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- Physicists probe light smashups to guide future research
- Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests
- Augmented reality helps tackle fear of spiders
- World-famous sardine migration explained by genomics
- Engineers grow pancreatic 'organoids' that mimic the real thing
- Personality matters, even for squirrels
| Physicists probe light smashups to guide future research Posted: 20 Sep 2021 12:20 PM PDT Light has no mass, but Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can convert light's energy into massive particles. Physicists studied matter-generating collisions of light and showed the departure angle of their debris is subtly distorted by quantum interference patterns in the light prior to collision. Their findings will help physicists accurately interpret future experiments aimed at finding 'new physics' beyond the Standard Model. |
| Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests Posted: 20 Sep 2021 12:19 PM PDT Researchers measured the potassium isotope compositions of Martian meteorites in order to estimate the presence, distribution, and abundance of volatile elements and compounds, including water, on Mars, finding that Mars has lost more potassium than Earth but retained more potassium than the moon or the asteroid 4-Vesta; the results suggest that rocky planets with larger mass retain more volatile elements during planetary formation and that Mars and Mars-sized exoplanets fall below a size threshold necessary to retain enough water to enable habitability and plate tectonics. |
| Augmented reality helps tackle fear of spiders Posted: 20 Sep 2021 07:09 AM PDT Researchers have developed an augmented reality app for smartphones in order to help people reduce their fear of spiders. The app has already shown itself to be effective in a clinical trial, with subjects experiencing less fear of real spiders after completing just a few training units with the app at home. |
| World-famous sardine migration explained by genomics Posted: 15 Sep 2021 01:13 PM PDT Scientists have discovered how the Sardine Run, one of the world's biggest migration events, works. This spectacular event, considered the 'Greatest Shoal on Earth', involves the movement of hundreds of millions of sardines from their cool-temperate core range into the warmer subtropical waters of the Indian Ocean, on South Africa's east coast. |
| Engineers grow pancreatic 'organoids' that mimic the real thing Posted: 13 Sep 2021 10:56 AM PDT Engineers developed a way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic cells. Their models could help researchers develop and test potential drugs for pancreatic cancer. |
| Personality matters, even for squirrels Posted: 10 Sep 2021 09:17 AM PDT Humans acknowledge that personality goes a long way, at least for our species. But scientists have been more hesitant to ascribe personality to other animals. A study has now documented personality in golden-mantled ground squirrels, which are common across the western U.S. and Canada. |
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