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- The songs of fin whales offer new avenue for seismic studies of the oceanic crust
- Spontaneous quantum error correction demonstrated
- Scientist proposes a new timeline for Mars terrains
- Hubble uncovers concentration of small black holes
- Play and meaty food reduce hunting by cats
- Vaporised crusts of Earth-like planets found in dying stars
- Family ties explain mysterious social life of coral gobies
- New wearable device turns the body into a battery
- Placing cosmological constraints on quantum gravity phenomenology
- Baby vampire bat adopted by mom's best friend
- Collective worm and robot 'blobs' protect individuals, swarm together
| The songs of fin whales offer new avenue for seismic studies of the oceanic crust Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:11 PM PST The songs of fin whales can be used for seismic imaging of the oceanic crust, providing scientists a novel alternative to conventional surveying. |
| Spontaneous quantum error correction demonstrated Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:11 PM PST Physicists take a step toward building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. They have realized a novel type of QEC where the quantum errors are spontaneously corrected. |
| Scientist proposes a new timeline for Mars terrains Posted: 11 Feb 2021 11:44 AM PST A scientist has updated Mars chronology models to find that terrains shaped by ancient water activity on the planet's surface may be hundreds of millions of years older than previously thought. This new chronology for Mars, based on the latest dynamical models for the formation and evolution of the solar system, is particularly significant as the days count down until NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lands on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021. |
| Hubble uncovers concentration of small black holes Posted: 11 Feb 2021 11:43 AM PST Scientists were expecting to find an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397, but instead they found evidence of a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there. New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have led to the first measurement of the extent of a collection of black holes in a core-collapsed globular cluster. |
| Play and meaty food reduce hunting by cats Posted: 11 Feb 2021 08:39 AM PST Domestic cats hunt wildlife less if owners play with them daily and feed them a meat-rich food, new research shows. |
| Vaporised crusts of Earth-like planets found in dying stars Posted: 11 Feb 2021 08:38 AM PST Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by astronomers, offering a glimpse of the planets that may have once orbited them up to billions of years ago. |
| Family ties explain mysterious social life of coral gobies Posted: 11 Feb 2021 06:01 AM PST The strange social structure of tiny fish called emerald coral gobies may be explained by family loyalty, new research shows. |
| New wearable device turns the body into a battery Posted: 10 Feb 2021 11:20 AM PST A team of engineers has developed a new device that you can wear like a ring or bracelet and that harvests energy from your own body heat. |
| Placing cosmological constraints on quantum gravity phenomenology Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:33 AM PST Researchers have used well-established cosmological observations to place tighter constraints on the quadratic model of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle, while discrediting the linear model. |
| Baby vampire bat adopted by mom's best friend Posted: 09 Feb 2021 05:41 PM PST The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other's baby. |
| Collective worm and robot 'blobs' protect individuals, swarm together Posted: 09 Feb 2021 12:18 PM PST Individually, California blackworms live an unremarkable life eating microorganisms in ponds and serving as tropical fish food for aquarium enthusiasts. But together, tens, hundreds, or thousands of the centimeter-long creatures can collaborate to form a 'worm blob,' a shape-shifting living liquid that collectively protects its members from drying out and helps them escape threats such as excessive heat. |
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