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Want to burn fat cells easily? Try to freeze them

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 JATIN SHARMA Nobody wants those ugly looking fat bulges. It makes anyone look like they are out of shape even when they are not. They make our clothes look bad and fitted tightly and are just too stubborn to get rid of. Excess of it raises and increases the risk for development of diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes; hence there has been considerable amount of time being spent on finding a way to remove these stubborn fat cells. Apparently scientists have found out a way to make these fat cells disappear and that too without surgery or cutting you open. The treatment does no damage to your skin and is very effective. 1 Study shows fat cells die when exposed to extreme cold Humans normally have two types of fat: white fat & brown fat and knowing the major differences between the two can in fact help people drop weight. “White fat” is the skinny coating of blubber that is visible on the human stomach, backs of arms and on the thigh region....

Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute

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In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute. It sounds weird and it is. The reason for wanting to hold light in its place (aside from the sheer awesomeness of it) is to ensure that it retains its quantum coherence properties (i.e. its information state), thus making it possible to build light-based quantum memory. And the longer that light can be held, the better as far as computation is concerned. Accordingly, it could allow for more  secure quantum communications  over longer distances. Needless to say, halting light is not easy — you can't just put in the freezer. Light is electromagnetic radiation that moves at 300 million meters per second. Over the course of a one minute span, it can travel about 11 million miles (18 million km), or 20 round trips to the moon. So it's a rath...