A first-of-its-kind study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers reveals why liquid droplets have the ability to erode hard surfaces. The discovery could help engineers design better, more erosion-resistant ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 31, 2022
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New research published in Nature Physics details the relationship between a disordered material's individual particle arrangement and how it reacts to external stressors. The study also found that these materials have "memory" ...
Soft Matter
Mar 18, 2022
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Air pollution increases in South East Asia, combined with pollution cuts in Europe, may have had an important influence on European and Asian weather patterns in recent decades, new research has found.
Earth Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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The calendar said December but the warm moist air screamed of springtime. Add an eastbound storm front guided by a La Nina weather pattern into that mismatch and it spawned tornadoes that killed dozens over five U.S. states.
Environment
Dec 12, 2021
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered a process in the swirling masses of plasma surrounding black holes and neutron stars that can cause previously ...
Astronomy
Dec 8, 2021
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As natural weather disasters, tropical cyclones possess enormous destructiveness related to their intensity (maximum speed of tangential winds in the lower troposphere within 50 km of the tropical cyclone center). The long-term ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2021
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For the first time, researchers have been able capture images providing unprecedented details of how particles behave in a liquid suspension when the phenomenon known as shear thickening takes place. The work allows us to ...
General Physics
Oct 7, 2021
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Much like the oceans, the atmosphere on Earth oscillates on a global scale. The so-called atmosphere tides depend on the Sun's heat and gravity, as well as the pull of the Moon and Earth's own rotation. In the troposphere, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2021
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Researchers recently discovered a better way to make a new class of soft materials—reducing a process that used to take five months down to three minutes.
Polymers
Aug 4, 2021
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Expected effects of climate change on hailstorms vary markedly by region, says a new international review involving UNSW.
Environment
Mar 29, 2021
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