Online April Fools' Day Jokes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, on April 1, you have to be careful of what you read on the Web. Everyone is putting up April Fools' Day jokes.
News tagged with adaptability
'Anna Karenina principle' explains bodily stress and stockmarket crashes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory that reveals the intrinsic mechanism of adaptation crises, from human adaptation to hard living conditions, to a bank collapse or stockmarkets going from boom to bust has been put forward by ...
General Physics
Nov 2, 2010
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Carmakers rapidly adding semi-autonomous features
Fully self-driving cars are a few years into the future. But some of the technology that will make them possible is already here.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 8, 2015
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Climate change forces Arctic animals to shift feeding habits: study
Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.
Ecology
Mar 6, 2019
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Protein 'passport' helps nanoparticles get past immune system
The body's immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs, and implanted devices like ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 21, 2013
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A new instrument gives the Very Large Telescope an even sharper view of the cosmos
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in northern Chile, is undoubtedly one of the premier ground-based observatories. But a new infrared instrument recently installed on the telescope has made the VLT even better.
Astronomy
Nov 25, 2022
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Sloth movement secrets revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies of the movements of sloths have revealed more information about how they move around in the trees, traveling upside down.
Subaru's sharp eye confirms signs of unseen planets in the dust ring of HR 4796 A
(PhysOrg.com) -- The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical ...
Astronomy
Dec 30, 2011
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Astronomers probe inner region of young star and its planets
Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt), and are published ...
Astronomy
Apr 20, 2015
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Cutting-edge Adaptive Optics Facility sees first light
The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed into a fully adaptive telescope. After more than a decade of planning, construction and testing, the new Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) ...
Astronomy
Aug 2, 2017
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