The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released a catalog of results from the first half of its third observing run (O3a), and scientists have detected more than three times as many gravitational waves ...
Astronomy
Oct 29, 2020
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An experiment, elegant in its simplicity, helps explain why water becomes electrified when it touches hydrophobic surfaces.
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2020
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With the ever-increasing digitalization of our society, the question arises as to what potential this digital change has for climate protection. On behalf of the business association swisscleantech and the mobile phone operator ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2020
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Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they move away from each other, researchers have measured the expansion rate of the universe (the Hubble constant) and ...
Astronomy
Oct 29, 2020
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Galaxies die quickly—that is the conclusion of a new study that examines the mechanism that switches galaxies from an active star-forming phase to one of quiescence.
Astronomy
Oct 29, 2020
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Small modular nuclear reactors could provide nuclear power to small communities and rural areas currently served by environmentally damaging fossil fuel energy-sources. Assessing the potential of these reactors means keeping ...
General Physics
Oct 29, 2020
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Much mystery surrounds dark energy and the cosmological constant, the proxies used to explain the accelerating expansion of the Universe. New research suggests that an early model of dark energy presents a competing theory ...
Astronomy
Oct 29, 2020
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Recently, a research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science showed a way to achieve high thermoelectric properties in n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 (BTS).
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2020
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Carbonyl groups are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals, natural products, and agricultural chemicals, especially amides. Transition metal-catalyzed decarbonylation offers a distinct synthetic strategy for new chemical bond formation ...
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2020
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Glutathione S-transferases (GST) is one of the most important phase II detoxification enzymes. It achieves detoxification by catalyzing the nucleophilic attack of glutathione (GSH) on the electrophilic center of the target ...
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2020
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