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An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor
A few years ago, the researchers decided to put a superconducting metal called strontium ruthenate in their crosshairs. Its structure…
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Tragedy ‘Titan’ in the last 96 hours
Sinking disasters are extremely rare and ships are built to last. Girguis quote Alvin: Commissioned in 1964, the deep-ocean research…
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Sublime Systems co-founders making the ‘electric vehicle of cement’
Leah Ellis and Yet-Ming Chiang Photo courtesy The Engine While Leah Ellis was earning her doctorate at Dalhousie University in Nova…
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New math on wrinkle patterns
A few minutes at a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large sheet of…
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Recycled battery materials can work just as well as new batteries
The cathode is a masterpiece of molecular choreography. How much energy a battery holds and how long it lasts depends…
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What will happen to get electric planes off the ground
A few years Some time ago, while driving on an interstate between Pittsburgh and San Francisco, Venkat Viswanathan began to…
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This company has a way to replace plastic in clothes
Luke Haverhals wants to change the way yoga pants are made. Most performance fabrics used in sportswear, like Spandex, are…
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All that glitters is not Litter
This is the problem Droguet’s team set out to solve using commercially available wood pulp-derived cellulose. First, they had to…
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A new theory for systems against Newton’s third law
The flocks of birds can also be thought of as breaking symmetry: Instead of flying in random directions, they align…
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