Mineral oil lubricants protect engine parts from wear, and this effect is enhanced by adding polymer nanoparticles to the lubricating oil. A UK team has now discovered that epoxy functionalization of these nanoparticles further ...
Nanophysics
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New developments for achieving structural coloring through plasma irradiation of graphite can reduce the reliance upon harmful color dyes. Colors achieved by plasma irradiation are completely erasable and can be manipulated ...
Analytical Chemistry
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In a small lab nestled in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, researchers with gloved hands and masked faces cradle four tiny golden monkeys so a veterinarian can delicately slide a needle under the thin skin of each sedated animal's ...
Plants & Animals
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Mammals that live in groups may generally live longer than members of solitary species, suggests a Nature Communications paper. The findings are based on an analysis of nearly 1,000 mammals —including the golden snub-nosed ...
Plants & Animals
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Dutch officials have identified a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow disease", in a cow carcass, the agriculture ministry said Wednesday.
Veterinary medicine
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An international team of space scientists reports that the moon exerts a tidal impact on the plasmasphere. For their paper published in the journal Nature Physics, the group used data from multiple spacecraft over a nearly ...
China's stricter clean heating policies have improved air quality in northern China, particularly in Beijing and surrounding cities—potentially reducing premature deaths due to air pollution in 2021 by more than 23,000 ...
Environment
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In the search for new forces and interactions beyond the Standard Model, an international team of researchers involving the PRISMA Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 1, 2023
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A collaboration between Associate Professor Tsuda Akihiko's research group at Kobe University's Graduate School of Science and AGC Incorporated has succeeded in synthesizing various useful compounds from perchloroethylene ...
Materials Science
Feb 1, 2023
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Carnegie Mellon University physicists in Pittsburgh are one step closer to building new particle detectors for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Plasma Physics
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