Inspired by bone, new adaptive material strengthens from vibration
Bone is not just a fixed material—it's a dynamic set of structures that can adapt their mass and strength based on the loads they must support.
Bone is not just a fixed material—it's a dynamic set of structures that can adapt their mass and strength based on the loads they must support.
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2021
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Wormholes play a key role in many science fiction films—often as a shortcut between two distant points in space. In physics, however, these tunnels in spacetime have remained purely hypothetical. An international team led ...
General Physics
Mar 9, 2021
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As temperatures rise due to global warming, the need to protect plants from stressful conditions has increased, as stress can cause a loss in yield and cause further impact economically. A consortium led by the University ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2021
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If you have ever gotten up on a winter morning and thrown yourself into the arduous task of scraping frost from a windshield, a Virginia Tech lab is engaging science [IS1] that could make your life much easier. In research ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 24, 2021
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Materials having excess electrons are typically conductors. However, moiré patterns—interference patterns that typically arise when one object with a repetitive pattern is placed over another with a similar pattern—can ...
General Physics
Feb 15, 2021
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In a paper published today in the journal Science, the CLOUD collaboration at CERN shows that aerosol particles made of iodic acid can form extremely rapidly in the marine boundary layer—the portion of the atmosphere that ...
Materials Science
Feb 8, 2021
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Thermoelectric materials, which can generate an electric voltage in the presence of a temperature difference, are currently an area of intense research; thermoelectric energy harvesting technology is among our best shots ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 28, 2021
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Mass spectrometers (MS) have become essential tools in chemistry and biology laboratories. The ability to quickly identify the chemical components in a sample allows them to take part in a diverse array of experiments, including ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 19, 2021
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Maxwell equations govern the evolution of electromagnetic fields with light being a particular solution of these equations in spaces devoid of electric charge. A new study published in EPJ C by Alexi Morozov and Nikita Tselousov, ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 18, 2021
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Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered how to locally add electrical charge to an atomically thin graphene device by layering flakes of another thin material, alpha-RuCl3, on top of it.
Nanomaterials
Jan 14, 2021
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