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Quantum entanglement helps keep DNA together

Once in a while science produces theoretical work that has tantalizing possibilities but also raises a strong skeptical response. This is another way of saying that a theory has a certain amount of plausibility but is without experimental evidence. Such is the case with a theory proposed by Elisabeth Rieper and colleagues at the National [...]
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“I thought to myself, ‘That’s really interesting …’”

Rice University graduate student Cary Pint looked at the tweezers he was using to pull a sample; they were coated with carbon nanotubes. “That’s really interesting….” In fact, precisely what he was researching – how to make carbon nanotubes stick to various surfaces. Light bulb time. The Eureka! moment. Perhaps not exactly, but at the [...]
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