News tagged with ripples
Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is nature's thinnest elastic material and displays exceptional mechanical and electronic properties. Its one-atom thickness, planar geometry, high current-carrying capacity and thermal ...
Scientists explore the physics of bumpy roads
Jul 07, 2009 |
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sand or gravel or snow -- develops ripples that make driving a very shaky experience. A team of physicists from Canada, France and the United Kingdom have recreated this "washboard" phenomenon in the lab with ...
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First images of flowing nano ripples
Mar 21, 2006 |
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Delft University of Technology (Holland) researchers have shed new light on the formation of nanoscale surface features, such as nano ripples. These features are important because they could be useful as templates ...
Super-computer could throw light on 'mysterious' dark energy
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Cosmologists have run a series of huge computer simulations of the Universe that could ultimately help solve the mystery of dark energy.
Direct evidence of role of sleep in memory formation is uncovered
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 15, 2009 |
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A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur.
Has SOHO ended a 30-year quest for solar ripples?
May 03, 2007 |
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The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) may have glimpsed long-sought oscillations on the Sun's surface. The data will reveal details about the very core of our central star and it contains clues as to how ...
The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Applied mathematicians dissected the morphology of the plantain lily (Hosta lancifolia), a characteristic long leaf with a saddle-like arc midsection and closely packed ripples along the edges. The simple ...
Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...
Solar flares set the Sun quaking
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Data from the ESA/NASA spacecraft SOHO shows clearly that powerful starquakes ripple around the Sun in the wake of mighty solar flares that explode above its surface. The observations give solar physicists ...
As waters clear, scientists seek to end a muddy debate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2007 |
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Geologists have long thought muds will only settle when waters are quiet, but new research by Indiana University Bloomington and Massachusetts Institute of Technology geologists shows muds will accumulate ...
Atomic force microscope research could lead to better health care
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Where biology, chemistry and physics intersect, a Kansas State University professor expects to find applications to improve human health.
Ripples In Cosmic Neutrino Background Measured For The First Time
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Jun 15, 2005 |
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Astrophysicists from the Universities of Oxford and Rome have for the first time found evidence of ripples in the Universe’s primordial sea of neutrinos, confirming the predictions of both Big Bang theory and the Standard Model of particle physics. ...
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