The University of Osaka researcher shows that solid-state hysteresis can be described using thermodynamic state variables When the input variable X is changed as X0→X1→X0, the response Y of the system varies as A→B→C →D→A.…
Clean house
[caption id="attachment_10160" align="alignnone" width="700"] CNES–Emmanuel Grimault, 2016[/caption] Everybody knows a clean house is a healthy place to live, but what if you live on the International Space Station? Air and water are constantly recycled and…
Traffic noise reduces wild owls’ foraging efficiency
A team of researchers has found that traffic noise reduces the foraging efficiency of wild owls by up to 89 percent. The team’s world-first study examined how different levels of such noise affect the hunting…
Life in ancient oceans enabled by erosion from…
[caption id="attachment_10152" align="alignnone" width="605"] Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the Department of Geoscience at UW–Madison, with the mass spectrometer used to measure isotopes in rocks from South Africa. DAVID TENENBAUM[/caption] As scientists continue finding evidence…
Sharpshooting nanoparticles hit the target
Multi stimuli-responsive nanocapsules selectively deliver drugs to exactly where they are needed. [caption id="attachment_10149" align="alignright" width="300"] Magnetic, pH-responsive nanoparticles deliver the antitumor drug doxorubicin (fluorescing red in this image) to cancer cellsReprinted with permission from…