For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do Have you ever wondered what Major Tom was looking at? Well now you can, but BEWARE this is a real time stealer! Those jolly folks at NASA have been kind enough to […]
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Bats and moths have been engaged in aerial warfare for nearly 65 Myr. This arms race has produced a suite of counter-adaptations in moths, including bat-detecting ears. One set of defensive strategies involves the active production of sound; tiger moths’ ultrasonic replies to bat attack have been shown to startle bats, warn the predators of
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In a week where we are celebrating the -50 year anniversary of First Contact with Zefram Cochrane on 5th April 2063, it reminds me of another recent story. This one concerns quantum entanglement of particles, which Einstein famously called “spooky at a distance”. A team of Chinese physicists have clocked the speed of spooky action
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