Success for entangled Napier penguin s hunger for the wild
4 May, 2021 11:40 PM
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Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium supervisor birds, releases the latest rehabilitated penguin to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary. Photo / Supplied
Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium supervisor birds, releases the latest rehabilitated penguin to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
The story of the kororā (little penguin) found tangled in a fishing line two weeks ago has had a happy ending.
On Monday he was released to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary by Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium of New Zealand supervisor birds, and Liv Flynn of Hawke s Bay Bird and Wildlife Rescue Charitable Trust.
BEN TURNER, LIVE SCIENCE
4 MAY 2021
Scientists have gotten one step closer to a quantum internet by creating the world s first multinode quantum network.
Researchers at the QuTech research center in the Netherlands created the system, which is made up of three quantum nodes entangled by the spooky laws of quantum mechanics that govern subatomic particles. It is the first time that more than two quantum bits, or qubits that do the calculations in quantum computing have been linked together as nodes or network endpoints.
Researchers expect the first quantum networks to unlock a wealth of computing applications that can t be performed by existing classical devices - such as faster computation and improved cryptography.
Humpback whale caught in fishing line in Hawaii, rescuers cut line wrapped around mouth and flipper
12 Mar, 2021 05:46 AM
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The young humpback whale had about 30 metres of line entangled in its mouth and flipper. Photo / NOAA
The young humpback whale had about 30 metres of line entangled in its mouth and flipper. Photo / NOAA
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A young humpback whale swimming off the Hawaiian island of Maui has been freed of about 30m of line entangled in its mouth and flipper.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary coordinated the effort in partnership with local businesses and organisations, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported on Wednesday (Thursday NZT).
Quantum Holograms Could Make Ridiculously Detailed Images of Our Bodies And Cells
HUGO DEFIENNE, THE CONVERSATION
20 FEBRUARY 2021
Once, holograms were just a scientific curiosity. But thanks to the rapid development of lasers, they have gradually moved centre stage, appearing on the security imagery for credit cards and bank notes, in science fiction movies – most memorably
Star Wars – and even live on stage when long-dead rapper Tupac reincarnated for fans at the Coachella music festival in 2012.
Holography is the photographic process of recording light that is scattered by an object, and presenting it in a three-dimensional way. Invented in the early 1950s by the Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor, the discovery later earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.
Little blue penguin s lucky escape from fishing line in Napier
18 Jan, 2021 01:19 AM
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Hawke s Bay Bird and Wildlife Rescue members release the kororā/little blue penguin back into the wild, near where it was rescued from Ahuriri Napier. Video / Supplied
Hawke s Bay Bird and Wildlife Rescue members release the kororā/little blue penguin back into the wild, near where it was rescued from Ahuriri Napier. Video / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
Hawke s Bay fishers are being urged to take great care after a rescued kororā/little blue penguin almost lost its leg when it became entangled piece of fishing line.