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Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...
Photophoresis occurs when gas molecules bounce more forcefully off the warm side of an object than the cool side, creating ...
Next, the temperature must drop below freezing so that ice forms atop the desert floor. Once it inevitably begins melting, ...
Researchers with the schools of science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are exploring new ways to ...
Shrinking interconnects expose limitations in traditional inspection methods, forcing new approaches to overlay, surface ...
T his week NASA administrator Sean Duffy declared the Trump Administration's intention to land a working nuclear fission reactor on the moon by the end of the decade. “We're in a race to the moon, in ...
First-of-its-kind multimodal study reveals that smaller catalytic nanoparticles transform while converting carbon dioxide, ...
The group also partnered with defense giant Lockheed Martin to win a NASA contract worth $5 million in 2022 to designed the ...
Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health ...
On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
In the wake of the blast, these eerie shadows were left etched into surfaces across the city—almost like a photo negative of ...