Thermoelectric materials, which can generate electricity from waste heat or be used as solid-state refrigerators, could play an important role in a global sustainable energy solution. Such a development involves identifying ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 9, 2013
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A new study by a research team at The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University has found that an ion considered an essential part of chemistry calculations does not exist.
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2018
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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering black female aerospace ...
Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2020
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Research in which UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry collaborated has resolved the tautomeric equilibrium of a model system of great biological interest. The work was made possible using equipment designed to characterise ...
Materials Science
Jan 23, 2017
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The periodic system contains 118 chemical elements. However, only a few of them, such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and silicon, are of major importance in our daily lives. But things become really exciting from a ...
Materials Science
Aug 6, 2020
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Scientists from Japan have employed theoretical calculations to model the optical radiation force distribution induced by an arbitral light pattern including an interference pattern. Based on the simulations, they were able ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 28, 2022
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Quantum information could be behind the next technological revolution. By analogy with the bit in classical computing, the qubit is the basic element of quantum computing. However, demonstrating the existence of this information ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 3, 2021
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A new method designs nanomaterials with less than 10-nanometer precision. It could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient electronics.
Nanomaterials
Sep 13, 2021
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ESA's GOCE satellite has been orbiting the Earth for more than a year and surveying its gravitational field more accurately than any instrument previously. The goal of the researchers - including German scientists at the ...
Earth Sciences
May 7, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Industrial and systems engineering professor Jeff Linderoth is working on a way to help computers make yes/no decisions faster by enhancing the standard algorithm computers use to solve a class of problems ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2011
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