Dark Energy, Electric Rain, Chickadees

Today, you’ll learn about a tantalizing new discovery about dark energy that could change our understanding of the entire universe, how scientists are pulling electricity from raindrops, and the barcode memory tool inside a chickadee’s brain.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dark Energy&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>“A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/science/space/astronomy-universe-dark-energy.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Dennis Overbye. 2024.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“What Is Dark Energy? An Astrophysicist Explains.” <a href="https://youtu.be/JwVfa5U7tBs?si=gNZiP5Ew6TYi5Flt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ars Technica. YouTube Video. 2023.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“What is Dark Energy? Inside our accelerating, expanding universe.” <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/universe/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-these-days-and-dark-energy-is-responsible-so-what-is-dark-energy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Chelsea Gohd. 2024.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“DESI Data Documentation.” <a href="https://data.desi.lbl.gov/doc/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Database. 2023.</a>&nbsp;</li></ul>&nbsp;Electric Rain&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>“New green technology harvests energy from raindrops and humidity.” <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/new-green-technology-harvests-energy-raindrops-and-humidity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Robert F. Service. 2024.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“The Amazing Drinking Bird.” <a href="https://highschoolenergy.acs.org/what-is-energy/drinking-bird.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Brian Rohrig. 2024.</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“Rapid progress of key clean energy technologies shows the new energy economy is emerging faster than many think.” <a href="http://iea.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEA.org. 2023.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;Chickadees&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>“Chickadees use memory ‘bar codes’ to find their hidden food stashes.” <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chickadees-memory-food-neuroscience-bird" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Jake Buehler. 2024.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird.” <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00235-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Selmaan N. Chettih, et al. 2024.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“Birdist Rule #71: Figure Out What Kind Of Chickadees You’ve Got.” <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/birdist-rule-71-figure-out-what-kind-chickadees-youve-got" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Nicholas Lund. 2016.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories.” <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/memory-brain-engram-neuroscience" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Laura Sanders. 2018.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“A manifold neural population code for space in hippocampal coactivity dynamics independent of place fields.” <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124723011543" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Eliott Robert Joseph Levy, et al. 2023.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“Heterogeneous representations in the hippocampus.” <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016801022030167X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Kazumasa Z. Tanaka. 2021.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li></ul> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.