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Friday Squid Blogging: COVID-19 Found on Chinese Squid Packaging

I thought the virus doesn’t survive well on food packaging:

Authorities in China’s northeastern Jilin province have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported squid, health authorities in the city of Fuyu said on Sunday, urging anyone who may have bought it to get themselves tested.

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Posted on September 25, 2020 at 2:39 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: Nano-Sized SQUIDS

SQUID news:

Physicists have developed a small, compact superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) that can detect magnetic fields. The team l focused on the instrument’s core, which contains two parallel layers of graphene.

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Posted on September 18, 2020 at 4:14 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari vs. Squid

St. Louis Magazine answers the important question: “Is there a difference between calamari and squid?” Short answer: no.

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Posted on September 11, 2020 at 4:05 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survive Freezing, Oxygen-Deprived Waters

Lots of interesting genetic details.

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Posted on August 28, 2020 at 4:10 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: Rhode Island's State Appetizer Is Calamari

Rhode Island has an official state appetizer, and it’s calamari. Who knew?

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Posted on August 21, 2020 at 4:11 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: Editing the Squid Genome

Scientists have edited the genome of the Doryteuthis pealeii squid with CRISPR. A first.

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Posted on August 14, 2020 at 4:05 PM • View Comments

Friday Squid Blogging: New SQUID

There’s a new SQUID:

A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we experience every day. The atomtronic Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) is also potentially useful for ultrasensitive rotation measurements and as a component in quantum computers.

“In a conventional SQUID, the quantum interference in electron currents can be used to make one of the most sensitive magnetic field detectors,” said Changhyun Ryu, a physicist with the Material Physics and Applications Quantum group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “We use neutral atoms rather than charged electrons. Instead of responding to magnetic fields, the atomtronic version of a SQUID is sensitive to mechanical rotation.”

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Posted on August 7, 2020 at 4:08 PM • View Comments