Understanding how dust grains form in interstellar gas could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop useful nanoparticles.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 13, 2023
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In a warming world, coal can often seem the "bad guy." But we can do other things with coal besides burn it. A team at Ohio University used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2 system to carry out a series of ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 5, 2023
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In recent years, many physicists and material scientists have been studying superconductors, materials that can conduct direct current electricity without energy loss when cooled under a particular temperature. These materials ...
Scientists have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet, the new study has important implications for understanding how land plants affect the climate.
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2022
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Materials scientists at UNSW Sydney have shown that human pluripotent stem cells in a lab can initiate a process resembling the gastrulation phase—where cells begin differentiating into new cell types—much earlier than ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2022
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Material scientists at RIKEN have created a self-healing polymer by using an off-the-shelf compound for the first time. The strategy they used is promising for improving the durability and minimizing the environmental impact ...
Polymers
Dec 14, 2022
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Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected: tiny metallic snowflakes.
Nanomaterials
Dec 9, 2022
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Nanoparticles have been used to develop high-strength materials for structural applications. But these nanoparticles are often thermally unstable, leading to rapid coarsening in a high-temperature environment.
Nanophysics
Nov 15, 2022
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Scientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal.
Polymers
Oct 26, 2022
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Magnetic matter can be regulated by ultrafast laser pulses in the field of ferromagnetism. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Sangeeta Sharma and a team of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany ...
