deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Memories and energy landscapes of magnetic glassy states
An international team of researchers has revealed the intricate relation between how the systems remember their past and their complex energy landscapes. [caption id="attachment_10516" align="alignnone" width="616"] Schematic illustrations of spin configurations in (left) spin-glass and…
Liquid crystal design method could speed development of…
[caption id="attachment_10509" align="alignright" width="157"] Manos Mavrikakis[/caption] University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed a new way to create inexpensive chemical sensors for detecting explosives, industrial pollutants or even the chemical markers of disease in a…
Keeping pollution under control
Sophisticated statistical methods can detect ozone pollution hot spots and monitor instrument failure. [caption id="attachment_10505" align="alignright" width="300"] KAUST researchers Ying Sun and Fouzi Harrou. © 2016 KAUST[/caption] Ozone is a troublesome pollutant at ground level…
Virtual Milky Way
[caption id="attachment_10500" align="alignnone" width="630"] Credit: ESA[/caption] ESA’s Gaia is surveying stars in our Galaxy and local galactic neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about…