For more than six months a year, Quebec's boreal forest is covered in a thick blanket of snow. While this is essential for the balance of our ecosystems, for the people living downstream from forested watersheds the snow ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2023
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On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: "near enough null."
Superconductivity
Oct 4, 2023
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One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic is showing up in an unlikely place: the space industry.
Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2021
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The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has made an announcement about the technology to extract high-purity hydrogen from ammonia and generate electric power in conjunction with a fuel cell developed by a team ...
Materials Science
Aug 19, 2020
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Skoltech scientists modeled the behavior of nanobubbles appearing in van der Waals heterostructures and the behavior of substances trapped inside the bubbles. In the future, the new model will help obtain equations of state ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 14, 2020
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If you see people walking down a street and coming to a junction, it's difficult to predict which direction they might take. But, if you see people sitting in separate boats, floating down a stream, and the stream splits ...
General Physics
Mar 31, 2020
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Finding a method for large scale, inexpensive transformation of methane into methanol is like turning lead into gold, according to Tom Cundari, a Regents Professor of chemistry at the University of North Texas.
Materials Science
Mar 11, 2020
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Argon. It's all around us. It's in the air we breathe, incandescent lights we read by and plasma globes many of us played with as children.
General Physics
Mar 3, 2020
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Human cells have a defense mechanism that protects them from microbial attacks, a Canadian-led team of international researchers has discovered.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 28, 2020
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Phosphorus, number 15 on the periodic table, can be highly toxic and flammable and has been used in warfare as an incendiary device, yet it is also essential for life.
Materials Science
Dec 27, 2019
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