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Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake

Posted: 07 Oct 2021 11:57 AM PDT

Images from the Perseverance rover confirm that Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake, MIT researchers report. The team also detected signs of flash flooding strong enough to carry large boulders downstream into the ancient delta.

Quantum networking milestone in real-world environment

Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:21 AM PDT

A team has developed and demonstrated a novel, fully functional quantum local area network, or QLAN, to enable real-time adjustments to information shared with geographically isolated systems using entangled photons passing through optical fiber.

Dragonflies likely migrate across the Indian Ocean

Posted: 04 Oct 2021 07:41 AM PDT

Can dragonflies migrate thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean, from India via the Maldives to Africa, and back again? An international research team has used models and simulations to find out if the hypothesis could be true.

Great apes' consonant and vowel-like sounds travel over distance without losing meaning

Posted: 28 Sep 2021 04:38 PM PDT

Scientists have shown that orangutan call signals believed to be closest to the precursors to human language, travel through forest over long distances without losing their meaning. This throws into question the accepted mathematical model on the evolution of human speech.