Education
Nov 22, 2019
Do lockdown drills do any good?
School lockdown drills and exercises are controversial today, due in large part to some troubling examples making headlines.
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Nanophysics
Nov 22, 2019
A 'simulation booster' for nanoelectronics
Two research groups from ETH Zurich have developed a method that can simulate nanoelectronics devices and their properties realistically, quickly and efficiently. This offers a ray of hope for the industry and data center ...
Nanophysics
Nov 21, 2019
Magnetic wave flows under better control from now on
Even faster processors with even smaller dimensions? Wherever neither electronics nor spintronics can cope with performance or miniaturization, magnonics comes to the rescue. But before that happens, scientists must learn ...
Ecology
Nov 18, 2019
Scientists make vampire bats 'glow' to simulate vaccine spread
University of Michigan scientists and their colleagues used glowing fluorescent gel to test the potential effectiveness of vaccines to control rabies and other diseases in wild bats.
General Physics
Nov 1, 2019
Numerical evidence for the merger of MOTSs inside a binary black hole
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have recently gathered strong numerical evidence for a new phenomenon ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 31, 2019
Fish simulations provide new insights into energy costs of swimming
A new computational analysis suggests that maximizing swimming speeds while minimizing energy costs depends on an optimal balance between a fish's muscle dynamics and the way its size, shape, and swimming motion affect its ...
Materials Science
Oct 28, 2019
Salt helps proteins move on down the road
With a lot of hard work and a dash of salt, Rice University scientists have taken a step toward simplifying drug manufacture.
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2019
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
Antarctica's ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States, and its land boundary is buttressed by massive, floating ice shelves extending hundreds of miles out over the frigid waters of the Southern ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2019
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
Antarctica's ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States, and its land boundary is buttressed by massive, floating ice shelves extending hundreds of miles out over the frigid waters of the Southern ...
Astronomy
Oct 17, 2019
Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling
"Weather" in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. The scientists used sophisticated simulations to show how powerful jets from supermassive ...
