Automation enhances industry, but it's harmful to the mental health of its human co-workers.
Economics & Business
Jun 29, 2022
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With the advent of semiconductor transistors—invented in 1947 as a replacement for bulky and inefficient vacuum tubes—has come the consistent demand for faster, more energy-efficient technologies. To fill this need, ...
Nanophysics
Jul 1, 2012
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Six billion years ago, two galaxies were colliding, their combined forces hurling a stream of gas hundreds of thousands of light years away. Reported this week by a team including Pitt astronomers, that unusual feature provides ...
Astronomy
Sep 3, 2022
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Materials scientists have long sought to form glass from pure, monoatomic metals. Scott X. Mao and colleagues did it.
Condensed Matter
Aug 13, 2014
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(Phys.org)—Math instructors promoting calculator usage in college classrooms may want to rethink their teaching strategies, says Samuel King, postdoctoral student in the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research & Development ...
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2012
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Burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas releases carbon into the atmosphere as CO2 while the production of methanol and other valuable fuels and chemicals requires a supply of carbon. There is currently no economically ...
Materials Science
Oct 3, 2018
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Pittsburgh research coauthored by team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy reveals that optical fields have the ability to modify electronic properties of a solid.
Condensed Matter
Jun 12, 2020
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Numerous studies have raised critical concerns about the promise of corn ethanol's ability to mitigate climate change and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Some of the studies have suggested that after a full life cycle ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 19, 2017
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One of the impediments to developing miniaturized, "squishy" robots is the need for an internal power source that overcomes the power-to-weight ratio for efficient movement. An international group involving Inha University, ...
Polymers
Nov 10, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a new mechanism that could explain how the Merkel Cell Polyomavirus, responsible for the most aggressive form of skin cancer, can stay dormant for decades after ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 4, 2017
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