The explosive reaction of a liquid metal dropping into water has been captured with high-speed cameras by researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. The images reveal how the ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 7, 2016
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered a peculiar feature in oscillations similar to that of a child's swing. As a result, they have succeeded in outlining a novel principle for small, high-resolution sensors, and have ...
General Physics
Oct 6, 2016
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Light, when strongly concentrated, is enormously powerful. Now, a team of physicists led by Professor Jörg Schreiber from the Institute of Experimental Physics – Medical Physics, which is part of the Munich-Centre for ...
General Physics
Sep 30, 2016
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In 1981, the Voyager 2 space probe took intriguing images of Saturn's rings as it passed by the giant planet on its way to Uranus.
Plasma Physics
Aug 16, 2016
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The alert is out and South Floridians are taking heed. With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a warning for visitors and locals to avoid a neighborhood in Miami after more than a dozen individuals contracted ...
General Physics
Aug 3, 2016
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A long-running debate among traffic engineers has been resolved by two A*STAR researchers who have discovered that two seemingly very different models of traffic flow in cities actually have similar underlying mathematical ...
Mathematics
Jun 15, 2016
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Ever since Lemaitre and Hubble's first proposed it in the 1920s, scientists and astronomers have been aware that the universe is expanding. And from these observations, cosmological theories like the Big Bang Theory and the ...
Astronomy
May 27, 2016
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When you see how difficult it is to get even next week's weather forecast right, you can imagine the challenges researchers are faced with when it comes to predicting the weather decades from now.
Condensed Matter
May 6, 2016
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Liquid crystals combine such contradictory features as the chaos of liquid molecules, and the ordering characteristics of crystals. Thanks to an innovative application of antimatter, it has been demonstrated at the Institute ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 21, 2016
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Have a close-up look at DNA; you'll see it wiggles in the oddest way. Put more scientifically, a piece of DNA's movements are often counterintuitive to those of objects in our everyday grasp. Take a rod of rubber, for example. ...
General Physics
Apr 20, 2016
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