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Passengers at Crown Casino Melbourne will be forced to pre-commit to losses and time spent on poker machines as part of reforms introduced following the royal commission’s damning findings. Key points: The Victorian government has introduced a law requiring people to set a limit on their pokie losses at Crown Melbourne One advocate says the measure should apply to all state pokie venues Another set of actions aimed at combating money laundering The 12 actions are the latest in 33 recommendations from the Royal Commission to Casino Operators and Licensing, which found an “alarming catalog of errors” at Victoria’s only casino. Melbourne Casino — Victoria’s largest single-site company — has been able to maintain its license as long as it meets a number of requirements, including implementing reforms. US company Blackstone recently completed a takeover of Crown’s $8.9 billion operations in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Under a law introduced in Victoria today, all Australian residents in ca

Vancouver, BC and Ithaca, NY—A new study helps uncover why tropical mountain birds occupy such a narrow elevation range, a mystery that has baffled scientists for centuries. While many temperature assumptions are responsible for this limited distribution, recent research suggests competition from other species plays a larger role in shaping bird ranges. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, included 4.4 million citizen science observations of 2,879 bird species worldwide. The findings were published in Science on July 21. “You have incredible biodiversity in the mountains, especially in the tropics. From one scenic point in the Andes, you can see mountain slopes that are home to as many species as the rest of North America,” said lead author Benjamin Freeman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. “We want to know, how does it work?” Freeman and his collaborators obtained the range of data

The dark matter field of dark photons transforms into photons in a layered dielectric target. These photons are focused by the lens onto a small, low-noise SNSPD detector. The light emitted from the stack is approximately uniform except for a small region in the center where the mirror is absent. Credit: Chiles et al. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Perimeter Institute recently set new limits on dark photons, which are hypothetical particles and well-known candidates for dark matter. Their findings, presented in a paper published in Physical Review Letter This was achieved using the new superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) they developed. “There is close collaboration between our research groups at NIST and MIT, run by Dr. Sae Woo Nam and Prof. Karl Berggren, respectively,” Jeff Chiles, one of the researchers who carried o