| 单词 | fairy circle |
| 例句 | The researchers trained an artificial intelligence model to comb through more than half a million satellite images of dryland regions looking for patterns that mimicked known fairy circles. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Mysterious patches of vegetation called fairy circles are well documented in the drylands of Australia and Namibia. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Now, there’s something new to argue about: To what extent are fairy circles found around the world? Satellites Show Mysterious Rings of Vegetation in More Parts of the World 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Researchers say Aboriginal people in Western Australia provided insights that may help settle a debate about the origin of mysterious small patches of barren earth known as “fairy circles.” News at a glance: Benin Bronze’s source, a supermassive black hole, and Aboriginal knowledge 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z In 2019, Natural Hydrogen Energy completed its 3.4-kilometer-deep well in the middle of a “water basin”—the local term for a fairy circle—and surrounded by corn and soybean fields. Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Among the new locations with potential fairy circles, the researchers found common soil and climate characteristics, such as low nitrogen and a lack of rainfall, respectively. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The new investigation, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that fairy circles tend to occur in poor, sandy soil, and confirms that they are restricted to arid landscapes. News at a glance: China’s S&T clusters, abundant fairy circles, and Arecibo’s next chapter 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Water competition, termites and poisons have all been credited with causing “fairy circle” formations in an African desert’s vegetation. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z They are known as “fairy circles,” and for a natural phenomenon with such a whimsical name, scientific debates over their origins have been heated. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z It usually expands as a ring that is known as a fairy circle. Missouri researchers share lessons from humongous fungus 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z In particular, he says, a few of the patterns are too small—just six feet across—compared with known fairy circles, which tend to span about seven to 39 feet across. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The only comparable pattern in nature so widely distributed, she said, are African fairy circles, rings in the brush that appear from Angola to South Africa. This ‘wonder of the Earth’ is the size of Minnesota and built by bugs 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The new study suggests that termites and plants may be jointly responsible for forming fairy circle landscapes in Namibia. Fishing for Clues to Solve Namibia’s Fairy Circle Mystery 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “The to and fro between opposing camps has often been nothing less than vitriolic,” said Michael Cramer, an ecophysiologist at the University of Cape Town who has studied fairy circles. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Until recently, fairy circles were only known in the Namib desert. The secret of Namibia's 'fairy circles' may be explained at last 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z “As expected in a topic as hotly debated as fairy circles, some researchers have criticized our work, and others have supported it,” Maestre says. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z A theoretical biologist at Princeton University, she wanted to understand how nature creates patterns on different spatial scales—from tigers’ stripes to landscape-level phenomena such as fairy circles. Fairy circles could be the handiwork of hungry termites and thirsty plants 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Despite the team’s attempt to solve the mystery, it seems the fairy circle scuffle flutters on. Fishing for Clues to Solve Namibia’s Fairy Circle Mystery 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “Each publication has been hailed as having finally ‘solved’ the fairy circle ‘mystery’ in the popular media,” Dr. Cramer said in an email, calling such reporting an approach that “is not the norm for science.” In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z But he does not believe the puzzle of the fairy circles is solved. Australia 'fairy circles' shed light on mystery - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The peculiar pockmarks, called “fairy circles,” were thought to exist exclusively in those two arid stretches. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z She and her husband, Princeton ecologist Rob Pringle, thought that fairy circles might be a good way to test the model. Fairy circles could be the handiwork of hungry termites and thirsty plants 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Lastly, the mysterious bare patches known as fairy circles have been found in Australia as well as Africa. Your Tuesday Evening Briefing: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Vladimir Putin 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z They used soil moisture sensors to collect continuous readings every 30 minutes of water content in the sand in and around fairy circles. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z "Because in Australia we find an identical fairy circle pattern, but without any explanatory correlation to termite or ant activity." Australia 'fairy circles' shed light on mystery - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z But new research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA has uncovered 263 additional sites where fairy circles might exist in areas from Madagascar to southwestern Asia. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Then, they built a mathematical model of the fairy circle ecosystem using field measurements, including soil type, vegetation, rainfall, and soil-water content. Mysterious fairy circles killed by water 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But scientists writing in March in found only one species consistently inhabiting even the youngest fairy circles—the sand termite Psammotermes allocerus—making it the most likely culprit. What Is It? Mystery Spots 2013-05-19T14:15:02.490Z After rain, the researchers found that grasses germinated both inside and outside fairy circles, but that within about 20 days virtually all of the young shoots inside a circle had died. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Stephan Getzin from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, said they were "a missing link in the debate about the origin of Namibian fairy circles". Australia 'fairy circles' shed light on mystery - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z For years, fairy circles—named for their resemblance to the circular formation of mushrooms known as “fairy rings”—have fascinated scientists and stirred up an intense debate over their provenance. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Water is life for all of Earth’s creatures, but for fairy circles, it’s death. Mysterious fairy circles killed by water 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Many organisms live in and around fairy circles, which range from one to 50 meters in diameter and persist for decades. What Is It? Mystery Spots 2013-05-19T14:15:02.490Z They also found that the top eight inches of soil within fairy circles quickly dried out, something they hypothesize is caused when established plants surrounding fairy circles actively draw water toward them. