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New Smart Material Bends Under Internal Heat Source
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a new smart material that can bend under the influence of an internal heat source. The material could be used as an aerodynamic flap in cars, in order to stabilize ...
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Artificial Leaves Generate Power by Pumping Water
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Natural leaves constantly lose water through evaporation, as the water in their veins is pumped up to the top of the tree. This process, called transpiration, could also create a mechanical ...
Mayfly-Mimicking Sensor Could be High Tech 'Canary in the Coal Mine'
Jun 21, 2008 |
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Security, health and safety sensors in coal mines, buildings or underground public transit areas where air or water does not readily flow may one day be improved by research on young mayflies at the University ...
MIT solves longstanding volcanic mystery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 08, 2009 |
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For decades, geologists have been puzzled by the mechanisms that give rise to the kind of volcanoes that form the so-called “ring of fire” around the Pacific Ocean. These arc volcanoes, which account for about 10 to 25 percent ...
An Invisible Cloak for Magnetism
Mar 31, 2008 |
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The subject of metamaterials is mad science at its finest – researchers trying to create materials with properties that don’t exist in nature, and that cannot be made with ordinary atoms.
Size-specific cracking shakes out at the nanoscale
Aug 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others. That is the result of new research by LLNL's Michael Manley and colleagues from Los Alamos National ...
Towards a better understanding of hot spot volcanism
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Most of the Earth’s listed active volcanoes are located at the borders between two tectonic plates, where upsurge of magma from the mantle is facilitated. When these magmatic uprisings occur at a subduction zone, where one ...
Earthquake 'memory' could spur aftershocks
Jan 03, 2008 |
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Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves—the sounds radiated from earthquakes—can induce earthquake aftershocks, often ...
Forces out of nothing
Jan 10, 2008 |
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When a machine jams, it’s the fault of the engineer - or of physics. The latter is true at least for the first simple nanomachines which are slowed down by the Casimir effect. This force only works on the ...
Call for ban on gas guzzlers in Europe
Feb 04, 2008 |
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The former head of a major oil company says the European Union should ban the sale of new cars that get less than 35 miles to the gallon.
Remnants of ice age linger in gravity
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May 10, 2007 |
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Researchers have uncovered a large area of low but increasing gravity over North America – the lingering effect of the last ice age when sheets of ice sometimes three kilometres thick covered nearly all of Canada and the ...
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