Canada has been battling a very active and destructive fire season on multiple fronts this year. A warming climate, very dry environment, and more extreme weather including severe thunderstorms has led to massive wildfires ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 9, 2019
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A government report this month highlighted the frequency of computer outages at airlines, which can stop passengers from checking in for flights, and even prevent planes from taking off.
Business
Jun 30, 2019
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Microscopy just got reinvented—again.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 20, 2019
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Those who boarded slave ships from the Bight of Benin, or the Slave Coast of Africa, lost more than their homes—they lost their identities. New maps of a former kingdom made by a University of Colorado Boulder professor, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 18, 2019
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Researchers have developed a unique high-resolution imaging method that can capture mid-infrared spectral images of fast events or dynamic processes that take place on the order of milliseconds. This spectral range is used ...
Optics & Photonics
May 23, 2019
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What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling "spidey senses" of Spider-Man?
Nanophysics
May 20, 2019
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A room temperature polariton nano-laser has been demonstrated, along with several related research findings, regarding topics such as polariton physics at the nanoscale and also applications in quantum information systems. ...
Quantum Physics
May 20, 2019
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New findings reported by LMU researchers challenge a generally accepted model of echolocation in bats. They demonstrate that bats require far less spatial information than previously thought to navigate effectively.
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2019
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I recently attended a large meeting of faculty to discuss graduate students' evaluation, recruitment and retention.
Internet
May 1, 2019
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The sonar system of bats exploits spatial information in a way similar to our sense of sight, despite the different anatomy of eyes and ears. In a new study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 24, 2019
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