Dealing with trash is a challenge wherever people work and live, and space is no exception. Astronauts produce a couple of pounds of trash per crew member per day. To better manage this, NASA is developing a new trash processing ...
Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2018
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If your laptop or cell phone starts to feel warm after playing hours of video games or running too many apps at one time, those devices are actually doing their job.
General Physics
Jul 5, 2018
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory made the first observations of waves of atomic rearrangements, known as phasons, propagating supersonically through a vibrating crystal lattice—a discovery ...
General Physics
May 17, 2018
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Due to its distinctive properties graphene has been held out as a game-changing material for a range of industries and applications. The Graphene Flagship initiative was set up as Europe's biggest ever multi-stakeholder research ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 16, 2018
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As spacecraft become larger, the heat they produce also increases. That means vehicles built for long-term space exploration need more efficient cooling systems.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2017
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Researchers are recommending changes in how to study rapidly changing temperatures in complex systems such as aircraft and power plants, a transformation that could bring advances for applications ranging from fighter jets ...
Engineering
Nov 13, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Calling it an "Ode to Bubbles," MIT researchers have produced bubbling in sync with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: Ode to Joy on a surface resembling a piano keyboard. The performance demonstrates the researchers' ...
How can a pleasant vehicle climate be achieved efficiently? Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) pursued this question in the context of the research project Visio.M funded by the German Federal Ministry ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 13, 2015
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A team of MIT researchers has succeeded in carrying out the first systematic investigation of the factors that control boiling heat transfer from a surface to a liquid. This process is crucial to the efficiency of power plants ...
General Physics
Jul 16, 2013
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During the hot summer months, there's nothing quite like a nice refreshing and cooling dip in a pool, and it would seem that elephants agree. In fact, in some game parks, elephants will rarely stray far from water, and have ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2013
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