An international team of marine biologists has found mesopelagic fish in the earth's oceans constitute 10 to 30 times more biomass than previously thought. UWA Professor Carlos Duarte says mesopelagic fish – fish that live between ...
Food packaging is not dangerous, Australian experts have said Australian experts have reassured Australians that the chemicals in plastic food packaging are not harmful to human health. Dr Ian Musgrave, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty ...
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The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology ...
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Scientists at the University of Auckland, New Zealand have developed a wearable electromagnetic energy harvester that could take vibrational kinetic energy generated by the wearer and convert it into usable electricity for medical devices. ...
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The Earth's magnetic field, or magnetosphere, stretches from the planet's core out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun. For the most part, the magnetosphere acts as a shield to protect ...
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Flocks of birds manage to navigate through difficult environments by individuals having predispositions to favour the left- or right-hand side, according to research published in PLOS Computational Biology this week. Scientists at The ...
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Light can trigger coordinated, wavelike motions of atoms in atom-thin layers of crystal, scientists have shown. The waves, called phonon polaritons, are far shorter than light waves and can be "tuned" to particular frequencies and ...
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When swimming around, bacteria aren't good with the "pool rules."? In small quantities, they'll follow the lanes, but put enough together and they'll begin to create their own flow. In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of ...
The ability to locate and count small numbers of impurity atoms could lead to advances in modern electronics and optical fiber communication networks. In research published today in Physical Review Letters, physicists from Monash ...
Tags: Spectrum Imaging, Measure Atom Concentrations, Atomic Resolution
An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with improved performance and power efficiency. Magnetic materials are currently used to ...
Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
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In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before ...
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Smart Glass - technology globally popular enough. Such glasses have a number of advantages over conventional windows. "Smart" glass does not transmit infrared radiation, it will delay the heat in the room in winter and not let the hot ...
National and international businesses will find out how the University of Sheffield's world-class scientists and state-of-the-art facilities can take their research and development to the next level during a free networking event on ...
A British scientist whose work helped form the basis for flat-screen TVs, computers and mobile phone displays has won AkzoNobel's UK Science Award for 2014. Professor John Goodby, FRS, Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of ...
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