Experimental Device Generates Electricity From The Coldness Of The Universe - Phys.Org

Just when you thought physics was stagnating, Shanhui Fan and pals turn the paradigm on its side by doing the seemingly impossible: harnessing negative illumination. Who even knew there was such a thing as negative illumination in the first place? Stranger still, these eggheads are harvesting heat as they produce lower temperatures. Perhaps the cryo-arithmetic engines imagined by Alastair Reynolds aren't too wild of a possiblity. Also from the hallowed halls of science, Researchers Shed New Light On The Atomic Wave Function demonstrating our ability to observe quantum mechanics. While such observations are a pipe dream on the macro scale, the Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, the University of Maryland, along with the University of Chicago have measured the positions of 100,000 atoms. It's enough to make one wonder which of those ytterbium atoms exist in a Nazi parallel world. Physics not your cup of tea? An Artificial Life Form Has Been Given Synthetic DNA paving the way for designer bacteria or biogenic weapons. Not sufficiently frightened nor awed? Roland Pease spills the beans for potential future applications of this emerging field of biology. (CS)

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