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- Squid skin-inspired cup cozy will keep your hands cool and your coffee hot
- Ancient helium leaking from core offers clues to Earth's formation
- Marmoset monkeys solve hearing tests on the touchscreen
- Chaos theory provides hints for controlling the weather
- Mysterious death of carbon star plays out like six-ring circus
| Squid skin-inspired cup cozy will keep your hands cool and your coffee hot Posted: 28 Mar 2022 10:37 AM PDT Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers have invented an adaptive fabric that can be used to insulate the contents of coffee cups, to-go boxes and containers of almost any size. In a new paper, the researchers describe the manufacturing process they developed which enables economical mass production of their novel material. |
| Ancient helium leaking from core offers clues to Earth's formation Posted: 28 Mar 2022 10:36 AM PDT Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a solar nebula, which has long been debated. |
| Marmoset monkeys solve hearing tests on the touchscreen Posted: 28 Mar 2022 08:26 AM PDT Researchers have developed an automated auditory training program that marmoset monkeys can perform in their familiar environment on a voluntary basis. The team has accomplished getting non-human primates to complete a series of tests in which they hear different sounds and then match them to the appropriate, previously learned visual stimuli by clicking on a touchscreen. This allows scientists to track which sounds the animals can hear and discriminate. |
| Chaos theory provides hints for controlling the weather Posted: 28 Mar 2022 07:13 AM PDT Researchers have used computer simulations to show that weather phenomena such as sudden downpours could potentially be modified by making small adjustments to certain variables in the weather system. They did this by taking advantage of a system known as a 'butterfly attractor' in chaos theory, where a system can have one of two states -- like the wings of a butterfly -- and that it switches back and forth between the two states depending on small changes in certain conditions. |
| Mysterious death of carbon star plays out like six-ring circus Posted: 28 Mar 2022 06:20 AM PDT Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star's mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. The team discovered six slowly-expanding rings and two hourglass-shaped structures caused by the high-speed ejection of matter out into space. |
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