The West racing China to achieve quantum communications
Wolfgang Tittel, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Calgary, and a group of PhD students have developed a new quantum key distribution (QKD) system. Image: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary Last month, PACE reported on China’s launch of the world’s first quantum satellite, which is on a two-year mission to establish encrypted communications. This week, a group of physicists from the University of Calgary in Canada have made an important step towards quantum communic..>> view originalNasa announcement about Jupiter's moon Europa won't be to say that the moon has aliens, agency clarifies
Nasa has poured cold, salty water on excitement that it could be about to announce it had found aliens. The agency has looked to calm speculation on social media and elsewhere that a press conference is is holding on Monday will be about the discovery of life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. Excitement kicked off when Nasa said that it would be holding a press conference about the fact that the Hubble Space Telescope had found “surprising evidence of activity” on Europa. Experts have suggeste..>> view originalAlien Planet Has 2 Suns Instead of 1, Hubble Telescope Reveals
An artist's illustration shows an exoplanet named OGLE-2007-BLG-349. It orbits a binary pair of red dwarf stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Imagine looking up and seeing more than one sun in the sky. Astronomers have done just that, announcing today (Sept. 22) that they have spotted a planet orbiting two stars instead of one, as previously thought, using the Hubble Space Telescope. Several planets that revolve around two, three or more stars are known to exist. But this i..>> view originalReptile that lived 228 million years ago had a bizarre dinosaur-like bony skull
In a warm, lush region of Texas, a bizarre reptile roamed the land about 228 million years ago, boasting a bony head unlike any creature that ever appeared on Earth.The fossilised skull of the reptile, named Triopticus primus, was dug up in Big Spring, Texas in 1940 but has only now been described. Researchers say that its unique head resembled a battering ram, with a dome-shape and thickened bone.Scroll down for video The fossilised skull of the reptile, named Triopticus primus, was dug up in..>> view originalScientists Look Back in Time at 'Golden Age' of Star Formation
Researchers have looked at a famous sliver of sky with new eyes, revealing clues about galaxies' star-forming potential over time and verifying the early "golden age" of rapid star formation. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an enormous radio telescope in Chile, an international team of astronomers has pinpointed star-forming gas interspersed among the ancient galaxies of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field — a region first observed in detail by the Hubble Space Te..>> view originalShark shield saves Perth man from circling great white
A fisherman who was kayaking in Cockburn Sound came close to a shark – and caught the whole thing on camera. Michael Robertson was trying his luck in the area, and got a surprise when the shark – possibly a great white – followed him. It was eventually deterred by his shark shield, a portable electronic device designed to repel sharks using and electromagnetic field, but not before the whole thing was caught on camera.The fisherman posted the clip on YouTube, and described the day’s events as a ..>> view originalFisherman must shell out $100000 for three rock lobsters caught illegally in marine park
Two years ago, commercial fisherman Christopher George Hansen caught what might be the most expensive rock lobsters ever netted.The Tasmanian delicacies should have brought him about $200 at market; instead, he will pay close to $100,000 for the three lobsters. A Southern rock lobster. Sustained commercial fishing can destroy rock lobster populations in marine protected areas, the judge said. Photo: TRLFA Hansen was this week censured by a Federal Court judge in Canberra for setting his..>> view originalIg Nobel Prizes 'honour' work on sex life of rats, life as a badger
Ig Nobel Prizes 'honour' work on sex life of rats, life as a badger Posted September 23, 2016 11:04:53 Scientific research into how polyester pants affect the sex life of rats, what it is like for a human to live like a badger and how different the world looks when viewed through your legs was honoured at this year's Ig Nobel spoof awards.The group also took a dig at Volkswagen AG, lauding it in chemistry for engineering its vehicles to produce fewer emissions "whenev..>> view originalExcavated fishhooks show that Paleolithic people fished, ate well
Excavated fishhooks show that Paleolithic people fished, ate well Masaki Fujita of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum shows the location where fish hooks from roughly 23,000 years ago were discovered at the Valley of Gangara in Nanjo, Okinawa September 20, 2016 Ryukyu Shimpo At the Sakitari cave (survey site 1) in Nanjo, Okinawa where the world’s oldest fishhooks were unearthed, other artifacts including roughly 10,000 Japanese mitten crab claws were also found. The Japanese mitten cra..>> view original
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