Most mammals walk at slow speeds and run or trot at intermediate speeds because these movement strategies are energetically optimal, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology by Delyle Polet and John Bertram ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2019
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Pioneering research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, into ancient tides during the Late Silurian—Devonian periods (420 million years ago—380 million years ago), suggests that large tides may have been ...
Evolution
Oct 23, 2020
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Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete process of the collision ...
Astronomy
Jul 14, 2022
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All-optical logic gates are essential elements for the optical processing of information, since they overcome the fundamental difficulties of their electronic counterparts, in particular the limited data transfer speed and ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 13, 2023
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Magnetic fields emerging from below the surface of the sun influence the solar wind—a stream of particles that blows continuously from the sun's atmosphere through the solar system. Researchers at NASA and its university ...
Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2014
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Chip-scale silicon photonics optical phased array (OPA) is widely used in free-space communication. However, due to the limitation of optical device design and manufacture, the distance between antennas in two-dimensional ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 15, 2021
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Tohoku University researchers have unveiled a new means of predicting how to synthesize new materials via the ion-exchange. Based on computer simulations, the method significantly reduces the time and energy required to explore ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 19, 2024
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A new database of plasma simulations, combined with observational data and powerful visualisation tools, is providing planetary scientists with an unprecedented way to explore some of the Solar System's most interesting plasma ...
Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2018
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Because modern computers have to depict the real world with digital representations of numbers instead of physical analogues, to simulate the continuous passage of time they have to digitize time into small slices. This kind ...
General Physics
Jan 3, 2013
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In the information era, photons and electrons are the main carriers of information transmission. Different from Moore's law in microelectronics, the density of integrated photonic devices is mainly limited by the wavelength ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 28, 2022
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