Technology
Everybody who has tried to stack oranges in a box knows that a regular packing of spheres in a flat layer naturally leads to a hexagonal pattern,...
With their SQUIDs, low-temperature specialists of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have made it possible for the magnetic moments of...
A new method of sourcing the origins of artefacts in high definition is set to improve our understanding of the past.
Dr Ellery Frahm at the...
Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets. One promising...
The word "drone" tends to conjure up images of planes that kill terrorists or of creepy surveillance tools.
But tiny drone airplanes made of foam...
"When water boils, its molecules are released as vapor. We call this change of the physical state of matter a phase transition," explains Sebastian...
Video compositing to create special effects, replace backgrounds or combine multiple takes of an actor's performance is an integral, but highly labor...
New technique advances carbon-fiber composites.
These days, aerospace engineering is all about the light stuff: building airplanes with lighter...
A team of researchers from several universities – including UCF –has observed a rare quantum physics effect that produces a repeating butterfly-...
One of the basic principles of nanotechnology is that when you make things extremely small—one nanometer is about five atoms wide, 100,000 times...
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