Increasing oil's performance with crumpled graphene balls
When an automobile's engine is improperly lubricated, it can be a major hit to the pocketbook and the environment.
Nanomaterials
Jan 25, 2016
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Vegetarian diets may be better for the planet, but the Mediterranean diet is the one omnivores will actually adopt
What we eat and how we produce food matters. Food systems are responsible for more than a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment
Jul 18, 2022
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Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axions
Physicists from MIT and elsewhere have performed the first run of a new experiment to detect axions—hypothetical particles that are predicted to be among the lightest particles in the universe. If they exist, axions would ...
General Physics
Mar 28, 2019
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Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change
Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms known collectively as phytoplankton, which grow throughout the ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2020
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Qubits composed of holes could be the trick to build faster, larger quantum computers
A new study indicates holes the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, potential scaling up of qubits to a mini-quantum computer.
Quantum Physics
Apr 2, 2021
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Chirality yields colossal photocurrent
A recently discovered Weyl semimetal delivers the largest intrinsic conversion of light to electricity of any material, an international team lead by a group of Boston College researchers reports today in the journal Nature ...
General Physics
Mar 4, 2019
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Molecular circuitry: Team breaks one-diode-one resistor electronics
An international team with ties to UCF has cracked a challenge that could herald a new era of ultra-high-density computing.
Nanomaterials
Jun 2, 2020
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Flow-through electrodes make hydrogen 50 times faster
Electrolysis, passing a current through water to break it into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen, could be a handy way to store excess energy from wind or solar power. The hydrogen can be stored and used as fuel later, when the ...
Materials Science
May 26, 2020
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Unwinding the mystery of degraded reel-to-reel tapes
Crooner Bing Crosby knew a thing or two about sound. In 1947, recognizing that recorded music sounded better on magnetic reel-to-reel tape than on vinyl records, he invested in a company to develop equipment to record his ...
Materials Science
Apr 8, 2020
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Hitting the quantum 'sweet spot': Researchers find best position for atom qubits in silicon
Researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) working with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) have located the 'sweet spot' for positioning qubits in silicon to scale ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 30, 2020
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