June 5th, 2007 by 
Freewheelin A new quantum communication record has been set!
Scientists have managed to teleport a qubit (a tiny bit of information, or ‘quantum bit’) an amazing 144km instantaneously.
This is a great step forwards in communication technology.
New Scientist have the story.
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May 22nd, 2007 by Freewheelin It’s pretty common knowledge that our sun - Sol - is going to shit itself in about 5 billion years. 
That’s a pretty long time to wait for a spectacular stellar event.
There’s an even bigger show that will be on before that one though, and it involves more than just our little ball of hot stuff.
In a mere 2 billion years, our galaxy - The Milky Way - will crash right into Andromeda - the closest galaxy to us.
Sadly, the crash will be pretty tame, with scientists suggesting that there will be no star on star action because of the immense distances in between them.
It’s not even going to rip our solar system apart, which seems pretty weak. We should, however, get some meteor or comet action coming our way, since it should be able to at least disrupt the Oort cloud enough to liven things up.
Sciencemag.org have the story.
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May 19th, 2007 by Freewheelin Ars Technica have a story about scientists potentially creating black holes on earth with the Large Hadron Collider that’s due to come online later this year.
If created they could sink to the centre of the Earth and slowly suck the entire planet in on itself!
Sounds like a cure for global warming, estrogenisation, religion and all of the other shit plaguing the Earth these days.
Great work guys!
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