Tag: detector
Zoo Lunch Mishap Reveals Lizards’ Hidden Fire Detector
Zoo Lunch Mishap Reveals Lizards’ Hidden Fire Detector Australian “sleepy” lizards are not so sleepy when it comes to fire By Clarissa Brincat edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier The smell of smoke activates this otherwise “sleepy” lizard Tiliqua rugosa, also known as the shingleback skink or bobtail lizard. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! The…
See the RHOC Cast Squirm While Taking a Lie Detector Test
The Real Housewives of Orange County cast sat down for an anxiety-inducing polygraph test to uncover liars in the friend group, as seen in E! News’ exclusive sneak peek at the Bravo series. The truth is about to come out. The Real Housewives of Orange County all sit down for a nerve-wracking polygraph test in…
Miniature Neutrino Detector Catches Elusive Particles at Nuclear Reactor
Miniature Neutrino Detector Promises to Test the Laws of Physics A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine A nuclear power plant in Liebstadt, Switzerland, hosted the CONUS+ neutrino detector. Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a…