When most people think of ceramics, they might envision their favorite mug or a flowerpot. But modern technology is full of advanced ceramics, from silicon solar panels to ceramic superconductors and biomedical implants.
Materials Science
May 25, 2020
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Brownian motion describes the random movement of particles in fluids, however, this revolutionary model only works when a fluid is static, or at equilibrium.
Mathematics
Mar 18, 2020
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You can't see them, but most of the metals around you—coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses—are made up of tiny metal grains. Under a powerful enough microscope, you can see interlocking ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 24, 2020
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An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a surprising bit of space history, based on new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Astronomy
Jan 28, 2020
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Stars have life cycles. They're born when bits of dust and gas floating through space find each other and collapse in on each other and heat up. They burn for millions to billions of years, and then they die. When they die, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2020
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Successful trials of titanium-copper alloys for 3-D printing could kickstart a new range of high-performance alloys for medical device, defence and aerospace applications.
Materials Science
Dec 4, 2019
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A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and China has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.
Archaeology
Nov 11, 2019
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What appears to be an impossibly complicated maze is actually quite simple. Two complicated mazes, intertwined but not touching, tell a different story.
Materials Science
Oct 28, 2019
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New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings are the result of the ongoing deep dive into data from NASA's Cassini mission.
Astronomy
Oct 2, 2019
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A grain of dust forged in the death throes of a long-gone star was discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Arizona.
Astronomy
Apr 29, 2019
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