Water, a membrane with a tiny hole and a small metal plate: that's all that is required to generate a voltage of 20,000 volts. Researchers from the University of Twente MESA+ research institute have developed a completely ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 11, 2014
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Simply wearing a mask may not be enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19 without social distancing.
Soft Matter
Dec 22, 2020
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water can be superheated and remain liquid above the boiling point if there is no nucleating surface (such as a surface defect or a speck of dust), it can also become supercooled and remain liquid ...
Earlier this year, scientists used zebra finches to pinpoint the gene that enables birds to produce and display the colour red.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature and pressure ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 11, 2011
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Scientists have solved the riddle behind one of the most recognisable, and annoying, household sounds: the dripping tap. And crucially, they have also identified a simple solution to stop it, which most of us already have ...
General Physics
Jun 22, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- AquaLux 3D, a new projection technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, can target light onto and between individual water droplets, enabling text, video and other moving or ...
Engineering
Jul 6, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers from Harvard University have designed and demonstrated ice-free nanostructured materials that literally repel water droplets before they even have the chance to freeze.
Nanophysics
Nov 13, 2010
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For the past eight years, two French researchers have been bouncing droplets around a vibrating oil bath and observing their unique behaviour. What sounds like a high-school experiment has in fact provided the first ever ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 1, 2013
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Six months ago, Singaporean retiree Soon Eng Sam, 70, suffered a stroke that paralysed the left side of his body.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 1, 2012
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