Why microwaving liquids is different from other heating techniques, and how this issue can be resolved
Tea drinkers have been saying it for years. Water heated in a microwave just isn't the same.
Tea drinkers have been saying it for years. Water heated in a microwave just isn't the same.
Condensed Matter
Aug 4, 2020
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How did the chemical makeup of our planet's core shape its geologic history and habitability?
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2020
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Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology combine forced convection cooling with thermo-electrochemical energy conversion to create a self-sustaining liquid cooling system. A liquid electrolyte is circulated through a cell ...
General Physics
Nov 29, 2019
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Solar energy is one of the most promising resources to help reduce fossil fuel consumption and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to power a sustainable future. Devices presently in use to convert solar energy into thermal ...
For decades, scientists have theorized that the movement of Earth's tectonic plates is driven largely by negative buoyancy created as they cool. New research, however, shows plate dynamics are driven significantly by the ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2017
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Evidence presented in a recently released study, authored by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service, University of Maryland and University of Kentucky, reveals new findings about how wildfires actually spread and ...
Environment
Jul 21, 2015
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Miranda, a small, icy moon of Uranus, is one of the most visually striking and enigmatic bodies in the solar system. Despite its relatively small size, Miranda appears to have experienced an episode of intense resurfacing ...
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2014
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An international team of physicists is working to ascertain more about the fundamental physical laws that are at work in a process known as convection, which occurs in a boiling pot of water as well as in the turbulent movement ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2012
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A male fiddler crab's oversized claw not only looks cool to the ladies, but new research suggests it literally helps crabs to stay cool.
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What do a wine glass on Earth and an International Space Station experiment have in common? Well, observing the wine glass would be one of few ways to see and understand the experiment being performed in ...
General Physics
Mar 11, 2011
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