It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today's classical computers aren't fast or efficient enough to solve, but the emerging "probabilistic computer" could bridge the gap between ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 18, 2019
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A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European 'year without a summer' of 1816.
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2019
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A new study finds that the muscles in bats' wings operate at a significantly lower temperature than their bodies, especially during flight.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
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Cold temperatures are not nearly as deadly as heat, with around 2% of all deaths in Australia related to heat, according to new research from the University of Technology Sydney.
Environment
Sep 10, 2019
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Researchers have identified a receptor protein that can detect when winter is coming.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 29, 2019
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Physicists have found "electron pairing," a hallmark feature of superconductivity, at temperatures and energies well above the critical threshold where superconductivity happens.
Superconductivity
Aug 21, 2019
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Chinese cabbage is part of a crop family that must be exposed to cold temperatures for a particular period of time in order to flower. Scientists have succeeded in comprehensively identifying the long noncoding ribonucleic ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2019
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Nearly every atmospheric science textbook ever written will say that hurricanes are an inherently wet phenomenon—they use warm, moist air for fuel. But according to new simulations, the storms can also form in very cold, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2019
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The fact that millions of North American monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles each fall and somehow manage to find the same overwintering sites in central Mexican forests and along the California coast, year after year, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 24, 2019
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A heat wave will continue to keep much of the Eastern United States in its grip Sunday, while a cold front that could lower temperatures in the middle of the country may be accompanied by thunderstorms that threaten flash ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2019
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