Macquarie University researchers have developed an improved laser system that will help large optical telescopes to gather more accurate data.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 3, 2020
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Pulsars, a type of rotating neutron star, are well-known as incredibly stable astrophysical clocks. Their regularity, used to measure their radio pulses, has led to some of the most exciting tests of Einstein's general theory ...
Astronomy
Mar 19, 2020
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Need to reduce high-pitched noises? Science may have an answer.
General Physics
Mar 17, 2020
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Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2020
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A team of researchers from France, Germany and Belgium has found evidence that neither nature nor nurture leads to personality differences—it is the result of nonheritable noise during brain development. In their paper ...
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3-D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 25, 2020
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In conventional sensing methods, noise is always a problem, especially in systems that are meant to detect changes in their environment that are hardly bigger or even smaller than the noise in the system. Encountering this ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 14, 2020
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The most direct and strongest evidence for the accelerating universe with dark energy is provided by the distance measurements using type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) for the galaxies at high redshift. This result is based on the ...
Astronomy
Jan 6, 2020
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Exposure to underwater pile driving noise, which can be associated with the construction of docks, piers, and offshore wind farms, causes squid to exhibit strong alarm behaviors, according to a study by Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2019
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At a time when ocean noise is receiving increased global attention, researchers at Oregon State University and NOAA have developed an effective method to use an underwater robotic glider to measure sound levels over broad ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2019
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