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.…
NASA Airborne Mission Looks At Fires and Cooling…
[caption id="attachment_8219" align="alignnone" width="737"] Clouds over the southern Atlantic Ocean are overlain by smoke (seen with the CALIPSO lidar satellite) from biomass burning fires over southern Africa, which move westward with the prevailing tropical winds.…
UW scientists say invasive species impacts much worse…
[caption id="attachment_8213" align="alignnone" width="775"] Since the spiny water flea’s invasion, water quality in Lake Mendota has plummeted and algal blooms, like the one pictured, are on the rise. PHOTO: STEVE CARPENTER.[/caption] MADISON, Wis. - A…
Advancements Made in Migraine Drug Development
Drug makers are getting closer to making effective migraine treatments. A new report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) explained several pharmaceutical firms “are in the late stages of testing a new class of migraine drug.” The therapies attack…
Magnetar could have boosted explosion of extremely bright…
Kavli IPMU of The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Instituto de Astrofisica de La Plata, Argentina, scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two extremely…