How do you prolong the useful life of lubricants?
Wind turbines towering hundreds of feet over many landscapes herald a future of endless, clean energy.
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Foam could offer greener option for petroleum drillers
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, provides critical energy for society, but also uses large amounts of fresh water while producing corresponding amounts of wastewater. Water-based foams, which use about 90 percent less water ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2018
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Size matters—if you are a bubble of volcanic gas
The chemical composition of gases emitted from volcanoes—which are used to monitor changes in volcanic activity—can change depending on the size of gas bubbles rising to the surface, and relate to the way in which they ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2018
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Innovation and speculation drive stock market bubble activity, according to new study
A group of data scientists conducted an in-depth analysis of major innovations and stock market bubbles from 1825 through 2000 and came away with novel takeaways of their own as they found some very distinctive patterns in ...
Economics & Business
Aug 1, 2018
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Making solar hydrogen generation more efficient in microgravity
An international team of researchers has found a way to make solar hydrogen generation more efficient in microgravity environments. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes what they ...
Hot nanoparticles produce giant and explosive bubbles
When gold nano particles in water are illuminated by a laser, they get very hot: well above the boiling point of water. The formation of vapour bubbles caused by this, is well-known. New experiments, however, using a very ...
Nanophysics
Jul 12, 2018
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Bitcoin hits 4-month low after currency exchange theft
The price of bitcoin has fallen to a four-month low of $6,370, days after South Korean virtual currency exchange Coinrail said hackers had stolen over $37 million, or almost a third of the virtual currency it had stored.
Internet
Jun 13, 2018
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Wickless heat pipes: New dynamics exposed in a near-weightless environment
Heat pipes are devices to keep critical equipment from overheating. They transfer heat from one point to another through an evaporation-condensation process and are used in everything from cell phones and laptops to air conditioners ...
General Physics
Apr 27, 2018
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Computer simulation of boiling phenomena, bubble formation and two-phase bubbly flow inside nuclear reactors
The intrinsic beauty of bubbles—those thin watery spheres filled with air or other gases—has long captured the imagination of children and adults alike. But bubbles are also a linchpin of nuclear engineering, helping ...
General Physics
Apr 5, 2018
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Scientists invent cheaper and greener wastewater treatment
A new energy-efficient process developed at Murdoch University is set to revolutionise wastewater treatment by significantly reducing the industry's electricity consumption.
Environment
Apr 2, 2018
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