Melting glasses from unmeltable compounds
Glasses are an indispensable part of everyday life. One of the most important reasons for this is that glass objects can be manufactured almost universally and inexpensively in a wide variety of shapes and sizes using their corresponding melts. Proce.....»»
Third pole darkening affects local and remote climates, finds study
Owing to global warming effects, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region has experienced drastic changes in its land surface, characterized by melting glaciers, loss of snow cover, and vegetation greening. These, in turn, have led to a darkening of the land.....»»
The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren't sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt. Modeling t.....»»
Exploring bonds and electronic structure in plutonium hybrid materials
Understanding the arrangement of electrons in compounds containing actinide elements, such as uranium and plutonium, can help advance the design of next-generation nuclear materials. These elements are challenging to study due to their complex chemis.....»»
"Glassiness" and "blurriness" might explain the behavior of high-entropy superconductors
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered clues to understanding the behavior of high-entropy metal telluride superconductors. They found that features typical of glasses, solids with an amorphous structure, and "blurry" electroni.....»»
The journey of a carbon atom: From space, NASA"s PACE mission detects carbon in the sky, land and sea
Whether in plants or animals, greenhouse gases or smoke, carbon atoms exist in various compounds as they move through a multitude of pathways within Earth's system. That's why NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission—schedule.....»»
New report: How the pandemic compounds education pipeline challenges
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) has released new analysis based on updated data that suggests potentially greater long-term public school enrollment challenges, as well as recommendations for educational leaders and pol.....»»
The Leia Lume Pad 2 is a $1,100, glasses-free 3D Android tablet
A light field display and face tracking bring the 3D display to life, supposedly. The Leia (or ZTE) 3D tablet. [credit: Z.....»»
Researchers develop portable color-changing food spoilage sensor
When foods like fish, meat, and cheese decompose, they release a variety of low molecular weight organic nitrogen compounds known as biogenic amines (BAs). While the body uses BAs in small amounts in processes like hormone synthesis, ingesting large.....»»
A new approach to assessing policies in the climate crisis
Abruptly melting ice sheets, the collapse of coral reefs and rainforests: nature is complex—and climate policy must consider physical "tipping points" as well as uncertainties and measurement problems. How can the fight against the greenhouse effec.....»»
Identifying organic compounds with visible light
Researchers from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and the University of Notre Dame, working with machine learning, have devised a method to identify organic compounds based on the refractive index at a single optical wavelength. The technique cou.....»»
Scientists detect dimer product ROOR generated by self-reaction of ethyl peroxy radicals
Organic peroxy radicals (RO2) are important intermediates in the degradation of atmospheric volatile organic compounds. It not only participates in the cycling of atmospheric radicals and influences oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere, but also cont.....»»
Star Citizen still hasn’t launched, but it’s facing server failures
RSI apologizes for "super rough start" to "persistent universe" alpha update. A trailer for the server-melting Alpha 3.18 "Lasting Legacies" update to Star Citizen. We're now firmly ensconced in the second decade of Star Citizen's c.....»»
Physicists track sequential "melting" of upsilons
Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have published their first data showing how three distinct variations of particles called upsilons sequentially "melt," or di.....»»
Intel may have found the solution to Nvidia’s melting GPUs
The 12VHPWR connector built up a pretty bad reputation in Nvidia's GPUs, but Intel may have found a solution to the problems it can cause......»»
Tim Cook may be launching Apple VR headset earlier than engineers want
The expected 2023 launch of the Apple VR headset was an executive decision against the advice of the company's industrial design team, a report claims, with the latter preferring to wait until it could release AR glasses.A render of a potential Apple.....»»
Researchers identify two compounds capable of inhibiting growth of brain tumor cells
Glioblastoma is a malignant tumor of the central nervous system (brain or spinal cord) and one of the deadliest types of cancer. Few drugs have proved effective at combating this uncontrolled growth of glial cells, which anyway constitute a large pro.....»»
Defect engineering for advanced electrocatalytic conversion of nitrogen-containing molecules
The nitrogen cycle, one of the most important biochemical cycles in all ecosystems, plays a key role in human survival and development. It describes the interconversion process between elementary nitrogen substances and nitrogen-containing compounds.....»»
Researchers develop small molecule to stimulate natural killer cells against neuroblastoma
An MUSC Hollings Cancer Center research team has created what team members believe to be among the first small molecules designed to stimulate immune cells to fight cancer. More importantly, these compounds inhibit a specific enzyme that hasn't been.....»»
ZTE’s latest tablet brings back something we haven’t seen in years
ZTE has announced its latest tablet, the nubia Pad 3D, a tablet that was developed with Leia to provide users with a glasses-free 3D experience. The post ZTE’s latest tablet brings back something we haven’t seen in years first appeared on Phandro.....»»
Researcher develops new methods to measure "forever chemicals" in both the atmosphere and in aerosol particles
From regulators to researchers and most industries in between, all eyes are on PFAS. PFAS, per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of highly fluorinated human-made compounds that have been used for decades in everything from nonstick cookware.....»»