News tagged with damping
Exotic behavior when mechanical devices reach the nanoscale
Most mechanical resonators damp (slow down) in a well-understood linear manner, but ground-breaking work by Prof. Adrian Bachtold and his research group at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology has shown that resonators ...
May 15, 2011 |
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Dark ages seen in new light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Remnants of the first stars have helped astronomers get closer to unlocking the “dark ages” of the cosmos.
Jan 05, 2011 |
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One nano-step closer to weighing a single atom
By studying gold nanoparticles with highly uniform sizes and shapes, scientists now understand how they lose energy, a key step towards producing nanoscale detectors for weighing any single atom.
Jul 27, 2009 |
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The killer dinosaurs of south-eastern Australia
(Phys.org) -- At least seven different killer dinosaurs once lived in what is now south-eastern Australia, a new study has found.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 17, 2012 |
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Sulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks
Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. The group behind the results, presented in the Journal of Archaeological Science, includes scient ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 15, 2012 |
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Meteorite discovery spurs hunt for more pieces
(Phys.org) -- Meteorite fragments were recently scattered around Sutter’s Mill in California, the same region where the first nugget of gold was found that sparked the Gold Rush in 1848. Scientists believe ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2012 |
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Ancient volcanic blast provides more evidence of water on early Mars
(Phys.org) -- The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1 percent the density of Earth’s. It’s one of the reasons liquid water covers much of our planet but cannot exist on the Red Planet. As more research ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 04, 2012 |
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New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle
So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Looking inside the Earth
(Phys.org) -- Defects found in rocks below the Earth’s surface have a major impact on the transmission of seismic waves, such as those caused by earthquakes, researchers at The Australian National University ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Energy dissipation from vibrating gold nanoparticle strongly influenced by surrounding environment
Metal nanoparticles could play a key role in next-generation light detectors, optical circuits, and cancer therapies. For these future technologies to be realized, it is important to understand what happens ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Eclipses' effect on wind revealed
Solar eclipses don't just turn the lights out; they also make the wind slow down and change direction.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Neutrons uncover new density waves in fermion liquids
Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, one of the world's leading centres for neutron science, have carried out the first investigation of two-dimensional fermion liquids using neutron scattering, and discovered ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Liquid-like materials may pave way for new thermoelectric devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials—which convert heat into electricity and vice versa—researchers have identified a liquid-like compound whose properties ...
Mar 22, 2012 |
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