The matter of how metals deform or respond to external stresses has been extensively studied among metallurgists for centuries. When it comes to conventional metals—the crystalline kind with atoms that line up in neat patterns—the ...
Nanophysics
Feb 1, 2024
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What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That's the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 26, 2024
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Physicists in Darmstadt are investigating aging processes in materials. For the first time, they have measured the ticking of an internal clock in glass. When evaluating the data, they discovered a surprising phenomenon.
Condensed Matter
Jan 26, 2024
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There are millions of entrepreneurs in developing countries. In fact, in emerging markets, more than half of all workers—both men and women—are small-firm owners.
Economics & Business
Jan 25, 2024
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New research from a Western University postdoctoral fellow shows the early lunar crust, which makes up the surface of the moon, was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, counter to previously held ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 15, 2024
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Glass is being used in a wider range of high-performance applications, including those for consumers and industry, military and aerospace electronics, coatings and optics. Because of the extreme precision demanded for use ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 15, 2024
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Photonics offers various advantages, including enablement of high-speed and low-loss communication by leveraging light properties in optical data communication, biomedical applications, automotive technology, and artificial ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 10, 2024
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Prof. Wang Junqiang's team from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has observed an abnormal stress memory effect in glass, which can be applied to restrain ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 10, 2024
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Would you be happy to pour your friends a glass of wine from a cask or sip your favorite red from an aluminum can?
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2024
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A scientific explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture, Gerow D. Brill (Cornell University Class of 1888) traveled to the Philippines in 1899 and photographed placid scenes of rice fields, coconut groves, sugar ...
Social Sciences
Dec 21, 2023
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