Re: SCIENCE and things like that
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:35 am
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When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed the juice on the open wound — and then used the leaves as a poultice to cover his injury.
"This case represents the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer, the first author of a paper about the revelation, told NPR.
Unfortunately its insurance plan denied coverage.Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 11:37 pm Primate observed administering medicine
When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed the juice on the open wound — and then used the leaves as a poultice to cover his injury.
"This case represents the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer, the first author of a paper about the revelation, told NPR.
Researchers at the University of Washington reported in August 2023 that in a stack of two atomically thin crystalline sheets offset from each other at a slight angle, electrons behaved like quasiparticles with fractional amounts of charge, such as −⅔ and −⅗. A few months later, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported the same effect in another material. It was the first time that electrons had formed fractional quasiparticles without the enabling influence of a magnetic field.
While predictions about the possibility of this particular effect date back to 2011, theorists are still puzzling over the new discovery. It’s not clear how the underlying mechanism works in the MIT group’s material; calculations from several groups neither fully explain the fractional states nor agree. Other, even odder quantum phases of matter may also be present.
The new discovery isn’t incidental, or specific to a material. Rather, it’s universal and fundamental — the result of the quantum nature of the electron, albeit a behavior that has until now stayed hidden. While condensed matter physicists want to understand the breadth of electron behaviors for their own sake, there’s always the chance of uncovering the basis of a world-changing technology. In this case, the newfound effect may carry the seeds of long-sought quasiparticles with stable memories that could underpin a new and powerful approach to quantum computing.