Humans make decisions using statistical information every day. Imagine you’re selecting a packet of jellybeans. If you prefer red jellybeans, you will probably try to find a packet that shows the most red (and less of the dreaded black ones) through the small window. But what about animals like giraffes? Since you can’t see all ...
Why is The Little Mermaid still one of the best stories for children? If you’ve been a fan or at least saw or heard of the story before, find out in-depth the positive impacts of the classical story and the lessons it has to teach. First published in 1837, The Little Mermaid was written in ...
Earth’s surface is the “living skin” of our planet — it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems. Over geological time, landscapes change as this surface evolves, regulating the carbon cycle and nutrient circulation as rivers carry sediment into the oceans. All these interactions have far-reaching effects on ecosystems and biodiversity — the many living ...
Experts have long understood that snakes can feel sound vibrations through the ground — what we call “tactile” sensing — but we’ve puzzled over whether they can also hear airborne sound vibrations, and particularly over how they react to sounds. In a new paper published in PLOS ONE, we conclude snakes use hearing to help ...
The Earth remains an evolving planet, and researchers at Stony Brook University are leading a research project that focuses on the interplay between the evolution of the landscape, climate, and fossil record of mammal evolution and diversification in the western United States. A little explored aspect of this geosciences research is the connection between gravitational ...
Researchers are a step closer to understanding how to prepare a perfect cup of coffee with the help of mathematics. Coffee is one of the most widely consumed drinks in the world, with estimates of more than a couple of billion cups consumed each day worldwide. Brewers have developed many methods to make the perfect ...
All magnets — from the simple souvenirs hanging on your refrigerator to the discs that give your computer memory to the powerful versions used in research labs — contain spinning quasiparticles called magnons. The direction one magnon spins can influence that of its neighbor, which affects the spin of its neighbor, and so on, yielding ...
Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science recently discovered rare deep-sea brine pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, a northern extension to the Red Sea. These salty underwater lakes hold secrets into the way oceans on Earth formed millions of years ago, and offer clues to life on other ...
Jules Verne could not even dream of this: A research team from the University of Bayreuth, together with international partners, has pushed the boundaries of high-pressure and high-temperature research into cosmic dimensions. For the first time, they have succeeded in generating and simultaneously analyzing materials under compression pressures of more than one terapascal (1,000 gigapascals). ...
Systems in which mechanical motion is controlled at the level of individual quanta are emerging as a promising quantum-technology platform. New experimental work now establishes how the quantum properties of such quantum systems can be measured without destroying the quantum state — a key ingredient for tapping the full potential of mechanical quantum systems. When ...
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