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7 April 2011

Radioactive arrest

Two people have been arrested in Tokyo, Japan, for allegedly advertising and selling an unauthorised drug that they claim absorbs radioactive substances, removing them from the body. Police estimate that they sold “Premium Zeolite” to over 1000 people, raking in about 24 million yen (£176,500).

Quantum quantity

A new record has been set by entangling 14 quantum bits, or qubits. The previous record was eight. Thomas Monz at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and colleagues encoded their qubits on 14 calcium ions held in a magnetic trap. Such a multiple-entangled state could form the heart…

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