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- Entangled Pairs Get Sensitive Very Fast
The best clock in the world has no hands, no pendulum, no face or digital display. It is made of ultra-cold atoms trapped by light. This atomic clock is so precise that, had it begun ticking when Earth formed billions of years ago, it…
Read More - Looking at a Cellular Switch
Although one might think it would be simple, the genetics of bacteria can be rather complicated. A bacterium’s genes use a set of regulatory proteins and other molecules to monitor and change genetic expressions within the organism. One…
Read More - How 1,000 undergraduates helped solve an enduring mystery about the sun
For a new study, a team of physicists recruited roughly 1,000 undergraduate students at CU Boulder to help answer one of the most enduring questions about the sun: How does the star’s outermost atmosphere, or “corona,” get so hot?…
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