A team has turned graphene oxide into a soft, moldable and kneadable play dough that can be shaped and reshaped into free-standing, three-dimensional structures. …read more Source:: Science
Month: January 2019
Static electricity could charge our electronics
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•Static electricity is one of the most common, yet poorly understand, forms of power generation. A new study suggests the cause of this hair-raising phenomenon is tiny structural changes that …read more Source:: Science
Rapidly receding glaciers on Baffin Island reveal long-covered Arctic landscapes
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•Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven’t been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years. …read more Source:: Science
Fault lines are no barrier to safe storage of CO2 below ground
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•Carbon capture and storage is a reliable way to store CO2 emissions underground, with minimal chance of gas escaping through geological fault lines. …read more Source:: Science
Neanderthal hunting spears could kill at a distance
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•Neanderthals have been imagined as the inferior cousins of modern humans, but a new study reveals for the first time that they produced weaponry advanced enough to kill at a …read more Source:: Science
Free software made it on laptops but IoT future is bleak
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•If people cannot tinker with Internet of Things devices, then the future is bad for free software, Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy has said. …read more Source:: Linux
Crocodiles have complex past
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•A new study offers a different version to the evolutionary past of modern-day crocodiles and alligators. The study says crocodiles and alligators came from a variety of surroundings beginning in …read more Source:: Science
What it takes to be a giant shark
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•Have you ever wondered why the Megalodon shark became to be so big? Or wondered why some other sharks are much smaller? …read more Source:: Science
Stellar winds, the source material for the universe, are clumpy
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•Data recorded by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of a neutron star as it passed through a dense patch of stellar wind emanating from its massive companion star provide valuable insight …read more Source:: Science
Multicolor holography technology could enable extremely compact 3D displays
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•Researchers have developed a new approach to multicolor holography that could be used to make 3D color displays for augmented reality glasses, smartphones or heads-up displays without any bulky optical …read more Source:: Science