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- Evolutionary theory of economic decisions
- How airplanes counteract St. Elmo's Fire during thunderstorms
- Most close relatives of birds neared the potential for powered flight but few crossed its thresholds
- Digital content on track to equal half 'Earth's mass' by 2245
- Storing energy in red bricks
- Mathematical patterns developed by Alan Turing help researchers understand bird behavior
- X-rays indicate that water can behave like a liquid crystal
- New method to determine the origin of stardust in meteorites
| Evolutionary theory of economic decisions Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT When survival over generations is the end game, researchers say it makes sense to undervalue long shots that could be profitable and overestimate the likelihood of rare bad outcomes. |
| How airplanes counteract St. Elmo's Fire during thunderstorms Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:02 AM PDT A new study finds windy conditions can weaken St. Elmo's fire, the phenomenon when electrically conductive structures spontaneously emit a flash of blue light, when it's generated by aircraft and other ungrounded objects. |
| Most close relatives of birds neared the potential for powered flight but few crossed its thresholds Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:02 AM PDT New research has resulted in an updated evolutionary tree of early birds and their closest relatives to reconstruct powered flight potential, showing it evolved at least three times. Many ancestors of the closest bird relatives neared the thresholds of powered flight potential, suggesting broad experimentation with wing-assisted locomotion before flight evolved. |
| Digital content on track to equal half 'Earth's mass' by 2245 Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:02 AM PDT As we use resources to power massive computer farms and process digital information, our technological progress is redistributing Earth's matter from physical atoms to digital information. Eventually, we will reach a point of full saturation, a period in our evolution in which digital bits will outnumber atoms on Earth, a world 'mostly computer simulated and dominated by digital bits and computer code,' according to a new article. |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:01 AM PDT Red bricks -- some of the world's cheapest and most familiar building materials -- can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new research. Chemists have developed a method to make or modify 'smart bricks' that can store energy until required for powering devices. A proof-of-concept study shows a brick directly powering a green LED light. |
| Mathematical patterns developed by Alan Turing help researchers understand bird behavior Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:01 AM PDT Scientists have used mathematical modelling to understand why flocks of long-tailed tits segregate themselves into different parts of the landscape. |
| X-rays indicate that water can behave like a liquid crystal Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:01 AM PDT Scientists have discovered that water can exhibit a similar behavior like a liquid crystal when illuminated with laser light. This effect originates by the alignment of water molecules, which exhibit a mixture of low- and high-density domains that are more or less prone to alignment. The results are based on a combination of experimental studies using X-ray lasers and molecular simulations. |
| New method to determine the origin of stardust in meteorites Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:01 AM PDT Scientists have made a key discovery thanks to stardust found in meteorites, shedding light on the origin of crucial chemical elements. |
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