Paleontologists have found a fossil site in North Dakota that contains animals and plants killed and buried within an hour of the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs 66 million …read more Source:: Science
Month: March 2019
Quantum optical cooling of nanoparticles
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One important requirement to see quantum effects is to remove all thermal energy from the particle motion, i.e. to cool it as close as possible to absolute zero temperature. Researchers …read more Source:: Science
Venus flytrap ‘teeth’ form a ‘horrid prison’ for medium-sized prey
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Researchers investigate the importance of marginal spikes, the ‘teeth’ lining the outer edge of the plant’s snap traps, in successfully capturing prey. …read more Source:: Science
Yellowstone elk don’t budge for wolves, say scientists
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Elk roam the winter range that straddles the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park with little regard for wolves, according to a new study illustrating how elk can tolerate living …read more Source:: Science
Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in AD 400
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Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of ‘starvation food’ eaten in times when other resources were lacking. Now, a study …read more Source:: Science
Widespread losses of pollinating insects in Britain
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Many insect pollinator species are disappearing from areas of Great Britain, a new study has found. Research showed one third of wild pollinator species experienced declines in terms of areas …read more Source:: Science
Listening to the quantum vacuum
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Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are advancing knowledge about the limits on …read more Source:: Science
Matter waves and quantum splinters
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Physicists have shown that shaking ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates can cause them to either divide into uniform segments or shatter into unpredictable splinters, depending on the frequency of the shaking. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft unveils speedy type checker for Python
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By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has unveiled Pyright, an open source static-type-checking system for Python that aims to be faster than existing type-checking solutions for Python such as Mypy. Written in TypeScript and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Traffic control of cells
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Researchers develop a hydrogel whose stiffness and permeability to cells can be controlled with light. …read more Source:: Science