Bumblebees can learn to pull strings for food and pass on the ability to a colony, according to new research. …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 4, 2016
Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink
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•Scientists have now harnessed a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly write tiny patterns in metallic “ink,” forming features in liquid that are finer than half the width of …read more Source:: Science
Earthquake risk: New fault discovered in earthquake-prone Southern California region
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•A swarm of nearly 200 small earthquakes that shook Southern California residents in the Salton Sea area last week raised concerns they might trigger a larger earthquake on the southern …read more Source:: Science
‘Atomic sandwiches’ could make computers 100X greener
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•Researchers have engineered a material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while consuming a fraction of the energy that today’s electronics …read more Source:: Science
Detonating white dwarfs as supernovae
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•A new mathematical model created by astrophysicists details a way that dead stars called white dwarfs could detonate, producing a type of explosion that is instrumental to measuring the extreme …read more Source:: Science