Diamonds Linked in Quantum States
  Quantum entanglement, the spooky ability of separate particles to share quantum states, is accepted fact. Usually though, the entangled bits are so small or cold we needn’t loose sleep over the weirdness. That’s changed. English physicists report today in Science that they’ve linked a pair of diamond crystals at room temperature.

Far From Home, Voyager Detects Milky Way Light We Cannot
The twin Voyager space probes, launched more than 30 years ago, are now so far away they can detect photons generated from the Milky Way that do not reach Earth. These photons, researchers hope, will act as a kind of “Rosetta Stone” translating information about star formation in distant galaxies.

Infographics: The Good, The Bad and The Pretty
It’s hard to hear your eyes from a good, pretty, story-telling infographic. But they can be over-used and abused. Chikodi Chima offers a manifesto for treating your infographic audience well.

Humane Foie-gras Tastes Better
Fattened duck and goose liver is one of the most argued-over, ethically dicey foods on the planet. Force feeding the birds can be cruel, and, while the dish can sometimes be heavenly, chefs complain that it can also turn out disgusting. The difference, report researchers in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, lies in whether the bird is kept genuinely healthy. Treat the birds well, it seems, and you be ethical and have your foie-gras too.

Cracking the Secret to Shark’s Super-Fast Swim
Few things swim faster than a shark. As a sharks tail swings back and forth, they stiffen it midswing, smoothing out the thrust and creating twice as many jets of water as other fish tails. Understanding the technique may help engineers build faster underwater vehicles.

For Numbers, Chrome Now Outshines Firefox
Google Chrome has risen above Mozilla Firefox, to become the second most used web browser in the world according to StatCounter, a web analytics company. The heyday of Firefox may be ending.

[via Danielle Venton]