If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address ...
General Physics
Nov 22, 2009
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The invisibility cloak is an artifact that can make the wearer transparent, rendering it undetectable to observers outside. Perhaps, one of the most well-known examples is the invisibility cloak possessed by Harry Potter ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 7, 2022
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Often left on the surfaces of a crime scene or on the clothes of an accused criminal, blood backspatter can be used as evidence for forensic scientists to reconstruct what occurred. However, the fluid dynamics at play are ...
Soft Matter
Apr 25, 2023
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have revealed a revolutionary method of pumping fluid at the nanoscale level that has potential use for desalinating water and lab-on-a-chip devices.
Nanophysics
Jun 30, 2014
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Pedestrians are constantly avoiding collisions with oncoming people. Meters in advance they unconsciously change their walkway to pass each other. Physicists at Eindhoven University of Technology in collaboration with American ...
General Physics
Dec 17, 2018
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The continued increase in COVID-19 infection around the world has led scientists from many different fields, including biomedicine, epidemiology, virology, fluid dynamics, aerosol physics, and public policy, to study the ...
General Physics
Oct 26, 2020
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Shrink a human being down to the size of an insect, and you would no longer be able to sip lemonade from a straw. The forces that hold liquid together would simply be too great to overcome at that tiny scale.
Plants & Animals
Dec 10, 2009
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Water is a vital resource, and clean water is a necessity. Texas A&M University researchers have developed a new technique to monitor one of the key processes of purifying water in real time.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 27, 2023
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The team led by Professor Anderson Ho Cheung Shum of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has accomplished a key breakthrough in fluid dynamics, by developing a three-dimensional Marangoni ...
Soft Matter
Feb 20, 2023
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Birds are unwitting masters of fluid dynamics—they manipulate airflow each time they flap their wings, pushing air in one direction and moving themselves in another. Two New York University researchers have taken inspiration ...
General Physics
Feb 3, 2015
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