Twenty-five years ago, a U of A professor together with a newly minted alumnus, John Geiger, '81 BA, published Frozen in Time, a shocking and influential account of the Franklin expedition's disastrous final days. Lead poisoning. ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2014
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Let's face it: We're energy hogs. We want more light, we flip a switch. If we're hot, we crank up the AC, without a second thought on the power grid strain. It's what economists call inelastic demand – the resource is widely ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 10, 2014
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Manufacturing finesse, precision craftmanship and a love of all things quirky have produced the Apple Watch—Japan's real-life version.
Other
Sep 10, 2014
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Quantum photonics research could change the way we communicate, compute, and measure phenomena on the smallest scales possible. To probe these processes and design new technology that operates with single-photon and single-electron ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 10, 2014
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Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth. Understanding how objects are spinning, where their centers of mass are, and how their mass is distributed is crucial ...
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that for a wide range of ferromagnetic materials the direction of magnetization can be completely controlled by polarized light without ...
General Physics
Sep 10, 2014
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Biodiversity Research Institute's (BRI's) Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS's) Adirondack Program announced today that three new articles summarizing research on Adirondack ...
Ecology
Sep 10, 2014
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Graphene-based photodetectors have attracted strong interest because of their exceptional physical properties, which include an ultra-fast response across a broad spectrum, a strong electron–electron interaction and photocarrier ...
Nanophysics
Sep 10, 2014
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Lawrence Livermore seismologist Artie Rodgers is tapping into LLNL's supercomputers to simulate the detailed ground motion of last month's magnitude 6.0 south Napa earthquake.
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A Stanford engineering team has built a radio the size of an ant, a device so energy efficient that it gathers all the power it needs from the same electromagnetic waves that carry signals to its receiving antenna ...
Engineering
Sep 10, 2014
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