Already famous for its uncanny ability to imitate other birds and mechanical devices, Australia's superb lyrebird can also imitate the panicked alarm calls of a mixed-species flock of birds while males are courting or even mating, a team including a Cornell researcher has found."The male superb lyrebird creates a remarkable acoustic illusion,...

 Quasiparticles are an essential tool to describe the complex processes resulting from strong interactions in solids. These quasiparticles can be accurately simulated and studied in a radically different system, namely an ultracold quantum gas. Now scientists have been able to observe in a real experiment how quasiparticles called Fermi polaro...

 EIRSAT-1, a student-built satellite from University College Dublin, has been successfully launched into space, officially becoming Ireland's first-ever satellite.The miniature cube satellite, or cubesat, designed, built, and tested at UCD under guidance of the European Space Agency (ESA), took flight at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Cali...

 Experiments have already begun to study the effect of solar radiation and temperature on macroalgae.Nine campaigns and new experiences in the Antarctic summerFor the UVigo team this is the ninth research campaign they are developing in Antarctica, where they have already carried out projects in the years 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016, 20...

 "There are places on Earth that we still haven't explored," said Matthew Siegfried, assistant professor of geophysics at Colorado School of Mines and a lead author of the paper, published March 9 in Geology. "We have now one sample trying to understand an environment that is one and a half times the size of the continental United States."Sinc...

 A bright dome of light pierced the night. As the light grew brighter and larger, it rose into the sky, taking the shape of a rocket dashing into space, a trail of exhaust left to mark its path."Liftoff," shouted Zach Muraskin, a senior studying physics at Carnegie Mellon University and the science team lead for Iris, a rover bound for the moo...

 Research has found marine heatwaves are affecting the breeding, diet and population size of little penguins along Western Australia's coast.The study, published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, used data from 1986 to 2019 to investigate the impacts of marine heatwaves on breeding outcomes, body condition, diet composition, population size a...

 Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals to have colonised the water column more than 518 million years ago, revealing a past dynasty of predators that scientists didn't know existed.The...

 Astronomers anticipate upcoming images of the Andromeda galaxy may hold vital cluesAlthough dark matter makes up 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly.Now, in a new study, an international team of researchers including Northwestern University astrophysicists has found that upcoming images from NASA's Nancy G...

 Hurricanes are more intense. Coastal populations are growing. Increased probability of flooding due to higher storm surges and rainfall is heightening the risk for catastrophic damage to the human and built environments in the path of these killer events. Against the backdrop of these complex challenges, FIU scientists are conducting hurrican...

 In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean. Each blob is twice the size of the Moon and likely composed of different proportions of elements than the mantle surrounding it...

Priority, if we talk about priorities we can think about many things that are our priorities like family, money, health, education, relations, food, etc, there isn't any end to priorities, we can keep on discussing our priorities. But if we go deep into the beginning of our lives, education is the most important priority for everyone. Although it w...

 Research at Real-Time Systems Laboratory covers the dependability and timeliness of distributed systems. We conduct research into dependability attributes such as safety, reliability, availability, and integrity. The latter two are also hallmarks of security.Dependable systems are those for which reliance on the system's services is justified...

 The welfare of carnivores in zoos is enhanced when improvements are made to their enclosures, a study suggests.Nottingham Trent University research revealed how carnivores became significantly more active and engaged more with their enclosures when given additional enrichment such as different types of feeding, new structures, the introductio...

 Bat numbers declined as Britain's trees were felled for shipbuilding in the early colonial period, new research shows.The study, by the University of Exeter and the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), found Britain's Western barbastelle bat populations have dropped by 99% over several hundred years.Animals' DNA can be analysed to discover a "signat...

 28 November, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town for a special region: Two expeditions in East Antarctica will focus on the history of the instability of the ice sheet there and its interactions with ocean circulation. On the first leg, which will last around two months and be led by GEOMAR, the main focus will be on oceanog...

The profile-forming research cluster attempts to understand systems in which the units interact directly with each other and continuously react to each other and the environment. Nature is often a model for such processes in economics, psychology and technology.Nature shows us many phenomena that can be successfully described, analyzed and modeled ...

 Columbia Engineers design a robot hand that is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms — it doesn't rely on vision to manipulate objectsThink about what you do with your hands when you're home at night pushing buttons on your TV's remote control, or at a restaurant using all kinds of cutlery...

 The discovery of phosphorus in a molecular cloud at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy challenges current views of how the element originates and extends the galactic habitable zone.Astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered excephosphorus, a critical ingredient for life as we know it, in an unexpected location: the outskirts of t...

 Study of crossbred butterflies suggests multiple genes involved.When animals of two different species mate, their hybrid offspring can be unhealthy or sterile. Often, only one sex is affected.Sexual differences in fertility follow a pattern known as Haldane's Rule, which states that hybrids are afflicted more when they inherit two different s...