An innovative X-ray method enables new high-pressure investigations of samples under deep mantle conditions. The technique, which was developed by a team led by Georg Spiekermann from DESY, the German Research Centre for ...
General Physics
Feb 11, 2019
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Images taken using an atomic force microscope have allowed researchers to observe, for the first time, the flexible and dynamic changes that occur on the surfaces of 'porous coordination polymer' crystals when guest molecules ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 4, 2018
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Although land animals can move in many different ways, most terrestrial creatures use legs to crawl, scuttle, walk and run about. Leg-propelled animals such as mammals, insects, spiders or centipedes, feature a wealth of ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2018
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The surge in demand for Wi-Fi networks has created a need to better coordinate the immense traffic. An EU initiative introduced an architecture to reduce interference and boost performance in very congested environments.
Telecom
Aug 23, 2018
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The problem of the relationship between the structure of materials and their physical properties is one of the global problems of the present day. For many years, researchers of the Lobachevsky University's Faculty of Physics ...
Materials Science
Mar 29, 2018
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A new paper published in Behavioral Ecology finds that songbirds may coordinate both vocally and visually to enhance their singing partners' responses.
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2017
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When you walk into the laboratory that houses NIST's newest coordinate measuring machine (CMM), you might be puzzled at first about how engineers got it into the room.
General Physics
Feb 23, 2017
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Precision time signals sent through the Global Positioning System (GPS) synchronize cellphone calls, time-stamp financial transactions, and support safe travel by aircraft, ship, train and car.
Telecom
Sep 8, 2016
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On December 31, 2016, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the extra second will ...
Space Exploration
Jul 6, 2016
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A research group led by Professor Mochida Tomoyuki (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) and PhD student Funasako Yusuke (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi) has developed a metal-containing compound which transforms ...
Materials Science
May 27, 2016
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