To gain a deeper understanding of a wide range of geological processes, such as plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanic diking, we need to have a knowledge of both past and present in situ stress field. In particular, information ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2023
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Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task.
Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2023
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Earth's crust contains pockets of water, metal-rich brines, gas and molten rock, especially near volcanoes and other sites of geothermal activity. Knowing where these fluids are and their precise composition can help scientists ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2023
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They kill with a molecular sting or oxidative shock and don't know the meaning of fatigue. The latest biocidal nanocomposites, designed and synthesized by scientists at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 9, 2023
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Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its tail and then launched ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2023
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have taken technology aimed at helping humans suffering from lymphedema—in which the accumulation of excess lymph fluid causes swollen limbs—and developed a medical device ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2023
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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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Traditional viscometers rely on capillary flow, and falling balls are simple and effective means for measuring fluid viscosity over a large range. However, their low measurement throughput and lack of real-time monitoring ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 21, 2023
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A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a wearable sensing patch and realized rapid quantitative analysis of urea.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 21, 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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