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- Light-controlled Higgs modes found in superconductors; potential sensor, computing uses
- Counting elephants from space
- Researchers create 'sheets' of meat in the lab that stack up well against their natural counterparts
- Cosmic beasts and where to find them
- Eggs reveal what may happen to brain on impact
- All-purpose dinosaur opening reconstructed
- Obese, snoring mini pigs show how air flows through the throat during sleep apnea
- Appreciating a flower's texture, color, and shape leads to better drone landings
- 50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia
- One-dimensional quantum nanowires fertile ground for Majorana zero modes
- Dinosaur-era sea lizard had teeth like a shark
| Light-controlled Higgs modes found in superconductors; potential sensor, computing uses Posted: 19 Jan 2021 04:43 PM PST Researchers have discovered a short-lived form of the famous Higgs boson -- subject of a groundbreaking search at the Large Hadron Collider -- within an iron-based superconductor. This Higgs mode can be accessed and controlled by laser light flashing on the superconductor at trillions of pulses per second. |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2021 11:02 AM PST Scientists have successfully used satellite cameras coupled with deep learning to count animals in complex geographical landscapes, taking conservationists an important step forward in monitoring populations of endangered species. |
| Researchers create 'sheets' of meat in the lab that stack up well against their natural counterparts Posted: 19 Jan 2021 09:20 AM PST Researchers have developed a new form of cultivated meat using a method that promises more natural flavor and texture than other alternatives to traditional meat from animals. |
| Cosmic beasts and where to find them Posted: 19 Jan 2021 08:44 AM PST Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope. These galaxies are thought to be amongst the largest single objects in the Universe. |
| Eggs reveal what may happen to brain on impact Posted: 19 Jan 2021 08:44 AM PST Our brains consist of soft matter bathed in watery cerebrospinal fluid inside a hard skull, and in a new article, researchers describe studying another system with the same features, an egg, to search for answers about concussions. Considering that in most concussive brain injuries, the skull does not break, they wanted to find out if it was possible to break or deform the egg yolk without breaking the eggshell. |
| All-purpose dinosaur opening reconstructed Posted: 19 Jan 2021 08:44 AM PST Researchers have described in detail a dinosaur's cloacal or vent -- the all-purpose opening used for defecation, urination and breeding. |
| Obese, snoring mini pigs show how air flows through the throat during sleep apnea Posted: 19 Jan 2021 08:44 AM PST A study has found that obese Yucatan mini pigs have naturally occurring sleep apnea and that MRI scans taken while they're in sedated sleep can be used to gain new insights into what happens in the airways during sleep apnea episodes via computational flow dynamic (CFD) analysis. |
| Appreciating a flower's texture, color, and shape leads to better drone landings Posted: 19 Jan 2021 08:44 AM PST Researchers present an optical flow-based learning process that allows robots to estimate distances through the visual appearance (shape, color, texture) of the objects in view. This artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning strategy increases the navigation skills of small flying drones and entails a new hypothesis on insect intelligence. |
| 50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia Posted: 19 Jan 2021 07:28 AM PST The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug's physical characteristics -- from the bold banding pattern on its legs to the internal features of its genitalia -- are clearly visible and well-preserved. Recovered from the Green River Formation in present-day Colorado, the fossil represents a new genus and species of predatory insects known as assassin bugs. |
| One-dimensional quantum nanowires fertile ground for Majorana zero modes Posted: 19 Jan 2021 07:28 AM PST One-dimensional quantum 'nanowires' - which have length, but no width or height - provide a unique environment for the formation and detection of a quasiparticle known as a Majorana zero mode, which are their own antimatter particle. A new advance in detection of these exotic quasiparticles has potential applications in fault-resistant topological quantum computers, and topological superconductivity. |
| Dinosaur-era sea lizard had teeth like a shark Posted: 19 Jan 2021 07:28 AM PST New study identifies a bizarre new species suggesting that giant marine lizards thrived before the asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago. |
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