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Nobody taught them: Scientists are stunned by how these tiny insects use the Milky Way as a guide to travel 1,000 km
The Bogong moth migrates 1,000 km, using stars in the Milky Way for navigation, a first for insects. They sense Earth's ...
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Australian Moths Are the First Known Insects to Navigate by the Stars, Revealing a Migratory Superpower
Every spring, billions of nondescript moths hatch in southeast Australia. Not long after, the brown insects—called Bogong ...
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'Thermoelectric permanent magnet' achieves record power density for energy harvesting
In joint research with The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and Nagoya University, the National Institute for Materials Science ...
Topological insulators boost ultra-thin magnet strength by 20% for next-gen electronics
A team of international researchers led by the University of Ottawa has made a breakthrough in the development of ultra-thin magnets—a discovery that could lead to faster, more energy-efficient ...
Vacuum fluctuations in optical cavities reveal hidden properties of embedded materials
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have theoretically demonstrated that ...