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High Level Specialist Twenty years ago this October, two physicists at the University of Manchester, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, published a groundbreaking paper on the “electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films”. Their work described the...by sagesgroup | Mar 24, 2024 | Astronomy, History, homepage, hp-latest, Physics, Science, Syndicated, The Conversation
— (Dominic Hart/NASA) In 648 BCE, the Greek poet Archilochus wrote that “nothing can be surprising anymore or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians, has made a night out of noonday, hiding the light of the gleaming Sun.” Total solar eclipses...by sagesgroup | Oct 27, 2023 | homepage, hp-latest, Physics, Science
— da-kuk/E+/Getty Images Chemists accidentally invented an unusual new material that could make the next generation of computer chips much faster. The material is a molecule made of rhenium, selenium, and chlorine, and its called Re6Se8Cl2. Its inventors say that a...by sagesgroup | Oct 8, 2023 | homepage, hp-latest, Physics, Science, Syndicated, technology, The Conversation
— ROBERT BROOK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Science Photo Library/Getty Images On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: “near enough null.” The note referred to the electrical...by sagesgroup | Oct 5, 2023 | Chemistry, homepage, hp-latest, Physics, Science
— JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images The first people to make and use quantum dots were glassmakers. Working thousands of years ago, they realized that the same chemical mixture could turn glass into different colors, depending on how they heated it. This year’s...by sagesgroup | Aug 27, 2023 | Biology, Physics, Science, Syndicated, The Conversation
Unprecedented on the coral reefs of Palau, a nation of more than 300 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, we found that the tolerance of corals to warm conditions has likely increased over the past three decades. Testing thermal tolerance Palau experienced...