Tailings, the waste left after extracting precious and critical minerals, often contain harmful chemicals and heavy metals that can pollute soil, water, and even crops. There are over 1,800 tailings storage facilities around ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2023
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Some of the most massive and distant black holes in the universe emit an enormous amount of extraordinarily energetic radiation called gamma rays. This type of radiation occurs, for example, when mass is converted into energy ...
Astronomy
Jul 2, 2020
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A team of 17 materials science and engineering researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign and Erciyes University in Turkey have authored "High-Resolution Patterns of Quantum Dots are Formed by Electrohydrodynamic ...
A new way to create high-energy ions could speed up their applications in treating cancer and probing the fundamental nature of matter.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 13, 2023
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Only a few months after its launch, ESA's Solar Orbiter has captured images of the sun from a previously unattainable distance. Among other things, these images reveal structures in the sun's atmosphere that could possibly ...
Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2020
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Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers.
Nanophysics
Dec 22, 2011
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Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has observed a supernova remnant known as 1E 0102.2–7219. Results of the ...
(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers at Boston University (BU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a number of other institutions recently observed that certain materials undergo an insulator-to-metal transition ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 25, 2012
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Magnetic materials have been a mainstay in computing technology due to their ability to permanently store information in their magnetic state. Current technologies are based on ferromagnets, whose states can be flipped readily ...
General Physics
Jun 23, 2020
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Glass fibres can do more than transport data. A special type of glass fibre can also be used as a high-precision multi-purpose sensor, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 6, 2015
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