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Why peregrine falcons wear eyeliner, golden eagles could accelerate using turbulence

Physics World

Fans of American football know that players will smear dark makeup below their eyes to reduce glare when they are trying to catch fast-moving balls. Peregrine falcons have similar patterns of dark feathers below their eyes — called malar stripes – and it had been long thought that they perform a similar function.

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid 

Union of Concerned Scientists

On Monday morning, April 3, there were still more than 80,000 customers in the dark, according to PowerOutage.us. The focus of grid planning has traditionally been on meeting summer energy needs, and increasingly winter needs as well. This is ultimately for good reason because those two seasons trigger the highest energy demand.

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Ultra-black Fish Are “Living Black Holes”

Ocean Conservancy

Because of its intense pressure, utter darkness and freezing temperatures, the deep-sea habitat is not for everyone. They’re so dark that they resemble Vantablack, the manmade pigment that absorbs 99.965% of light that hits it. (If Why be ultra-black in the dark deep sea? use deep black coloring to stay hidden in the deep sea.

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The Canadian Energy Regulator again paints a future that contradicts federal climate commitments and fails to chart a course for success

Enviromental Defense

Big and important decisions about Canada’s energy future will continue to be made in the dark. The agency is the Canada Energy Regulator, and its mandate is “advising and reporting on energy matters.” The CER insists that Energy Futures involves “neutral, fact based analysis.” The IEA provides that analysis.

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From a light bulb solar system to the cosmological constant: a journey to becoming a cosmologist

Physics World

before she had heard of dark energy or supernovae? – ?curiosity I’m now actually using those distances to prove how dark energy is changing or shaping the way we see the universe.”. It’s definitely something that will not help a new generation to build careers in science.”. Even then ?– ?before

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Sterile neutrinos ruled out by MicroBooNE, but mysterious excess remains unexplained

Physics World

Indeed, it would be the first particle outside of the Standard Model of particle physics to be discovered since the 1960s – and some physicists think sterile neutrinos could be a candidate for dark matter. Neutrinos were first proposed in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli to account for missing energy and spin in the beta decay of nuclei.

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How nuclear information has been hidden – and brought to light

Physics World

Its mission, set out in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 , was to keep “all data concerning the manufacture or utilization of atomic weapons, the production of fissionable material, or the use of fissionable material in the production of power” in the hands of a carefully vetted few. Celebrating a century of nuclear isomers.

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