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- The cosmic web: Seeing what makes up the universe
- Astronomers closer to explaining mysterious radio pulses from outer space
- Distracted walking: A serious issue for you, not me
- Money affects children's behavior, even if they don't understand its value
- Students build electric-powered personal flying machine
- Camouflaged cuttlefish employ electrical stealth
| The cosmic web: Seeing what makes up the universe Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:29 AM PST Matter known as ordinary, which makes up everything we know, corresponds to only 5% of the Universe. Approximately half of this percentage still eluded detection. Numerical simulations made it possible to predict that the rest of this ordinary matter should be located in the large-scale structures that form the "cosmic web" at temperatures between 100,000 and 10 million degrees. A team led by a researcher observed this phenomenon directly. The research shows that the majority of the missing ordinary matter is found in the form of a very hot gas associated with intergalactic filaments. |
| Astronomers closer to explaining mysterious radio pulses from outer space Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:29 AM PST Astronomers have tied the origin of a Fast Radio Burst to a highly magnetized, gas-filled region of space, providing a new hint in the decade-long quest to explain the mysterious radio pulses. |
| Distracted walking: A serious issue for you, not me Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:27 AM PST A new study on distracted walking finds that more than three quarters (78 percent) of US adults believe that distracted walking is a 'serious' issue; however, 74 percent of Americans say 'other people' are usually or always walking while distracted, while only 29 percent say the same about themselves. |
| Money affects children's behavior, even if they don't understand its value Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:26 AM PST The act of handling money makes young children work harder and give less, according to new research. The effect was observed in children who lacked concrete knowledge of money's purpose, and persisted despite the denomination of the money. |
| Students build electric-powered personal flying machine Posted: 02 Dec 2015 06:54 AM PST Engineering students have successfully built Singapore's first personal flying machine, dubbed Snowstorm, which they envision as a clean and simple way to realize our dreams of flying. |
| Camouflaged cuttlefish employ electrical stealth Posted: 01 Dec 2015 09:08 PM PST In addition to its visual camouflage, the Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) has a stealth technology to protect itself from predators that might detect it in the electrical spectrum. The 'bioelectric fields' it masks aren't anything like the 500 volts an electric eel produces, they're just a tiny electrical artifact of the ion exchanges caused by the animal's metabolic processes, 75,000 times weaker than the voltage of an AAA battery. |
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