Manganese ferrite nanoparticles could lead to a substantial surge in the availability of drinking water globally when used to modify the filtering sheets currently used in water treatment plants, according to scientists.
Nanomaterials
Aug 26, 2024
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The ratchet mechanism is a fascinating energy-conversion system that converts disorderly or random motion into orderly, directed movement through a process known as spontaneous rectification. It is a critical component of ...
General Physics
Aug 20, 2024
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As the world faces the challenges of mitigating climate change and providing resources for a growing population, there is increasing focus on developing circular economies for sustainable production. But to evaluate strategies ...
Environment
Aug 19, 2024
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Putting 50 billion transistors into a microchip the size of a fingernail is a feat that requires manufacturing methods of nanometer level precision—layering of thin films, then etching, depositing, or using photolithography ...
Nanophysics
Jul 30, 2024
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"Core on deck!" For two months, whenever I heard that cry, I would run up to the deck of the JOIDES Resolution to watch the crew pull up a 30-foot (10-meter) cylindrical tube filled with layered, multicolored rock and sediment ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2024
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What do poplar trees, sharks and biofuels have in common? While it might sound a bit like a riddle, a team led by Michigan State University biochemists has reported exciting findings concerning all three in the quest for ...
Biotechnology
Jul 9, 2024
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Northwestern investigators have demonstrated how manipulating DNA chemistry can alter its structure and flexibility and enable the realization of new materials useful in medicine and the life sciences, according to a study ...
Biochemistry
Jun 21, 2024
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In recent weeks, Southern Cryonics—the southern hemisphere's only cryopreservation facility, located in rural New South Wales—announced it had successfully cryopreserved its first patient.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2024
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Natural materials like bone, bird feathers and wood have an intelligent approach to physical stress distribution, despite their irregular architectures. However, the relationship between stress modulation and their structures ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 21, 2024
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A molecular biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found a new "rule of biology."
Evolution
May 17, 2024
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