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Austrian public university in Innsbruck conducting research across atmospheric science, archaeology, physics, and chemistry.
Physicists cooled cesium atoms into single-file chains and found indirect evidence of Bethe strings, bound clusters of at least six atoms. Co-author Hanns-Christoph Nägerl says the fit to theory is not proof and does not expect the strings to be long-lived.
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Innsbruck physicists prove that, in some environments, an ideal agent extracts the most energy only by forgetting parts of its own action history. Lead author Lukas Fiderer said today's computers are still far from that limit, so for now the result sketches what efficient agents could look like.
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University of Innsbruck physicists made Bethe strings, predicted by Hans Bethe in 1931, from cesium atoms in thousands of one-dimensional tubes. Because the atoms' attraction is tunable, physicists now have a controllable gas for studying bound states of many particles.
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Peter Trebsche and Marion Berranger count 193 complete bars and 307 partial ones from Deinham in Austria, Europe's largest prehistoric iron find, radiocarbon dated to the La Tene period and recovered from gravel heaps that destroyed its context.
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Ronald Micura's group in Innsbruck and Aiming Ren's in Zhejiang solved the RNA imaging tag with and without dye bound, and the residue that moves, G38, is what lets the dye leave again fast enough to blink.
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Andreas Bauder has drilled mass-balance stakes into Swiss glaciers for twenty years. This summer the melt released them, and the monitoring network had to be repaired while it was being read.
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The result is mathematical rather than measured: entangle each electron with an ion, combine across electrons, and fewer electrons buy the same signal. No factor is stated anywhere.
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Direct measurements at the Beijing Meteorological Tower found trees supplied a tenth of VOC emissions but nearly half the reactivity that drives ozone, almost all of it isoprene.
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