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Older Trees Warn Others About Eclipse

Scientists from Australia's Southern Cross University (SCU) and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) recorded bioelectrical signals sent from older trees to warn others of an upcoming eclipse, so that they could conserve energy.

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Lightning Inducing Drone

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Researchers at NTT built a drone wrapped in a Faraday cage, flew it into a storm with a tethered conductive cable attached to a high-voltage on the ground, switched it on and induced a lightning strike through the drone. The system could be used to protect an area from lightning strikes by diverting them during a storm.

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Signal Emitting Bacteria Detectors

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Researchers at MIT have developed bacteria that can be added to crops and used as detectors that emit signals using colours of specific wavelengths. These colours can be monitored using hyperspectral imaging from 90 meters away to spot pollution and/or monitor soil health.

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A New Form Of Magentism

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Scientists in Sweden have demonstrated the existence of a new form of magnetism!

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Higher Yield Rice With 70% Reduced Methane

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Scientists in Sweden and China have developed a new strain of rice that produces higher yields and reduce methane emissions by 70%.

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Strong As Steel & Light As Foam Nano Material

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Researchers at the University of Toronto and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology used machine learning to design a nano-material that is strong as steel and light as foam and can be 3D printed at the micro and nano scale.

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How Mountains Are Measured

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This video by Encyclopedia Britannica gives a short description about how mountains can be measured differently.

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Understanding The Micro Scale

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Epic Spaceman on YouTube published a very slick video describing the scale of micro-organisms, using an accessible step scale rather than standard measurements to describe the vast distances around us.

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Information Entropy & Living In A Simulation

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Physicist Melvin Vopson has proposed that we may be living in a simulation due to his theory of Information Entropy being observed in Covid mutations, which he proposes do not develop randomly and according to the theory of evolution, but mutate according to his information Entropy theory which states that information entropy always remains the same or lower.

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60ms Odour Detection

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Chinese scientists have demonstrated that the human nose can differentiate between distinct odours as fast as 60ms apart, which is a similar speed to that of colour perception.

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