Science and SciFi
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/science/fluorescent-mammal-springhare.html Meet the Newest Member of the Fluorescent Mammal Club The springhare — whose coat glows a patchy pinkish-orange under UV light — joins the platypus and other mammals with this perplexing trait Relates post… Read More »Meet the Newest Member of the Fluorescent Mammal Club
Researchers have produced the most comprehensive platypus genome yet, as well as that of another monotreme, an echidna. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/science/platypus-genome-echidna.html
To be creative, you have to think differently, we have a tendency to be labelled strange, crazy, and even insane. The Disordered Mind by Erik R. Kandel.
Bosons — especially photons — have a natural tendency to clump together. In 1987, three physicists conducted a remarkable experiment demonstrating this clustering property, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect. Recently, researchers at ULB’s Centre for… Read More »Quantum interference in time
This is a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. A research team has for the first time experimentally proved a century old quantum theory that relativistic particles can pass through a… Read More »Sci-Advent – Perfect quantum transmission through barrier using sound
This is a reblog of a story in ScienceDaily. See the original here. Underwhelming results underscore the complexity of language evolution while showing promise in some current applications Researchers have investigated the ability of machine… Read More »Sci-Advent – New study tests machine learning on detection of borrowed words in world languages
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created a new carbon-based electrical device, π-ion gel transistors (PIGTs), by using an ionic gel made of a conductive polymer. This work may lead to cheaper and more… Read More »Sci-Advent – Flexible and powerful electronics
This is s a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. A newly-designed atomic clock uses entangled atoms to keep time even more precisely than its state-of-the-art counterparts. The design could help… Read More »Sci-Advent – New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely
The famous patient Henry Molaison (long known as H.M.) suffered damage to his hippocampus after a surgical attempt to cure his epilepsy. As a result, he had anterograde amnesia, which meant that things he learned… Read More »Sci-advent – How does the brain manage its learning?
This is a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. Quantum computers have already managed to surpass ordinary computers in solving certain tasks — unfortunately, totally useless ones. The next milestone is… Read More »Sci-Advent – Tiny quantum computer solves real optimization problem