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z "I would say they are still a mystery because the brand new discovery needs to be further investigated. The same holds for the Namibian fairy circles. Science works generally pretty slowly," he said. Australia 'fairy circles' shed light on mystery - BBC News 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Understanding why fairy circles, or FCs, form is just a single piece of the puzzle. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z But scientists found only one species consistently inhabiting even the youngest fairy circles. Mysterious Desert 'Fairy Circles' Caused By Termites 2013-03-28T18:45:00.220Z Namibia’s so-called fairy circles have long puzzled scientists. The Top 10 ScienceNOWs of 2012 2012-12-20T19:03:19Z In Namibia’s sandy soil, this creates a vacuum effect that moves water from the interior of fairy circles toward the plants’ roots at the circle’s fringe and beyond. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Until then, he continued, “the mystery of the fairy circles, or at least what causes them, remains a mystery.” Observatory: Namibian ‘Fairy Circles,’ From Start to Finish 2012-07-02T22:38:41Z He and his colleagues used the term “FC-like” for the patterns identified in their research that share the same main characteristics of the fairy circles reported in Namibia and Australia. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z But when he and his wife returned to the region in 2007 and excavated a handful of fairy circles, they found no evidence of termites. Mysterious Fairy Circles Are 'Alive' 2012-06-27T22:00:00Z The barrier we have just passed would seem to be a fairy circle, shutting out all matters pertaining to human life. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Marion Meyer, a plant scientist at the University of Pretoria, said that while the new study showed “conclusively” that termites were not a factor, fairy circles might result from another plant, Euphorbia. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z He grew dependent on them as the years rolled on; a fairy circle of girls was always drawing him to them, and he was made one of them. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z One of these characteristics is a spatially periodic pattern: the tendency of fairy circles to exist in a gridlike formation with very little variation in the distances between them, Getzin says. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Then he stepped from the fairy circle and instantly crumbled away and mingled his dust with the earth. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Outside the fairy circle of the exquisite Moluccas, a tiny cluster of palm-clad islets gems the wide blue spaces of the lonely sea, unbroken for many leagues by any foothold possible for human habitation. Through the Malay Archipelago According to research Dr. Meyer has published, it produces a milky, toxic sap that might be killing the grass in spots where it once grew, causing fairy circles to form. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z There were still fairy circles in the grass; but they were attributed, not to fairy dances, but to unscientific farming and the absence of artificial phosphates. 'That Very Mab' “The study dilutes the term fairy circles, and it ignores the definition of fairy circles in the process,” he says. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Under that tree there is a fairy circle called The Dancing Place of the Goblin. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z On the contrary, it is believed that married life in fairy circles is regulated on the basis of the absolute submission of the wife to the husband. Irish Wonders One of the reasons so many different fairy circle theories persist, Dr. Cramer said, is that it is exceedingly difficult to prove causation for “a long-lived ecological pattern that cannot be replicated in the lab.” In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Catholicism, like a fairy circle, casts such a powerful spell upon one's whole life, that when one is deprived of it everything seems aimless and gloomy. Recollections of My Youth Getzin adds that the findings confirm “true fairy circles” only exist in the Namib Desert and Western Australia. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Then he confessed that they had fallen asleep under the yew where the fairy circle was, and from that moment he had seen nothing more of Iago. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Outside the door was a fairy circle—just such a circle as a long-armed man with a sweeping sword would make—and round it not twinkling fairies but dead men. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Researchers first proposed in 2004 that plants, in competition for water in this harsh ecosystem, may self-organize into fairy circles — an idea originally adapted from pattern-formation theory developed by the mathematician Alan Turing. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z There's but one man in Delhi can bring you within the fairy circle. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Even with the systematic global search in the new study, he says, “the authors failed to find spatially periodic vegetation gaps that are as strongly ordered as the genuine fairy circles.” Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Ignorance of what transpired in the fairy circle is not an invariable feature of legends like those we have been observing. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z It seemed as though some fairy circle enshrined her, within which no harm might possibly reach the gentle slave. The Circassian Slave, or, the Sultan's favorite : a story of Constantinople and the Caucasus For their latest study, Dr. Getzin and his colleagues spent three years examining fairy circles at 10 study sites across 620 miles of desert. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z "We do, Slibb, my boy, and we don't think much of fairy circles, either!" The Sea Fairies Walter Tschinkel, a Florida State University biologist, who has previously studied fairy circles and was not involved in the new study, agrees. Thousands More Puzzling ‘Fairy Circles’ Have Been Found around the World 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z By this time there was a little naked space of green round the bridge-head, like a fairy circle, into which the uninitiated might not penetrate. Bob, Son of Battle My childhood from my life is parted, My footstep from the moss which drew Its fairy circle round: anew The garden is deserted. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 He reported in 2013 that fairy circles were in fact generated by sand termites that damage grass roots. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z More leaping tree squirrels, more ruddy madronos and majestic oaks, more fairy circles of redwoods, and, still beside the singing stream, they passed a gate by the roadside. The Valley of the Moon My childhood from my life is parted, My footstep from the moss which drew Its fairy circle round: anew The garden is deserted. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse But someone other than Dr. Getzin will have to conduct such challenging experiments, because he has decided to retire from fairy circle research. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Plant rings look similar to fairy circles but are a distinct phenomenon, Dr. Getzin said — and so far, they have escaped the notice of other scientists. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z She continues to suspect, based on earlier studies, that something about the composition of fairy circle soil is inhibiting plant growth. In Hunt to Solve ‘Fairy Circle’ Mystery, One Suspect Is Dismissed 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z |
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