Researchers at Florida State University's Future Fuels Institute have developed a highly sophisticated software program that can analyze the quality of petroleum in mere minutes, allowing petroleum companies and governments ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2015
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Combining state-of-the-art realistic atomistic modelling and experiments, a new paper describes how thermal conductivity of an ultrathin silicon membrane is controlled to a large extent by the structure and the chemical composition ...
Nanophysics
Apr 22, 2015
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A new analysis of the chemical make-up of meteorites has helped scientists work out when the Earth formed its layers.
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2015
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Precious works of art in need of preservation or authentication could in future be studied using a new laser technique, developed by a collaboration of UK and Italian scientists, that can analyse layers of paint without causing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 30, 2015
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Borrowing a trick from nature, engineers from the University of California at Berkeley have created an incredibly thin, chameleon-like material that can be made to change color—on demand—by simply applying a minute amount ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 12, 2015
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A research team led by Shuro Takano at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Taku Nakajima at Nagoya University observed the spiral galaxy M77, also known as NGC1068, with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...
Astronomy
Feb 26, 2015
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Whoa, here's something to think about. Maybe the Universe isn't expanding at all. Maybe everything is actually just shrinking, so it looks like it's expanding. Turns out, scientists have thought of this.
Astronomy
Feb 3, 2015
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Breaking ocean waves beget a wake of bubbles. Reaching the sea surface, they burst into a spray of salt and carbon-rich material produced from microscopic sea critters. The far-flung particles can loft high enough to affect ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2015
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NIST's Precision Imaging Facility (PIF) in Boulder, Colo., provides a variety of advanced tools for precisely measuring the structure and chemical composition of materials at sub-nanometer scales. These images were prepared ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 2, 2014
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A UC Santa Barbara geochemist studying Samoan volcanoes has found evidence of the planet's early formation still trapped inside the Earth. Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can ancient primordial signatures ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2014
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