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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can't explicitly consider applicants' race in admissions, a landmark ruling that will radically transform how colleges are able to attract a diverse student body.

Why it matters: The ruling will force colleges to reimagine long-standing hallmarks of the admissions process and likely jeopardize the representation of Black and Latino students on campuses nationwide.

The ruling is the second in about a year that has upended decades of precedent.

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We need a robust EPA. The current Supreme Court wants to end the EPA and Federal power to regulate our air and water. Never forget.

Researchers have long recognized how the ocean responds to seasonal changes in wind and weather. Now, data from MBARI’s long-term monitoring of ocean ecosystems is filling in the gaps in our understanding of the impacts of coastal upwelling from the surface to the abyssal seafloor. 

This unprecedented achievement represents an important landmark in the development of quantum technologies. It is published today in Nature Physics.

Stimulated light emission, postulated by Einstein in 1916, is widely observed for large numbers of photons and laid the basis for the invention of the laser. With this research, stimulated emission has now been observed for single photons.

Specifically, the scientists could measure the direct time delay between one photon and a pair of bound photons scattering off a single quantum dot, a type of artificially created atom.

“This opens the door to the manipulation of what we can call ’quantum light’,” Dr. Sahand Mahmoodian from the University of Sydney School of Physics and joint lead author of the research said.

Dr. Mahmoodian said, “This fundamental science opens the pathway for advances in quantum-enhanced measurement techniques and photonic quantum computing.”

Paris green (copper(II) acetate triarsenite or copper(II) acetoarsenite) is an arsenic-based organic pigment. It is named after being used to kill rats in the sewers of Paris. Because of its bright color and low price, Paris green was a popular pigment in the early 19th century when its toxicity was not found. It was widely used in clothing, candles, and wallpaper.

Painters such as Monet, Cezanne, and Van Gogh often used paris green as the pigment in their works. In the 1980s, the biochemistry department of the University of Glasgow examined Napoleon's body and found that he may die from arsenic poisoning. In the past, the green wallpaper used by the aristocracy was dyed with arsenic dyes such as Paris green. This is one of the hypotheses of how Napoleon died.