High-tunnel growing systems, sometimes called hoop houses, have gained popularity for their ability to enhance growth conditions and extend the growing season of horticultural crops. Now, a team led by Penn State researchers ...
Agriculture
Apr 17, 2024
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An international research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated electrical control of a chiral interface state—an exotic quantum phenomenon ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 9, 2024
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In a research collaboration between the group of Professor Hiroshi Yokoyama of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and KOBE STEEL, LTD., flow, and acoustic fields in an expanding pipe with orifice plates were studied ...
General Physics
Apr 2, 2024
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Iron screws and other so-called ferromagnetic materials are made up of atoms with electrons that act like little magnets. Normally, the orientations of the magnets are aligned within one region of the material but are not ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 28, 2024
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A research group led by Prof. Yang Yong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the role of neighboring adsorbate and quantum tunneling in the diffusion of hydrogen on ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 4, 2024
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A research team led by Prof. Dr. Yang Yong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed a remarkable quantum tunneling phenomenon across double potential barriers. They found ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 29, 2024
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Certain plants have flowers that open only in the evening, and depend on nocturnal pollinators such as moths to thrive.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2024
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A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity—and people are largely to blame.
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2024
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Birds have inspired human flight for centuries, but Shabnam Raayai thinks they can also offer lessons in reducing energy consumption.
General Physics
Jan 24, 2024
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Tunneling is one of most fundamental processes in quantum mechanics, where the wave packet could traverse a classically insurmountable energy barrier with a certain probability.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 24, 2024
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