The same gravitational force responsible for creating tides on Earth could be causing deep quakes on the moon, a new study confirms.
Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2017
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You can't hear most of them, but the world is running on different kinds of mechanical oscillations. For example, inside the average electronic wristwatch is a sealed canister containing a 3 mm long quartz crystal resonator. ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 31, 2017
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On an otherwise normal day in the lab, Eva Andrei didn't expect to make a major discovery. Andrei, a physics professor at Rutgers University, was using graphite – the material in pencils – to calibrate a scanning tunneling ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 31, 2017
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The technologies driving artificial intelligence are expanding exponentially, leading many technology experts and futurists to predict machines will soon be doing many of the jobs that humans do today. Some even predict humans ...
Robotics
Aug 31, 2017
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The way that public transit riders reach their nearest stop to home could make an important difference in the jobs available to them.
Social Sciences
Aug 31, 2017
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It's so hard to speak to a real person on the phone these days. Almost any time you need to call your bank, doctor or any other service, you'll probably be greeted by an automated service seemingly designed to prevent you ...
Other
Aug 31, 2017
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Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is in a downward spiral, with summer minimum extents about 40 percent smaller than in the 1980s. But predicting how the sea ice is going to behave in a particular year is tricky: There are still ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2017
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NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite's Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument captured this image of several major fires in Washington state on August 29, 2017. The three highlighted fires are the Diamond ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2017
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A team of Carnegie high-pressure physicists have created a form of carbon that's hard as diamond, but amorphous, meaning it lacks the large-scale structural repetition of a diamond's crystalline structure. Their findings ...
Materials Science
Aug 31, 2017
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A butterfly's wings and a peacock's feathers use nanoscale architecture to bend light and produce brilliant colors without pigments or dyes, and scientists have been trying to emulate nature's design.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 31, 2017
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