The study of liquid droplets and their behavior upon impingement is of major importance in many fields, including agriculture, engineering, and medicine. Droplet behavior prediction has use in spray painting and pesticide ...
General Physics
Aug 17, 2022
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At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers fresh insight into something a little closer to home: ...
General Physics
Aug 16, 2022
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A new study has put a remarkable and unexpected chemical genesis on more solid footing.
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2022
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Graphene scientists from The University of Manchester have created a novel "nano-petri dish" using two-dimensional (2D) materials to create a new method of observing how atoms move in liquid.
Nanophysics
Jul 27, 2022
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Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease are caused by folding errors (misfolding) in proteins or peptides, i.e. by changes in their spatial structure. This is the result of minute deviations ...
Biochemistry
Jul 20, 2022
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With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon after the first observations are revealed ...
Astronomy
May 27, 2022
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New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to take a detailed image of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth's core, some three thousand kilometers beneath the surface.
Earth Sciences
May 19, 2022
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Wettability of a material is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, and it is proportional to hydrophilicity and inversely proportional to hydrophobicity. It is one of the most important properties ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 26, 2022
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A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids maintain their contact with solid surfaces—also known as wettability—from an intermolecular force perspective.
Nanophysics
Apr 8, 2022
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Ground-breaking research into the hot structures deep in the Earth suggest they could be much more fluid than once supposed.
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2022
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