Aug. 5, 2019 -- Chemists have produced an array of fluorescent surfactants for imaging, biomedical and manufacturing ...
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July 31, 2019 -- Insights into how minute, yet powerful, bubbles form and collapse on underwater surfaces could help make industrial structures such as ship propellers more hardwearing, research ...
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July 22, 2019 -- Researchers have developed a laser-based system that can be used for airborne measurement of important atmospheric gases with unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The ability to collect this data ...
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July 22, 2019 -- A research team has recently devised a novel mechanism to transport droplets at record-high velocity and distance without extra energy input, and droplets can be moved upward along a vertical ...
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July 19, 2019 -- A predictive model combining information about plant physiology, real-time soil conditions and weather forecasts can help make more informed decisions about when and how much to irrigate. This could ...
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July 18, 2019 -- Scientists have made a new material that is both liquid and magnetic, opening the door to a new area of science in magnetic soft matter. The new material could lead to a revolutionary class of ...
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July 17, 2019 -- Carbon materials such as nanotubes, graphene, activated carbon and graphite are in high demand. Researchers set out to create more efficient forms of activated carbon by utilizing the superconducting ...
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July 16, 2019 -- A control system for deformable robot-fingertips was developed for grasping and releasing objects. Previously developed robot fingertips with high friction texture can stably grasp a paper box, a ...
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July 15, 2019 -- There's no known way to prove a three-dimensional 'quantum spin liquid' exists, so physicists did the next best thing: They showed their crystals of cerium zirconium pyrochlore had the ...
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July 15, 2019 -- New research suggests that regions of the Martian surface could be made habitable with a material -- silica aerogel -- that mimics Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect. Through modeling and ...
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July 15, 2019 -- Researchers find that the absorption of water vapor within industrial heat recycling devices is directly tied to a physical process known as the thermodiffusion ...
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July 10, 2019 -- This research is a fundamental discovery of how to engineer proteins onto non-biological surfaces. Artificial proteins engineered from scratch have been assembled into nanorod arrays, designer ...
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July 10, 2019 -- Mussels are notorious maritime stowaways known for damaging the hulls of boats, but these same adhesive properties have widespread engineering applications, scientists say. They suggest that the ...
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July 10, 2019 -- Researchers have developed an ultra-sensitive light-detecting system that could enable astronomers to view galaxies, stars and planetary systems in superb ...
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July 10, 2019 -- Scientists have discovered a novel mechanism which they refer to as microbubble implosion (MBI) in 2018. In this study, the group confirmed that during MBI, an ultrahigh electrostatic field close to ...
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July 9, 2019 -- Researchers have developed a new system for evaporating the water from algae biomass with reusable nanoporous graphene, which can lead to cheaper, more environmentally friendly biofuels and fine ...
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July 8, 2019 -- Ping! The popular 1990 film, The Hunt for Red October, helped introduce sonar technology on submarines to pop culture. Now, nearly 30 years later, a team of scientists is using this same sonar ...
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July 2, 2019 -- Plant leaves have a natural superpower -- they're designed with water repelling characteristics. Called a superhydrophobic surface, this trait allows leaves to cleanse themselves from dust ...
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July 2, 2019 -- For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from water systems that turn on and off at certain times. A new article proposes a model to explain why and how these systems come ...
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July 2, 2019 -- Researchers developed a mathematical model that allows for anticipating the failure of dikes that hold in overflowing river ...
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