Like a pinball game in the hands of a good player, a collection of obstacles randomly positioned can be sufficient to trap light without the need for an optical cavity. By adding amplification, at no cost, a mirrorless laser—often ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 5, 2021
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European colonists mistakenly labeled quolls as "native cats" when in fact they are among Australia's last living carnivorous marsupials.
Ecology
Sep 10, 2021
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Rattlesnakes increase their rattling rate as potential threats approach, and this abrupt switch to a high-frequency mode makes listeners, including humans, think they're closer than they actually are, researchers report August ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2021
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Rice is the world's most commonly grown and consumed crop. It also supports lives and livelihoods, especially in low- and middle-income regions. As such, methods for securing abundant and profitable rice harvests are key ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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As pervasive as they are in everyday uses, like encryption and security, randomly generated digital numbers are seldom truly random.
General Physics
Jun 29, 2021
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Results of a new study by Harvard researchers on the connections between a county jail in Chicago and the spread of COVID-19 in surrounding areas are offering lessons on pandemic preparedness and providing another argument ...
Social Sciences
Jun 10, 2021
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Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have discovered a new spintronic phenomenon—a persistent rotation of chiral-spin structure.
Condensed Matter
May 21, 2021
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In the critical battle against extinction, conservationists use a variety of tactics to try to save species.
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2021
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Recent advancements in the development of experimental Bell tests have enabled the implementation of a new type of device-independent random number generator. Remarkably, this new type of random number generators can be realized ...
An international team of scientists has developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred times faster than current technologies, paving the way towards faster, cheaper, and more secure data encryption in ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 25, 2021
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