The project’s first mission to protect the world’s ice memory will be launched in France…
Month: July 2016
Neanderthals in Germany: First population peak, then sudden extinction
Neanderthals once populated the entire European continent. Around 45,000 years ago, Homo neanderthalensis was the…
Making magnets flip like cats at room temperature
Heusler alloy NiMnSb could prove valuable as a new material for digital information processing and…
Super-eruptions may give a year’s warning before they blow
A microscopic analysis of quartz crystals from an ancient California super-eruption indicates that the process…
Watching the brain do math
A new neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving…
Integration of novel materials with silicon chips makes new ‘smart’ devices possible
Materials researchers have developed a way to integrate novel functional materials onto a computer chip,…
Can palm oil be sustainable?
A new study shows to where and to what extent palm oil plantations could be…
Hospital more than four times as likely for under-6s after laundry pod detergent contact
Children under the age of 6 are four times as likely to end up in…
Researchers make leap in measuring quantum states
Researchers have developed self-guided quantum tomography which uses a search algorithm to iteratively “find” the…
Self-organizing smart materials that mimic swarm behavior
Scientists have successfully demonstrated the self-organizing pattern formation in active materials at microscale with computer…