Newswise — Whenever light interacts with matter, light appears to slow down. This is not a new observation and standard wave mechanics can describe most of these daily phenomena. For…
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How sea anemones living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents avoid metal poisoning
Life near deep-sea hydrothermal vents can be pretty metal — literally. In addition to crushing pressures, total darkness and scorching temperatures, poisonous plumes belch from beneath the Earth’s surface. Exhaust…
Open tools used for a security chip
The security chip (at the middle of the bottom) is built in flip-chip technology on an auxiliary board and plugged into a standard socket on the main board. The main…
A review of energy supply for biomachine hybrid robots
Scientists from the Beijing Institute of Technology reviewed the various energy supply methods for Biomachine Hybrid Robots. Credit: Jieliang Zhao Beijing Institute of Technology Bio-machine hybrid robots (BHRs) represent a…
UK’s first local Net Zero Carbon planning policy likely to drive more efficient buildings and cut energy bills: Review
The new planning policy makes Bath and its surroundings, known for historic architecture, an important testbed for future national regulations. Credit: Nic Delves-Broughton / University of Bath The UK’s first…
NASA’s Voyager team focuses on software patch, thrusters
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling on a different trajectory, its…
Juno completes its closest flyby of Io yet
Not since the Galileo mission ended 20 years ago have we seen such great images of Io. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam instrument on October 15th…
Amazon rainforest hides over 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks |
Archaeologists have used cutting-edge remote sensing technology, combined with statistical modelling, to estimate that there are more than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks hidden beneath the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. The…
Small islands struggle to get help from the Green Climate Fund
While small islands still say the Green Climate Fund is better than the rest, they are facing problems getting money from it Government officials from small island developing states (Sids)…
