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The Purple Track at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Has a Secret Ingredient
[ad_1] THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. Traditionally, the athletics track in an Olympic stadium is…
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A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech
[ad_1] The Swiss company CompPair focuses on composites with the goal of making products more repairable. Its hallmark composites rely on what CompPair calls…
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Pusan National Univ. researchers use AI to uncover magnesium alloy anisotropy secrets.
[ad_1] Newswise — Magnesium (Mg) alloys have been popularly used for designing aerospace and automotive parts owing to their high strength-to-weight ratio. Their biocompatibility…
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Some mosquitoes like it hot
[ad_1] Newswise — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research…
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Materials Research Institute names 2023 Roy Award winners
[ad_1] Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Six Penn State materials researchers have received the 2023 Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research…
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Dance sparks magnetism’s birth
[ad_1] Newswise — Quantum materials hold the key to a future of lightning-speed, energy-efficient information systems. The problem with tapping their transformative potential is…
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Developing carbon-negative cementitious materials, giving new life to ‘unusable’ waste
[ad_1] Newswise — ROLLA, Mo. – A Missouri University of Science and Technology research team was recently awarded $2.5 million in funding to find new…
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Rubber behavior: Dynamics decoded
[ad_1] Newswise — Rubber-like materials, commonly used in dampeners, possess a unique property known as dynamic viscoelasticity, enabling them to convert mechanical energy from…
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ORNL scientists close the cycle on recycling mixed plastics
[ad_1] Newswise — Little of the mixed consumer plastics thrown away or placed in recycle bins actually ends up being recycled. Nearly 90% is…
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Graphene nanodevice readout at high speed
[ad_1] Newswise — Stacking two layers of graphene with atomic layer thickness produces bilayer graphene, which possesses excellent electrical, mechanical, and optical properties. As…
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Superlensing without a super lens: physicists boost microscopes beyond limits
[ad_1] Newswise — Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered the world of bacteria through a microscope in the late seventeenth century, humans have tried…
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NASA’s Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
[ad_1] Newswise — Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a…
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Physicists demonstrate powerful physics phenomenon
[ad_1] Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – In a new breakthrough, researchers have used a novel technique to confirm a previously undetected physics phenomenon that…
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A 130g soft robot gripper lifts 100kg?
[ad_1] Newswise — Utilizing soft, flexible materials such as cloth, paper, and silicone, soft robotic grippers is an essential device that acts like a…
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Argonne joins Illinois manufacturers for “Makers on the Move” tour
[ad_1] Newswise — Manufacturers throughout Illinois will have the chance to learn about working with the Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center (MMIC) at the U.S. Department of…
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High-performance, Earth-friendly Materials for Geothermal Wells
[ad_1] Newswise — UPTON, NY—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $19 million in funding over four years for a new research center…
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Benefit breakdown, 3D printed vs. wood molds
[ad_1] BYLINE: Jennifer J Burke Newswise — Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have conducted a comprehensive life cycle, cost and carbon emissions analysis on…
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Scientists uncovered mystery of important material for semiconductors at the surface
[ad_1] Newswise — A team of scientists with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has investigated the behavior of hafnium oxide, or…
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Easier and faster materials microstructure analysis through human-AI collaboration!
[ad_1] Newswise — The research team led by Dr. Se-Jong Kim and Dr. Juwon Na of the Materials Data Management Center in the Materials…
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Observation of nonlinear disclination states
[ad_1] Newswise — Higher-order topological insulators are unusual materials that can support topologically protected states. Recently discovered disclination states also belong to the class…