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- Quantum computing: Exotic particle had an 'out-of-body experience'
- Like venom coursing through the body: Researchers identify mechanism driving COVID-19 mortality
- Food claiming to have 'wild mushrooms' rarely does, study finds
- The science of ants' underground cities
| Quantum computing: Exotic particle had an 'out-of-body experience' Posted: 24 Aug 2021 02:44 PM PDT Scientists have taken a clear picture of electronic particles that make up a mysterious magnetic state called quantum spin liquid (QSL). The achievement could facilitate the development of superfast quantum computers and energy-efficient superconductors. The scientists are the first to capture an image of how electrons in a QSL decompose into spin-like particles called spinons and charge-like particles called chargons. |
| Like venom coursing through the body: Researchers identify mechanism driving COVID-19 mortality Posted: 24 Aug 2021 10:53 AM PDT Researchers have identified what may be the key molecular mechanism responsible for COVID-19 mortality -- an enzyme related to neurotoxins found in rattlesnake venom. |
| Food claiming to have 'wild mushrooms' rarely does, study finds Posted: 24 Aug 2021 07:41 AM PDT Harvesting wild mushrooms requires an expert eye to distinguish between the delicious and the poisonous, which makes products with truly wild mushrooms expensive. However, due to minimal regulations around the harvest and sale of wild fungi, it's nearly impossible to know what mushroom species are included in the product. A new study used DNA barcoding to show that 16 food products labeled with wild mushrooms mostly contained cultivated fungi and a few poisonous mushrooms. |
| The science of ants' underground cities Posted: 23 Aug 2021 12:10 PM PDT Scientists look at how ants dig tunnels, and come up with some surprising results. Slip beneath the surface and the above-ground simplicity of an ant hill gives way to subterranean complexity. Tunnels dive downward, branching and leading to specialized chambers that serve as home for the colony's queen, as nurseries for its young, as farms for fungus cultivated for food, and as dumps for its trash. These are not just burrows. They are underground cities, some of them home to millions of individuals, reaching as far as 25 feet underground, often lasting for decades. |
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