Researchers predict material with record-setting melting point
Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance.
Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance.
Condensed Matter
Jul 27, 2015
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Researchers from Brown University have used satellite data to detect deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, the glasses just might provide a delicate window ...
Space Exploration
Jun 8, 2015
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Life may seem precarious for the sea sponge known as Venus' flower basket. Tiny, hair-like appendages made essentially of glass are all that hold the creatures to their seafloor homes. But fear not for these creatures of ...
Materials Science
Apr 6, 2015
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A team of scientists has a new explanation for the planet Mercury's dark, barely reflective surface. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers suggest that a steady dusting of carbon from passing comets has ...
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2015
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Chemists from Brown University have found a way to make new 2-D, graphene-like semiconducting nanomaterials using an old standby of the semiconductor world: silicon.
Nanomaterials
Mar 26, 2015
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Research led by a Brown University Ph.D. student has revealed a new way to make light-absorbing perovskite films for use in solar cells.
Nanomaterials
Mar 17, 2015
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NWA 7034, a meteorite found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is like no other rock ever found on Earth. It's been shown to be a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian crust, and according to a new analysis, rocks ...
Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2015
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Brown University evolutionary biologist Sohini Ramachandran has joined with colleagues in publishing a sweeping analysis of genetic and linguistic patterns across the world's populations. Among the findings is that geographic ...
Social Sciences
Jan 20, 2015
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Ample evidence of ancient rivers, streams, and lakes make it clear that Mars was at some point warm enough for liquid water to flow on its surface. While that may conjure up images of a tropical Martian paradise, new research ...
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2014
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New research by physicists from Brown University puts the profound strangeness of quantum mechanics in a nutshell—or, more accurately, in a helium bubble.
General Physics
Oct 28, 2014
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