News tagged with temperature synchronization

Circadian surprise: Mechanism of temperature synchronization in drosophila

New research reveals a pathway that links peripheral sensory tissues with a "clock" in the brain to regulate molecular processes and behaviors in response to cyclical temperature changes. The research, published by Cell Press ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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First mission for new ocean floor observatory

On Saturday, May 26, the German research vessel POSEIDON sailed from the port of Bergen, Norway, for an expedition to the Norwegian Sea. On board the newly developed ocean floor observatory, MoLab, is being ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where have all the hummingbirds gone?

(Phys.org) -- The glacier lily as it's called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and hummingbirds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hinode witnesses solar eclipse

(Phys.org) -- Spectacular images from the Hinode spacecraft show the solar eclipse, which darkened the sky in parts of the Western United States and Southeast Asia yesterday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium produced

Francesca Ferlaino’s research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations

A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Review: Windows 8 a big misstep for Microsoft

The venerable PC is at a crossroads. Sales growth has slowed to a crawl. And consumers and developers are increasingly turning their time and attention to smartphones and tablets.

Technology / Software

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 52

Sand layer plays a key role in protecting the underlying permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The effect of sand layer on the ground temperature of permafrost is one of the unsolved scientific problems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the sand layers were found to play a key role in the protection of the underlying permafrost ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt

A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, and it killed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

El Nino and the tropical Eastern Pacific annual cycle run to the same beat

Phase synchronization is a phenomenon in which separate oscillatory systems develop joint coherent behavior by some nonlinear mechanism. First described in 1673 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, this ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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