Noisy airplanes no more

More Randomness From Noisy Sources

Bell experiments can be used to generate private random numbers. An ideal Bell experiment would involve measuring a state of two maximally entangled qubits, but in practice any state produced is subject to noise. Here we consider how the techniques presented in [1] and [2], i. e. using an optimized Bell inequality, and taking advantage of the fact that the device provider is not our adversary, ...

Centrosomes: Central no more?

It has recently been found that the zygotic development of a morphologically normal fly can occur without properly functioning mitotic centrosomes. Does this mean that centrosomes are not required for cell division in animals at all?

No More Scapegoating

Behavioral software contracts supplement interface information with logical assertions. A rigorous enforcement of contracts provides useful feedback to developers if it signals contract violations as soon as they occur and if it assigns blame to violators with precise explanations. Correct blame assignment gets programmers started with the debugging process and can significantly decrease the ti...

Schizophrenia: inorganic no more.

No more free lunches.

Free pens and pizza lunches. Sponsored conferences and compromised medical education. Courtesy golf and unaffordable holidays. Thought leaders and ghost writers. These are the trappings of doctors and drug companies being entwined in an embrace of avarice and excess, an embrace that distorts medical information and patient care. An article in this theme issue of the BMJ identifies 16 ways in wh...