Science X Newsletter Week 37

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	Hydrogen production breakthrough could herald cheap green energy (Phys.org) —Scientists have taken a major step forward in the production of hydrogen from water which could lead to a new era of cheap, clean and renewable energy.
	A tabletop motor using an entirely new driving principle A tabletop motor using an entirely new driving principle is under development at the headquarters of C-Motive Technologies, a startup business that is commercializing technology from the College of Engineering at UW-Madison.
	Fluid mechanics suggests alternative to quantum orthodoxy The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what's called the "Copenhagen interpretation"—which holds that, in some sense, a single particle really is a wave, smeared out across the universe, that collapses into a determinate location only when observed.
	'Solid' light could compute previously unsolvable problems Researchers at Princeton University have begun crystallizing light as part of an effort to answer fundamental questions about the physics of matter.
	Textbook theory behind volcanoes may be wrong In the typical textbook picture, volcanoes, such as those that are forming the Hawaiian islands, erupt when magma gushes out as narrow jets from deep inside Earth. But that picture is wrong, according to a new study from researchers at Caltech and the University of Miami in Florida.
	Is the universe a stable quantum system? According to legend, when Damocles declared that his king, Dionysius, must have a posh and easy life, Dionysius offered to trade places with Damocles. There was only one catch. Dionysius decreed that a sword be suspended over the throne by a single horse hair, so that Damocles would always know the peril of being king. Since then the Sword of Damocles has come to represent a threat of doom that could strike without warning. While the prospect of living under a hanging sword doesn't seem pleasant, stories of impending doom are quite popular, particularly within popular science.
Evil not so banal, says disturbing new probe What prompts ordinary people to commit acts of evil? The question has been debated by philosophers, moralists, historians and scientists for centuries.
	Life on Earth still favours evolution over creationism Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, first published in 1859, offered a bold new explanation for how animals and plants diversified and still serves as the foundation underpinning all medical and biological research today. But the theory remains under attack by creationists in various parts of the world, particularly the US, Turkey, Indonesia and the Middle East.
	Biologists delay the aging process by 'remote control' UCLA biologists have identified a gene that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when activated remotely in key organ systems.
	Ceramics don't have to be brittle: Materials scientists are creating materials by design Imagine a balloon that could float without using any lighter-than-air gas. Instead, it could simply have all of its air sucked out while maintaining its filled shape. Such a vacuum balloon, which could help ease the world's current shortage of helium, can only be made if a new material existed that was strong enough to sustain the pressure generated by forcing out all that air while still being lightweight and flexible.
	New study revisits Miller-Urey experiment at the quantum level For the first time, researchers have reproduced the results of the Miller-Urey experiment in a computer simulation, yielding new insight into the effect of electricity on the formation of life's building blocks at the quantum level.
	France to build wind farm with stealth turbine blades Officials with EDF Energies Nouvelles, an energy company in France, have announced plans for adding turbines with stealth technology to a wind-farm being built in Perpignan. The stealth technology has been developed to prevent the turbines from interfering with aircraft radar systems.
	Physicists build first 500 GHz photon switch The work took nearly four years to complete and it opens a fundamentally new direction in photonics – with far-reaching potential consequences for the control of photons in optical fiber channels.
	Solar system simulation reveals planetary mystery When we look at the Solar System, what clues show us how it formed? We can see pieces of its formation in asteroids, comets and other small bodies that cluster on the fringes of our neighborhood (and sometimes, fly closer to Earth.)
	Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts Two big explosions on the surface of the sun will cause a moderate to strong geomagnetic storm on Earth in the coming days, possibly disrupting radio and satellite communications, scientists said Thursday.
	Interactive dark matter could explain Milky Way's missing satellite galaxies Scientists believe they have found a way to explain why there are not as many galaxies orbiting the Milky Way as expected.
	Scientists: Strong solar storm heading to Earth (Update) A strong solar flare is blasting its way to Earth, but the worst of its power looks like it will barely skim above the planet and not cause many problems.
	New species of electrons can lead to better computing Electrons that break the rules and move perpendicular to the applied electric field could be the key to delivering next generation, low-energy computers, a collaboration of scientists from the University of Manchester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found.
	Seeking proof for the no-hair theorem According to general relativity, a black hole has three measurable properties: mass, rotation (angular momentum), and charge. That's it. If you know those three things, you know all there is to know about the black hole. If the black hole is interacting with other objects, then the interactions can be much more complicated, but an isolated black hole is just mass, rotation and charge.
	Defying physics, engineers prove a magnetic field for light In electronics, changing the path of electrons and manipulating how they flow is as easy as applying a magnetic field.

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