A team of physicists at The University of Edinburgh working with an infection and immunity specialist with the university's Roslin Institute has, via experimentation, validated a theory to explain why paint dries at the same ...
One of the central tenets of quantum mechanics is the wave-particle duality. It tells us that even massive objects behave like both particles and waves. A number of previous experiments have shown this for electrons, neutrons, ...
Quantum Physics
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The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive place.
Astronomy
Jan 30, 2018
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Blood is a remarkable material: it must remain fluid inside blood vessels, yet clot as quickly as possible outside them, to stop bleeding. The chemical cascade that makes this possible is well understood for vertebrate blood. ...
Biochemistry
Mar 27, 2024
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The scientists who received the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry were honored for their development of a technique called cryo-electron microscopy, or cryo-EM. The technology was revolutionary because it enabled scientists to ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 27, 2023
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Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish—even to scientists who study them—are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the largest nervous system of any invertebrate, complex behaviors ...
Evolution
May 4, 2022
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Quantum computers have seen a lot attention recently as they are expected to solve certain problems that are outside the capabilities of normal computers. Primary to these problems is determining the electronic states of ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 17, 2021
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Researchers from Keele University and an international team of astronomers have reported for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a 'blaze of glory' that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.
Astronomy
Oct 8, 2018
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A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research effort led by Pinshane Huang is accelerating imaging techniques to visualize structures of small molecules clearly—a process once thought impossible. Their discovery unleashes ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 12, 2022
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Roughness, the presence of irregularities on a surface, is commonly associated with slower motion and stickiness. This is true at different length scales: at human size (1 meter), it takes longer to walk along a path that ...
Nanophysics
Jan 17, 2020
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