When worlds collide: Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system
While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions.
While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions.
Astronomy
Mar 30, 2022
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Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain's depths after a swarm of small earthquakes.
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, offering greater energy density and range than contemporary lithium-ion batteries, remain out of reach, not least due to challenges coming from the composition of the battery's ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 25, 2022
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Theoretical physicists routinely introduce fictitious particles and fields in their calculations, in view of completing a theory or simply to make it more elegant. A striking example concerns the magnetic monopole imagined ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 22, 2022
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Due to the current energy problems, which encompass high electricity bills, regional tensions among oil and gas producers or the impact of climate change, among others, a rational management of energy consumption is becoming ...
General Physics
Dec 10, 2021
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The United States is by far the biggest contributor to global plastic waste in the world, according to a new report submitted to the federal government Wednesday that called for a national strategy to tackle the growing crisis.
Environment
Dec 2, 2021
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A research group of Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering of Toyohashi University of Technology, consisting of Hirotada Gamo, doctoral course student; Atsushi Nagai, project associate professor; ...
Materials Science
Nov 15, 2021
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Recent advances on materials in development since the 1980s at Osaka Prefecture University (OPU) bring all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) a step closer towards reality.
Materials Science
Oct 28, 2021
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Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems Interdisciplinary Research Group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at the MIT, ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 26, 2021
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Contact electrification can arise when physical contact occurs between two materials. In a new report now published on Science Advances, Ding Li, and a team of scientists in nanoscience, nanoenergy and materials science in ...