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Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation

Spooky action between La Palma and Tenerife, with space the next stop

Noise can improve quantum computing, says ANU scientist

It’s quantum computing: of course there’s a paradox

Fastest-ever hydrocarb scramjet hits Mach 8, doesn't explode

HIFire 2 engine successfully lights match in a hurricane

Physicists iron out lumps in quantum dots

Silicon part of the problem at the nano-scale

US gov boffins achieve speeds FASTER THAN LIGHT

'Loophole' found in Special Theory of Relativity

Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, 'excited' beauty pops into being

Like Weird Science on a sub-atomic scale

Swiss, German physicists split the electron

Spin here, orbit there

Dark matter hits you once a minute

We all get whacked by WIMPs

Terrafugia flies first prototype: Flying cars 'within a year'

Unleaded fuel-chugging wing-mobile passes the test

Top Italian OPERA boffin steps down after faster-than-light mistake

Gran Sasso lab promises more neutrino experiments, though

Sky boffins: The Moon is not Earth's only natural satellite

'Minimoons' drop by, have a pint, overstay

Los Alamos fires BLOODY BIG MAGNET

Even better: it didn’t smash itself to bits

Thai floods derail Hadron-colliding antimatter boffinry

CERN experiment runs low on hard disks

Record-breaking laser pulse boosts fusion power hopes

One giant step towards 'creating a miniature star on Earth'

Einstein online archive expands

Thousands of docs hit the ‘net

More evidence that neutrinos are NOT faster than light

Boffins pour cold water on time travel plans, hyperdrive

Supersonic silent biplane COMING SOON ...ish

Boffins meld old with new to snuff out sonic boom

Silicon nanowires: The Next Big Thing™ in chip design

CPTF 2012The 'pigs in a blanket' of process technology

Boffins build cyborg snails to generate electricity

Species now needs a slow-mo Neo to free them

Moore's Law savior EUV faces uncertain future

CPTF 2012'The End of Optical Lithography' has arrived - now what?

Boffins render fibre obsolete

Just point your neutrino gun and say hello

Galaxies to get the Pluto treatment?

Galactic status on the line for newly-found star groups

Speedy 3D printer creates 285µm Formula-1 speedster

Nanoscale engineering just got much faster

Nuke clock incapable of losing time chimes with boffins

Precise to 1/20th of a sec in 14bn years

Tevatron refines Higgs boson picture

Fermilab’s final fling brings ‘fuzzy’ picture of God particle

Sun belches wonking solar flare

Get out your tinfoil hats

Warp drives are PLANET KILLERS, Sydney Uni students find

Roam the universe, cheat Einstein, fry your friends

Wireless breakthrough: one frequency, multiple signals

Italian team doubles-up on Guglielmo Marconi

Hadron-colliding, volcano-tracking boffins pocket cloud freebie

CERN, ESA and pals unwrap donated number cruncher

Antimatter asymmetry: new results bring solution closer

Fermilab physicists’ fingers crossed

Quantum computing IN OUR LIFETIME - IBM breakthrough

Big Blue boffins crack pesky unstable qubit puzzle

All-optical RAM to clear comms bottleneck

NTT shows off nanowatt optical memory

IBM carbon probe views electron movement in molecule

Scanning technique vital for molecular computing

OPERA grabs spanner, fixes kit, and slows down neutrinos

Ye canna break the laws of physics, it seems

NASA sniffs little black hole's 20-million-MPH wind

Flatulent fallen star farts supermassive-grade hurricane

Flash DOOMED to drive itself off a cliff - boffins

NAND to hit endurance, reliability limits

Nasa rocketeers probe aurora borealis solar interference

Sky shot seeks clues to GPS woes

Upstart startup STT punts big on universal memory

Spin overcomes resistance

Tiny transistor stays where it's put

Doing well with silicon and phosphorus – one atom at a time

CERN boffins to lift LHC beam power

Igor! More power!

US Navy preps railgun for tests

Bedding down BAE Systems prototype

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

Foul-smelling brooms purge carriages of surfing commuters

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