Lifeboat Foundation

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In Brief

• Scientists are a little bit closer to unlocking the mystery of how the rules of the quantum realm translate to the rules of the classical physics of the observable world.
• Experts predict that the materials used in this research, topological insulators, will play a key role in furthering this development.

It’s no surprise that quantum physics can be disorienting to the casual observer; after all, it does follow its own set of rules quite different from those of classical physics which rule over our everyday experience. In the quantum realm, things can and cannot be at the same time (to a certain extent) or are continually moving without spending energy. These don’t apply to the physics of macro-level matter.

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Associated Press historical news archive articles dating back to 1985.

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You wouldn’t know it, but plants are constantly taking in information.

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I usually don’t post things from business insider since it is broadcasted everywhere already. However, I saw this and we way too cool not to share.

The Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower will include 23,000 trees and shrubs to eat CO₂ — nearly the same amount found in Central Park.

This is amazing.

In Brief

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If you feel no awe when watching this video, then you are already dead.

On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, Huygens made the most distant landing ever on another world, and the only landing on a body in the outer solar system. This video uses actual images taken by the probe during its two-and-a-half hour fall under its parachutes.

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