Новости за 31.01.2019

CAT scan-inspired printer produces whole objects in seconds

Technique could be 24% more energy efficient than an industry standard method

I’d consider this a quite rare sighting over our usual Rampton (Cambridgeshire) stamping ground but we saw a large hawk flying over a sheep-laden field adjacent to the spinney. Looked like a big Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and indeed that is what it is. Not a Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), wrong underwing patterning, apparently. One of my … Continue reading "Female Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)"

Smaller publishers may struggle to afford costs of satisfying open-access initiative’s rules

Female “fluff-ups” are first evidence of social learning in commonly studied songbirds

A catalyst that reacts only with aryl iodides, spurning bromides and chlorides

Five years after massive patch of warm water appeared, scientists take stock

A robot started off with no knowledge of itself, but through trial and error learned what it looked like and what abilities it had

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System for modifying square starting molecule could be gateway to numerous bioactive molecules

A citizen science project to improve access to malaria drugs

Fluorinated peroxides more stable than their non-fluorinated counterparts

Yes, for they are men driving those diggers and lorries on the Cottenham quarry north of Cambridge. I drove down Long Drove once again, yesterday, dog and bins in tow, in the vain hope of spotting the Hooded Crow and the Iceland Gull that have been hanging around with the other corvids and gulls in … Continue reading "The Quarrymen North of Cambridge"

On this week’s show: We check in on the progress of microbiome research in the clinic and the mysterious properties of a gene that triggers sleep

Ghostly 3D printer sculpts The Thinker before your eyes

Protests set to continue after researchers reject government’s offer

Yearlong investigation confirms irrigators are removing too much water

Cytochrome P450 variant for the hydroxylation of aliphatic and aromatic C–H bonds

thinking outside the box.