Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2020
Scientists create world's smallest 'refrigerator'
How do you keep the world's tiniest soda cold? UCLA scientists may have the answer.
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Environment
Jan 23, 2020
Climate hazard scientists connect 2018's Four Corners drought directly to human-caused climate change
The western United States has experienced such intense droughts over the past decade that technical descriptions are becoming inadequate. In many places, conditions are rocketing past "severe," through "extreme," all the ...
Environment
Aug 27, 2019
The positives of climate change? Research shows agricultural, economic possibilities
Depending on your side of the aisle, climate change either elicits doomsday anxiety or unabashed skepticism.
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Jun 21, 2019
Climbing droplets driven by mechanowetting on transverse waves
Modern applications use self-cleaning strategies and digital microfluids to control individual droplets of fluids on flat surfaces but existing techniques are limited by the side-effects of high electric fields and high temperatures. ...
General Â鶹ÒùÔºics
Jun 17, 2019
Using waves to move droplets
Controlling individual droplets leads to more efficient self-cleaning surfaces and lab-on-a-chip implementations. University of Groningen professor Patrick Onck and colleagues from Eindhoven University of Technology have ...
Materials Science
Aug 21, 2018
Portable freshwater harvester could draw up to 10 gallons per hour from the air
For thousands of years, people in the Middle East and South America have extracted water from the air to help sustain their populations. Drawing inspiration from those examples, researchers are now developing a lightweight, ...
Materials Science
Jun 8, 2018
In desert trials, next-generation water harvester delivers fresh water from air
Last October, a University of California, Berkeley, team headed down to the Arizona desert, plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home and started sucking water out of the air without ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 4, 2018
Enhancing 'breath figures' using electric fields
Breath figures are the typical condensation patterns we know from breathing on a cold surface. In physics, this term is used to describe dropwise condensation patterns. The evolution of these patterns and roll-off of droplets ...
Materials Science
Mar 22, 2018
In field tests, device harvests water from desert air
It seems like getting something for nothing, but you really can get drinkable water right out of the driest of desert air.
Earth Sciences
Mar 9, 2018
100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures
One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, lawmakers in Florida this week passed the "Sunshine Protection Act," which will make daylight saving a year-round reality in the Sunshine State.
