Sea Creatures. Bees’ Needs: Caffeine. It turns out humans aren’t the only ones getting a buzz from coffee. Caffeine can improve memory among honeybees and lead to better plant pollination, according to a recent study published in the journal Science. Researchers led by Geraldine Wright, a professor of neurobiology at Newcastle University in the UK, found that the nectar of citrus flowers, such as those of grapefruit and lemon plants, as well as coffee flowers that produce the ‘arabica’ species used for espresso and filter coffees contain low doses of caffeine. To entice bees to feed on these flowers, Wright and her team trained the insects to associate food with the smell of the flowers.
They also trained another group of bees to feed on nectar from the flowers that was sweetened with a sugar, but not did not contain caffeine. After 24 hours, the bees trained on the caffeinated flowers returned to these these plants three times as often as those trained on the sweetened flowers returned to their uncaffeinated plants. Schrödinger's Cat could be visible after all.
Schrödinger's Cat could be (almost) as easy to observe as the internet's millions of LOLcats, with confirmation that there may be a way round Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle after all. Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa have used a comparatively new technique to directly measure for the first time the polarization states of light.
Their work has implications for the weird Uncertainty Principle, which states that certain properties of a quantum system can be known only poorly if other related properties are known precisely. The direct measurement technique was first developed in 2011 by scientists at Canada's National Research Council to measure the wavefunction - a way of determining the state of a quantum system.
Such direct measurement had long been believed to be impossible on the basis that you could never fully understand a quantum system through direct observation. A Tour of Plasma Physics in Downtown Cambridge. Behind this unassuming door, off a small side street in Cambridge Massachusetts, is the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
There's little indication that inside scientists are using some of the most powerful magnetic fields in the world to manipulate the same stuff that the Sun is made of. The first stop was the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. A tokamak is a kind of nuclear reactor that physicists hope will someday power cities the of the future. Inside the big blue cylinder is a hollow, doughnut shaped cavity where powerful magnetic fields start out by compressing disperse plasma ions into a dense ring. The ring heats up, and a nuclear reaction starts to take place when ions get close to each other. Usually two ions repel because they have the same charge, just like how two north pole magnets with the same poles repel each other.
But if they have enough energy, the ions can overcome that repulsion and knock right into each other. Unfortunately scientists are not nearly there. Sharks & Rays. Transhuman. Nikola Tesla. 30 years of Space Shuttle history. The Sun, Auroras & Solar Flares. Clione.ru | Main. Complete MSL Curiosity Descent - Full Quality Enhanced 1080p + Heat Shield impact. The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest. Environ. Res. Lett. 1 (October–December 2006) 014005doi:10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014005 The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest Ilan Koren1, Yoram J Kaufman2, Richard Washington3, Martin C Todd4, Yinon Rudich1, J Vanderlei Martins2,5,6 and Daniel Rosenfeld7 1 Department of Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute, Israel2 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA3 Climate Research Lab, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK4 Department of Geography, University College London, UK5 Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA6 Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil7 Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Received 27 July 2006Accepted 4 October 2006Published 30 October 2006 Contents 1. 2.
As estimated in several field experiments combined with Aeronet measurements and models [17–21]. 3. Acknowledgments. Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2. Multimedia - Video Gallery. GISS: Mars24 Sunclock — Time on Mars. The Mars24 software displays a Mars sunclock, a graphical representation of the planet Mars showing its current sun- and nightsides, along with a numerical readout of the "standard" Mars time as well lander and other local times. Other displays include a plot showing the relative orbital positions of Mars and Earth and a diagram showing the solar angle and path for a given location on Mars. Mars24 is a cross-platform application that runs on Macintosh, Windows, Linux and other desktop computers. The current version of Mars24 is 7.1.1, released 2015-12-30. Get Mars24 Mars24 requires a computer with a Java SE 7 or 8 runtime environment installed. Download Mars24 Documentation and Credits Other information available here includes: Also on the GISS website is a 1998 science brief titled "Telling Time on Mars".
For the latest news about the NASA Mars rovers, see the official NASA/JPL Mars Exploration website. Contact. Home | ZomBee Watch. Data Access for SDSS DR9 - SDSS-III. Data Release 9 includes three types of data: images, spectra, and catalog data (parameters measured from images and spectra, such as magnitudes and redshifts). The SDSS web sites offer several different online data access tools, each suited to a particular need. The primary websites are: These are described in more detail on the available tools page. The tables below provide links to the appropriate tools for various common tasks. If your question isn't addressed here, please take a look at the FAQ and/or tutorial help pages. If you are having difficulty connecting to any data server, please check the status page for announcements about planned outages.
Data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey is not available in DR9, but is available in its entirety at the SDSS-II Supernova Survey website. Images The SDSS has taken deep images of more than one-third of the entire night sky. Spectra DR9 includes all spectra from SDSS-I/-II including SEGUE-I/-II, and all BOSS spectra through July 2011. William Shatner and Wil Wheaton welcome NASA's Curiosity rover to Mars (video)
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I must admit I am no aquascaping expert, however I am deeply intoxicated by this addictive planted aquarium hobby. It is a learning process every day for me as I venture deeper into this amazing realm. My experience with planted aquariums has definitely been a long and winding journey, filled with its very own ups and downs. I started off with Marine aquariums as I was fascinated with the vibrancy of the colours brought out by live corals and exotic fishes. Marine aquariums are an amazing learning process, with the influx of knowledge on landscaping, compatibility, chemistry, light spectrum and equipment.
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