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Dark Energy, Electric Rain, Chickadees

May 22, 2024
Discover new findings on dark energy challenging existing theories, extracting electricity from raindrops for renewable energy, and uncovering chickadees' memory barcodes for food stashing.
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Quick takeaways

  • Dark energy may not be constant, potentially changing our universe understanding.
  • Chickadees use neural barcodes to remember food stash locations, revealing unique memory patterns.

Deep dives

Discovery about Dark Energy

The podcast discusses a significant discovery about dark energy made by an international team of astronomers as part of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project. They found irregularities suggesting that dark energy may not be constant but could vary over time, challenging previous assumptions and potentially changing our understanding of the universe.

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