Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. [CLIP: Audio of bat calls] Hopkin: Bats use echolocation to hunt for their foods, and moths are frequently on the menu. But in the acoustic arms race involving predator and prey, moths also have a trick or two up […]
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Physicists Just Built The First Working Prototype Of A ‘Quantum Radar’
Quantum entanglement – that bizarre but potentially massively practical quantum phenomenon in which two particles are inextricably joined throughout place and time – could participate in a major job in future radar engineering. In 2008, an engineer from MIT devised a way to use the characteristics of entanglement to […]