Looking out of his backyard in the Canadian town of Strathmore, amateur astronomer and photographer Alan Dyer saw an unfamiliar sight dancing in the night sky: rippling arcs of reddish-pink aurora bo… [+2661 chars]
Newswise — The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in Libya. An investigation of these seeds led by… [+3301 chars]
<li>Carrigan, C.R., Sun, Y., Hunter, S.L, Ruddle, D.G., Wagoner, J.L., Myers, K.B.L., Emer, D.F., Drellack, S.L. & Chipman, V.D. Delayed signatures of underground nuclear explosions. Sci. Rep.6, … [+12504 chars]
Engineers at Caltech have developed a switchone of the most fundamental components of computingusing optical, rather than electronic, components. The development could aid efforts to achieve ultrafas… [+4299 chars]
What is a Soliton? The word "soliton" is derived from solitary since it is a solitary wave that acts as a particle and satisfies several specific conditions. These conditions include maintaining sha… [+5336 chars]
Ever since humanity launched the first satellite into Earth orbit in the 1950s, we have sent a multitude of spacecraft to the other worlds in our solar system. Although humans themselves have only ev… [+3721 chars]
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What appear to be ripples of blue sand dusting the Martian landscape make the Red Planet appear even more alien than usual. The striking coloration is not, however, what it seems. To see the true be… [+2539 chars]
Bacteria and other unicellular organisms developed sophisticated ways to actively navigate their way, despite being comparably simple structures. To reveal these mechanisms, researchers from the Max … [+3968 chars]
In a study published in the journal Genome Research, investigators in UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Johns Hopkins University have illuminated the immunoglobulin (a… [+3768 chars]
Taken from the August 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Whether youre sunbathing by the sea on a beach holiday, sip… [+3993 chars]
Enabling & Support02/08/202219 views0 likes Combining high strength with low weight, corrosion-resistant and shapeable into almost any form, composite materials are a key ingredient of modern li… [+5336 chars]
