Новости за 19.04.2024

It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another, but a trick from knot theory can help find spots where shifting orbits becomes easy

Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, defecate and die, they help store lots of carbon

By measuring how birds’ vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a physical model for how those muscles produce sound, researchers have pulled songs from the minds of sleeping birds

Identical twins seem to experience more similar levels of pleasure when listening to music than non-identical twins, which suggests it has a genetic element

Budget commits $825 million over five years to boost PhD stipends and postdoctoral fellowships, after over 20 years of stagnation

Curved wing tips inspired by the world's heaviest flying bird could enhance the efficiency of wind turbines by of 10 per cent, according to simulations

A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought

Teams of staff usually return e-scooters to where they will be needed, but adapted scooters that can balance and stop themselves, and be controlled remotely, are a step towards autonomous ones that can take themselves wherever they have to go

Mrs Sciencebase opted to follow the footpath from the RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith) car park to what we refer to as the “Clouded Yellow Field”, which is the patch where we saw that butterfly in numbers in 2022 and that leads on to Brownshill Staunch where I spotted the previously mentioned Sandwich Tern. It’s a … Continue reading "Reed Bunting, Emberiza Schoeniclus"

Parisian site used to prepare and store radioactive materials was first set to be demolished, then moved and will now become part of a museum

A focus on exams makes it harder for students to cultivate a deep understanding of their subject

Goldene synthesised via etching technique used in Japanese knife-making

New variant identified in Congolese mining town renews worries about global spread

Impact that created the asteroid also blasted out the famous Giordano Bruno crater