Spills of crude oil that devastate huge areas of the oceanic environment could be cleaned up by naturally occurring microorganisms.
Environment
Feb 7, 2018
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Two teams of researchers working independently of one another have discovered some remarkable features of liquid water—it can be chilled to −42.55°C and it appears to have what is described as a singularity. The first ...
To prevent water and ice from making our shoes soggy, frosting our car windows and weighing down power lines with icicles, scientists have been exploring new coatings that can repel water. Now one team has developed a way ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 13, 2017
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Cooking in a frying pan with oil can quickly become dangerous if "explosive" hot oil droplets jump out of the pan, leading to painful burns. But these droplets may be doing something even more damaging: contributing to indoor ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 20, 2017
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Researchers have published a paper that demonstrations the first laboratory experiment to use liquid marbles to create collision-based computation in research.
Condensed Matter
Nov 15, 2017
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Something almost magical happens when you put a tray full of sloshing, liquid water into a freezer and it comes out later as a rigid, solid crystal of ice. Chemists at the University of Utah have pulled back the curtain a ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 8, 2017
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The reluctance of oil and water to mix together and stay that way is so well-known that it has become a cliché for describing any two things that do not go together well. Now, a new finding from researchers at MIT might ...
Nanophysics
Nov 8, 2017
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Even in ancient Greece, philosopher Aristotle tried to sum up all the ways that water can behave. Now, about 2,400 years later, two Imperial College London scientists, using laser-flash photography of microscopic droplet-particle ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 17, 2017
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Despite their name, rare earth elements actually aren't that rare. Abundant in mines around the world, rare earths are used in many high-tech products, including visual displays, batteries, super conductors, and computer ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 13, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Côte d'Azur in France has found that drops ejected by an oscillating surface can at times travel faster than the surface that ejected them. In their paper published ...
