearby sheet of nylon, moistens a designated spot and pivots back to the glass plates to find the next sample on its list. When Zeus is done, the nylon sheet will be spotted with a grid of about 1,000 droplets, forming...
At 17, certain I had blown my SATs, I kept quiet about my test performance until I got my scores back. So while my brave experiment did confirm that now I am indeed dumber, it also revealed that I am much cockier. And that, I have learned in my brief...
The cloning technique used with Bessie--the only cow in the experiment to carry an embryo into late pregnancy--is a variation of the procedure that created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. A needle is jabbed through an egg's protective layer and used to remove...