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A big step toward building a truly-secure global communication network Successful demonstration of quantum communication between a satellite and a ground station A big step toward the development of future satellite constellations using small satellites It facilitates the adoption of this technology in a global truly-secure communication network NICT developed the world’s smallest and lightest

Image via Wikipedia When three Chinese scientists plunged to the bottom of the South China Sea in a tiny submarine early this summer, they did more than simply plant their nation’s flag on the dark seabed. The men, who descended more than two miles in a craft the size of a small truck, also signaled

Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a

Apple’s notoriously tight secrecy ahead of product launches seems to have been undermined with a stray prototype of what appears to be the next iPhone falling into the eager hands of Gizmodo. It’s been carefully pulled-apart, pored-over and examined from every angle, and the folks over at Gizmodo are convinced that its the real thing.

New tool to identify and control neurons Researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience develop a technique to visualize and control the neural activities that underlie behavior Since scientists began studying the brain, they have asked whether the biology they observed can really be tied to external behaviors. Researchers are building a substantial understanding

The human whipworm, which infects 500 million people and can damage physical and mental growth, is killed at egg and adult stage by a new drug class developed at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford and University College London. Current treatments for human whipworm are based on 1960s drugs initially developed for livestock and have

Scientists from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and the University of California San Diego have engineered mosquitoes to be resistant to spreading the devastating Zika virus Zika virus caused more than 4000 cases of serious birth defects in 2015 and is still a risk to millions of people. Detailed in a paper published today in PNAS,

The finding should generate excitement in medical facilities around the world   The solution to the global shortage in the supply of crucial medical isotopes – a scarcity pegged to problems at Ontario’s aging Chalk River nuclear reactor – may be lying in the basements of Canadian hospitals. The 54-year-old facility, set to close in