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Expedition finds Nemo can travel great distances to connect populations

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Clownfish spend their entire lives nestling in the protective tentacles of host anemones, but new research shows that as babies they sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres across the open ocean. Although the process of long-distance dispersal by reef fish has been predicted, this is the first time that the high level exchange of offspring between distant populations has been observed.

Dr Steve Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Global Change in Biosciences at the University of Exeter, and colleagues from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARC COE CRS), Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) have published their findings on the dispersal of Omani clownfish larvae in the journal PLOS ONE. (more…)

Research Paves Way for Cyborg Moth ‘Biobots’

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North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles. The work opens the door to the development of remotely controlled moths, or “biobots,” for use in emergency response. (more…)

Radar-Fernerkundung: Forschung für Landwirtschaft und Klima

By Guest PostSeptember 24, 2014Scienceflaechendeckende beobachtungen, hgf allianz, klimaforschung, radar fernerkundung, radaraufnahme, synthetic aperture radar

Das Erntejahr 2014 nähert sich dem Ende und in ganz Deutschland zeichnen sich für Weizen, Mais & Co. insgesamt gute Erträge ab. Standortabhängig zeigen sich jedoch extreme Unterschiede. Für optimalen Anbau ist es daher wichtig, den Zustand des Bodens und der Pflanze stets zu kennen. Radaraufnahmen sind besonders gut geeignet, flächendeckende Beobachtungen durchzuführen – per Flugzeug oder per Satellit. (more…)

Thick-skinned dinosaur gets the last laugh

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In life, Tyrannosaurus rex usually got the best of the less fearsome duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs: T. rex ate them.

But in death, the plant-eating hadrosaurs have proved more resilient than their carnivorous predators — and apparently all other dinosaurs — at least by the measure of their skin. (more…)

Die ersten modernen Menschen in Mitteleuropa

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Neue Ergebnisse aufgrund von Ausgrabungen in Willendorf in der Wachau

Die ersten modernen Menschen kamen vermutlich etwa vor 43.500 Jahren während einer kalten klimatischen Episode ins heutige Österreich. Ein multinationales Team unter der Leitung von Bence Viola (Universität Wien und Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig) und Philip Nigst (University of Cambridge und MPI Evolutionäre Anthropologie) analysierte Artefakte, die während einer erneuten Ausgrabung der Venusfundstelle Willendorf in der Wachau entdeckt wurden. Die Ergebnisse erscheinen in der aktuellen Ausgabe der renommierten Fachzeitschrift PNAS. (more…)

The source of the sky’s X-ray glow

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ANN ARBOR — In findings that help astrophysicists understand our corner of the galaxy, an international research team has shown that the soft X-ray glow blanketing the sky comes from both inside and outside the solar system.

The source of this “diffuse X-ray background” has been debated for the past 50 years. Does it originate from the solar wind colliding with interplanetary gases within our solar system? Or is it born further away, in the “local hot bubble” of gas that a supernova is believed to have left in our galactic neighborhood about 10 million years ago? (more…)

Neues aus der Materialphysik: Einzelne Siliziumatome in Graphen verschoben

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Seit einigen Jahren ist es möglich, einzelne Atome mit Hilfe eines Elektronenmikroskops abzubilden. Besonders eindrucksvoll gelingt dies bei Graphen, einer nur ein Atom dicken Schicht aus Kohlenstoffatomen. Einer Gruppe rund um Toma Susi, Physiker an der Universität Wien, ist es nun in Kooperation mit Teams aus Großbritannien und den USA gelungen, einzelne Siliziumatome im Graphen-Gitter zerstörungsfrei zu bewegen. Aktuell berichten die ForscherInnen im renommierten Journal “Physical Review Letters”, wie ihre Experimente mit Hilfe spezialisierter Mikroskopie-Techniken und aufwendiger Computerberechnungen glückten. (more…)

Engineering defects in diamond for quantum computing and subatomic imaging

By Guest PostSeptember 19, 2014Sciencedefects in diamond, diamond defect, nanoscale sensors, nuclear spins, spin coherence time, vacancy defects

By carefully controlling the position of an atomic-scale diamond defect within a volume smaller than what some viruses would fill, researchers have cleared a path toward better quantum computers and nanoscale sensors. They describe their technique in a paper published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing. (more…)

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