Golden touch makes low-temperature graphene production a reality
(PhysOrg.com) -- A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.
(PhysOrg.com) -- A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.
Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2011
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Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
Astronomy
Feb 26, 2020
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A rare roofed theater, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge major assumptions about the decline of Roman Italy.
Archaeology
Dec 11, 2023
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Fly eyes have the fastest visual responses in the animal kingdom, but how they achieve this has long been an enigma. A new study shows that their rapid vision may be a result of their photoreceptors - specialised cells found ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2012
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The relative underperformance of disadvantaged students at school has little do with them lacking the "character," attitude, or mindset of their wealthier peers, despite widespread claims to the contrary, new research indicates.
Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2023
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In Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst. A new study published online today (06 August) in the journal Current Biology demonstrates ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2009
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Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling is at the heart of the peculiar wave nature of particles, this ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 5, 2012
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Physicists have shown that simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve using standard physics.
General Physics
Oct 12, 2023
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India's sophisticated laws and progressive policies fail with startling regularity. A new study locates a possible reason as to why in the convoluted bureaucratic system of the Indian state and its obsession with paper.
Economics & Business
Jul 21, 2016
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Bias in the collection of data on which artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs depend can limit the usefulness of this rapidly growing tool for climate scientists predicting future scenarios and guiding global action, ...
Environment
Aug 17, 2023
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