Though hand-washing is proven effective in combating the spread of disease and infection, the physics behind it has rarely been studied. But in Physics of Fluids, researchers from Hammond Consulting Limited describe a simple ...
Soft Matter
Aug 17, 2021
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The remarkable structural properties of the Venus flower basket sponge (E. aspergillum) might seem fathoms removed from human-engineered structures. However, insights into how the organism's latticework of holes and ridges ...
General Physics
Jul 21, 2021
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In recent years, physical reservoir computing, one of the new information processing technologies, has attracted much attention. This is a physical implementation version of reservoir computing, which is a learning method ...
General Physics
Jun 17, 2021
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Researchers at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, and IBM Research Europe have recently proposed a new strategy to simultaneously achieve microscale hydrodynamic cloaking and shielding. ...
Wider clean chemistry applications of the extraordinary Vortex Fluidic Device—invented by Flinders University's Professor Colin Raston—are likely in the wake of new research that has been published outlining the seemingly ...
Materials Science
Jun 7, 2021
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Developing new ways to measure turbulent flows that are more efficient and reliable is the main objective of the NEXTFLOW research project at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), funded by an ERC Starting Grant from ...
General Physics
Jun 7, 2021
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In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection—not deep wastewater injections—can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production ...
Earth Sciences
May 10, 2021
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Nanochannels have important applications in biomedicine, sensing, and many other fields. Though engineers working in the field of nanotechnology have been fabricating these tiny, tube-like structures for years, much remains ...
Nanophysics
Apr 20, 2021
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Both oil production and geothermal energy need fluids to move through fracture channels within subsurface rocks. Yet accurately mapping and measuring fractures created for fluid flow is challenging, because what happens underground ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2021
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A research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and McGill University in Montreal is investigating what exactly happens underground when the earth in western Canada shakes as a result of hydraulic fracturing activities. ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2021
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