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- Self-driving golf carts
- Meet pentecopterus, a giant sea scorpion; Predator from prehistoric seas
- Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly
- Distant planet's interior chemistry may differ from our own
- Butterfly wings help break status quo in gas sensing
| Posted: 01 Sep 2015 05:48 PM PDT An experiment conducted over six days at a large public garden in Singapore demonstrated self-driving golf carts that ferried 500 tourists around winding paths trafficked by pedestrians, bicyclists, and the occasional monitor lizard. |
| Meet pentecopterus, a giant sea scorpion; Predator from prehistoric seas Posted: 01 Sep 2015 07:05 AM PDT You don't name a sea creature after an ancient Greek warship unless it's built like a predator. That's certainly true of Pentecopterus, a giant sea scorpion with the features of a penteconter, one of the first Greek galley ships. Researchers say Pentecopterus lived 467 million years ago and could grow to nearly six feet. It is the oldest described eurypterid -- a group of aquatic arthropods that are ancestors of modern spiders and ticks. |
| Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly Posted: 01 Sep 2015 07:03 AM PDT Electrical engineers have demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body. The new technology could offer a lower power and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems, researchers said. |
| Distant planet's interior chemistry may differ from our own Posted: 01 Sep 2015 07:03 AM PDT As astronomers continue finding new rocky planets around distant stars, high-pressure physicists are considering what the interiors of those planets might be like and how their chemistry could differ from that found on Earth. New work demonstrates that different magnesium compounds could be abundant inside other planets as compared to Earth. |
| Butterfly wings help break status quo in gas sensing Posted: 01 Sep 2015 07:03 AM PDT The unique properties found in the stunning iridescent wings of a tropical blue butterfly could hold the key to developing new highly selective gas detection sensors. |
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