Mother Jones: Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia threw another wrench in the Senate climate debate last week, announcing that he is cosponsoring an alternative bill with Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. Their solution to the climate problem? A $100 billion subsidy to the nuclear industry instead of a cap and trade scheme.
An ultracold atomic gas can sync into a single quantum state. Researchers uncovered a speed limit for the process that has implications for quantum computing and the evolution of the early universe.