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Physicists at Syracuse, Portsmouth and ENS in France argue in a paper accepted by JCAP that decoherence can strongly suppress false-vacuum tunnelling. The tools come from quantum computing, where scientists study the same effect to protect fragile information.
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Syracuse University's IDJC found 77% of independent local news publishers with 100 to 500 paying subscribers cite burnout, against more than 55% overall. The authors describe outlets that size as past hobby scale yet unable to afford adequate staff, and the survey's other figures fit that account.
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A Syracuse-led team says a star that arrives already rotating fast cannot be spun up much further, which lets each weaker pass finally look weaker. Four of about ten known repeaters fade.
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University of Portsmouth-led physicists find, in a simplified model, that decoherence can suppress quantum tunnelling and lock a field in its false vacuum. The Higgs field, which may itself sit in a false vacuum, is the example that motivates the work, though the study does not model it.
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Incendiamoeba cascadensis, from Lassen Volcanic National Park, divides at 63 degrees Celsius and still hunts for food at 64, one degree past a membrane-stability limit its lead author says may have narrowed the search.
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The projected slide to 3.4 million high school graduates by 2041 works out to under 1% a year, which is slower than the discount rate and the visa numbers already rewriting college budgets this year.
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Athletic departments are spinning up commercial vehicles to chase spending levels only football and men's basketball actually fund. The structure they pick decides who owns the upside.
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A Tennessee lab is building implant surfaces whose micron-scale pillars beat on command, reporting removal of more than 99.9% of attached bacteria. Biofilms are 1,000 times less antibiotic-susceptible.
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