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On DVICE and other tech blogs, we're all always speculating which robot will emerge as the first real automated servant. According to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, maybe we've got that backwards - maybe it's the robots who will have human pets.

ScienceDaily (June 4, 2011) - Do the principles of quantum mechanics apply to biological systems? Until now, says Prof. Ron Naaman of the Institute's Chemical Physics Department (Faculty of Chemistry), both biologists and physicists have considered quantum systems and biological molecules to be like apples and oranges. But research he conducted together with scientists in Germany, which appeared recently in Science, shows that a biological molecule -- DNA -- can discern between quantum states known as spin.