Tag: cosmos
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Interactions. Robots. Dead flowers…
Researchers have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, without relying on touch at all. Instead, a USB camera located inside the robot captures the shadow movements of hand gestures on the robot’s skin and classifies them with machine-learning software. (1)…
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Dimensions. Dimensionless.
By adding some magnetic flair to an exotic quantum experiment, physicists produced an ultra-stable one-dimensional quantum gas with never-before-seen ‘scar’ states – a feature that could someday be useful for securing quantum information. (1) One dimension things. Three dimension space. Four dimension experiences. Multi dimension beings. Funny. No one cares about the element that makes…
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“Seeing” blue light…
Plants can perceive and react to light across a wide spectrum. New research shows how plants can respond to blue light in particular by revealing the structure of cryptochrome-2, the molecule that reacts to blue light. (1) “Seeing” blue light. How mundane. Our whole perception enslaved into mere interactions. Our whole thought dictated by things…
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New genes! New inventions! So?! (Me!)
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor. (1) Things discovered. Only because they would anyway be. By someone else. In the…
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A distant aroma…
Asian spices such as turmeric and fruits like the banana had already reached the Mediterranean more than 3000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. A team of researchers has shown that even in the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in food was already connecting distant societies. (1) Smell that forest. Close your eyes. There is…
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