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Whether a beam of light passes through an object often depends on the material of the object and the properties of the light, such as its frequency, color, and polarization. These properties can be assigned to individual photons, but some characteristics of light emerge only collectively, through quantum correlations between many photons. Developing materials that
You have full access to this article through your institution. Hello Nature Readers, would you like to receive this report in your inbox for free every day? Register here. Computer scientist Pan Hui with a digital teaching avatar used at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou.Credit: Yawei Zhao From assisting in
Naked mole rat queens produce a chemical that prevents other females from reproducing.Credit: Neil Bromhall/Getty Naked mole rat (Glaber heterocephaly) queens produce a chemical that prevents other females in their colony from reproducing. A study published today in Nature suggests that this compound maintains a strict social structure that is dominated by a queen, even
Computer scientist Pan Hui with a digital teaching avatar used at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou.Credit: Yawei Zhao At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and talk exactly like Albert Einstein or mathematician John Nash.
The authors of the Global Justice Report They are calling for a UN-led central bank to replace the International Monetary Fund.Credit: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Ambitious. Utopian. Crackpot. These are some of the responses to last month’s post by Global Justice Report by economist Lucas Chancel of the Paris-based World Inequality Lab and his 44 co-authors. The