Researchers discover that worms use electricity to jump
Jun 2023, phys.org
Travel by electric field -- "Caenorhabditis elegans worms can use electric fields to "jump" across Petri plates or onto insects, allowing them to glide through the air and attach themselves, for example, onto naturally charged bumblebee chauffeurs. Pollinators, such as insects and hummingbirds, are known to be electrically charged, and it is believed that pollen is attracted by the electric field formed by the pollinator and the plant."
via Hiroshima University: Takuma Sugi, Caenorhabditis elegans transfers across a gap under an electric field as dispersal behavior, Current Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.042
Image credit: AI Art - Crystal Man Smoking Crystalss - 2024
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators
Aug 2023, phys.org
^Who told you that was an ok title
(In defense, this is the title of the original article, which is usually changed by the writer of the press release, this one ostensibly from Peking University; assuming their AI title-generator had the day off.)
via Peking University: Shui-Jing Tang et al, Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators, Nature Photonics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01264-3
The solution space of the spherical negative perceptron model is star-shaped, researchers find
Jan 2024, phys.org
One of the main reasons I subject myself to reading the headlines of 300 science articles every week, is that I'm trying to lapse into a semantic trance where I'm reading English and yet at the same time, I'm reading a completely alien language. The two different parts of the brain, the one that knows words and the one that tries to figure out "what the f**k is going on" when novel situations appear, they vacillate, flickering for domination; it's kind of like a very low-level form of epilepsy, and some people like that kind of thing.
via Bocconi University, Politecnico di Torino and Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics: Brandon Livio Annesi et al, Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron, Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.227301.
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