Earth's days getting longer: study (Update)
Earth's days are getting longer but you're not likely to notice any time soon—it would take about 3.3 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Earth's days are getting longer but you're not likely to notice any time soon—it would take about 3.3 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2016
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University of Utah mathematician Graeme Milton presents a new tool for understanding how energy waves move through complex materials, opening up possibilities to design materials that absorb or bend energy as desired. His ...
Mathematics
Nov 21, 2016
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Coastal defences could be designed to better withstand powerful storms triggered by climate change, a study of wave dynamics suggests.
General Physics
Oct 14, 2016
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An international team of researchers has invented a method to control the formation of defects called "shear bands" in metals manufacturing processes and discovered microscopic details of how the defects are created.
Condensed Matter
Sep 21, 2016
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Oxford University researchers say that trees which grew during intense radiation bursts in the past have 'time-markers' in their tree-rings that could help archaeologists date events from thousands of years ago.
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2016
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A new study provides more evidence that identical sections of DNA can match up with each other without the help of other molecules.
Biotechnology
Jul 20, 2016
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A new generation of indestructible bridges could be possible, thanks to research from the University of Warwick.
Mathematics
Jul 13, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A small team of mathematicians with Oxford University and an engineer with Tufts University has together proposed a model to explain the dynamics of the chameleon tongue. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
New research from Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics is broadening perspectives on time and space.
Quantum Physics
Jan 28, 2016
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Since the dawn of time, humans have endeavoured to unravel the laws governing the physical world around us. Over centuries we have tried to discover a Theory of Everything.
General Physics
Jan 18, 2016
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