Scientists seeking lead-free materials for use in sensors, actuators and ultrasonic motors have recently focused their efforts on a type of ceramic commonly referred to as BCZT. New research by physicists at the University ...
Condensed Matter
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An exotic interaction between light and metal can be harnessed to make chemical reactions more sustainable, but the physics behind it has been widely debated in the field.
Nanophysics
Jul 18, 2017
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We learn in school that matter comes in three states: solid, liquid and gas. A bored and clever student (we've all met one) then sometimes asks whether glass is a solid or a liquid.
Condensed Matter
Jul 18, 2017
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Mathematicians at the Universities of York, Munich and Cardiff have identified a unique property of quantum mechanical particles – they can move in the opposite way to the direction in which they are being pushed.
Quantum Physics
Jul 18, 2017
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Smart cameras hidden in the countryside could soon help police fight back against rural crime and finally bring down secret smuggling routes.
Security
Jul 18, 2017
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South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology has introduced new low cost, high efficiency hydrocarbon fuel cells.
Materials Science
Jul 18, 2017
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Men continue to be much more likely to earn a degree in STEM fields than women, despite efforts made over the last few decades. New research from Cornell's Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) on fields of environmental ...
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2017
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After being hidden for centuries, the secrets within medieval manuscripts might soon come to light.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 18, 2017
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For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the forbidding landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia looking for clues to how ancient microbes could have produced ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 18, 2017
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Work to protect the iconic moorland of the Peak District and South Pennines is having a positive and statistically significant effect on the environment, research recently launched by The University of Manchester and the ...
Environment
Jul 18, 2017
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