An international research team led by scientists at Beihang University in China and The University of Texas at Dallas has developed high-strength, super-tough sheets of carbon that can be inexpensively fabricated at low temperatures.
Nanomaterials
May 7, 2018
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Scientists have designed a heat-insulating material made from wood that is both light and strong and made entirely from tiny, stripped-down wood fibers.
Materials Science
Mar 12, 2018
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Flip a lobster on its back, and you'll see that the underside of its tail is split in segments connected by a translucent membrane that appears rather vulnerable when compared with the armor-like carapace that shields the ...
Materials Science
Feb 19, 2019
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Researchers from Stanford have advanced a long-standing problem in quantum physics – how to send "entangled" particles over long distances.
Quantum Physics
Nov 25, 2015
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Life on Earth is a glorious dance of data. From the songs of backyard birds to the chemical exchanges of forest trees, the exchange of information between living things is an essential part of its existence and evolution. ...
Astrobiology
Sep 7, 2023
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(Phys.org)—Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock. Scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel's Technion ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 10, 2013
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A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and chemical threats, such as those used ...
Materials Science
Oct 8, 2021
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Chris Cesare in Nature reported on Friday that Terence Tao successfully attacked the Erdős discrepancy problem by building on an online collaboration. Tao is a professor in the math department at UCLA. He works primarily ...
Few terms are more ubiquitous in the scientific arena these days than "quantum."
Optics & Photonics
Mar 3, 2021
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NTT and three partners- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Fujikura Ltd., Hokkaido University, and Technical University of Denmark—demonstrated ultra-large capacity transmission of 1 petabit (1000 terabit) per ...
Telecom
Sep 21, 2012
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