Ocean heat hit a record high in 2018, the United Nations said Thursday, raising urgent new concerns about the threat global warming is posing to marine life.
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2019
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Computers, cell phones and other devices are built from many small parts and components that are prone to poor performance and damage caused by overheating. As such, there is a market demand to develop machine parts that ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 27, 2019
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About 250 million years ago, when the Earth had no ice caps and the water around the equator was too hot for reptiles, sea level still rose and fell over time. Now, an international team of researchers has developed a way ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2018
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Whoever said rules were made to be broken wasn't a physicist. When something doesn't act the way you think it should, either the rules are wrong, or there's new physics to be discovered. Which is exactly what UConn's Connor ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 10, 2017
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Researchers based at Nagoya University discover ceramic material that contracts on heating by more than twice the previous record-holding material.
Materials Science
Feb 8, 2017
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Members of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Additive Manufacturing Initiative are among a group of researchers who have developed 3D printed materials with a unique property—instead of expanding when heated, they ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 25, 2016
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As the density of data stored on a hard drive gets close to multiple terabytes per square centimeter, the precision of the internal components is becoming increasingly significant. A*STAR researchers have designed a system ...
Engineering
Sep 21, 2016
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All over the world, engineers are beset by a niggling problem: when materials get hot, they expand.
Materials Science
Jun 9, 2016
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Groundwater extraction and other land water contribute about three times less to sea level rise than previous estimates, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study does not change the ...
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2016
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High-tech sponges of the infinitely small, nanoporous materials can capture and release gaseous or liquid chemicals in a controlled way. A team of French and German researchers from the Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris ...
Materials Science
Apr 7, 2016
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