Italian physicist Carlo Di Castro, professor emeritus at the University of Rome Sapienza, Italy, shares his recollections of how theoretical condensed matter physics developed in Rome, starting in the 1960s. Luisa Bonolis, ...
General Physics
Mar 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Rabbit, a brown-recluse spider, is fastened to the proverbial treadmill in Hannes Schniepp's Nanomaterials & Imaging lab. She is restrained but relaxed. Her spinnerets are churning out exquisite ribbons of silk. ...
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2014
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Insulation materials of tomorrow must be both efficient and environmentally friendly. Fraunhofer scientists are developing insulation foam made from wood that could re- place petrochemical plastics in the long term.
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —One of the longest time-series of phytoplankton (microalgae) data in the Southern Hemisphere has revealed that phytoplankton are declining in the waters off Sydney.
Environment
Mar 10, 2014
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Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) have developed wireless sensors able to detect minute fissures in industrial machinery by the ultrasonic sounds they emit, with which the fault can be located early ...
Engineering
Mar 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Innovative methods of drug discovery do not always take place in an academic laboratory. They may start there, but they can also happen in orbit aboard the International Space Station, as protein crystallization ...
Biochemistry
Mar 10, 2014
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Once again, computer screensavers have flexed their muscles and solved a great mystery of biology.
Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2014
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New evidence from the 2011 Census shows that ethnic minorities in England and Wales have become increasingly better qualified than their White British counterparts.
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2014
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U.S. officials say they plan to set up a sweeping system of electronic monitoring that will tap into government, financial and other databases to scan the behavior of many of the 5 million federal employees with secret clearances.
Security
Mar 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists are using genetics to save endangered koala populations from the perils of urbanisation.
Ecology
Mar 10, 2014
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