When building a nest, previous experience raising chicks will influence the choices birds make, according to a new study by University of Alberta scientists.
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2021
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A research team including the geobiologist Dr. Helge Missbach from the University of Cologne has detected organic molecules and gases trapped in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks. A widely accepted hypothesis says that the earliest ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2021
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A highly porous metal organic framework, assembled from molecular building blocks designed to lock together in a specific orientation, has been developed by researchers at KAUST.
Materials Science
Feb 18, 2021
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In the summer of 2014 a strange building began to take shape just outside MoMA PS1, a contemporary art centre in New York City. It looked like someone had started building an igloo and then got carried away, so that the ice-white ...
Materials Science
Jan 15, 2021
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Bogs, mires, fens and marshes—just their names seem to conjure myth and mystery. Though today, our interest in these waterlogged landscapes tends to be more prosaic. Because of a lack of oxygen, they can build up vast quantities ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2021
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Wafer-thin membranes tailored to separate specific molecules from liquids could improve the efficiency of oil refining and pharmaceutical manufacture.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 7, 2020
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Innovation in advanced materials offers the disruptive potential to transform the way we build our future cities—and make them greener and smarter.
Nanomaterials
Dec 1, 2020
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Blending is a powerful strategy for improving the performance of electronics, coatings, separation membranes, and other functional materials. For example, high-efficiency solar cells and light-emitting diodes have been produced ...
Polymers
Nov 24, 2020
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have realized high-throughput production of thin, ordered through-hole membranes of titanium dioxide. Titania layers were grown using anodization on mask-etched titanium before ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 23, 2020
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The service life of tunnels today is designed to last at least for one hundred years—in the case of the Brenner basis tunnel it is even 200 years. The problem with this: "The service life is currently calculated on the ...
Materials Science
Nov 17, 2020
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