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sciencealert.com > a-new-kind-of-plastic-vaporizes-when-heated-and-then-reassembles-itself

A New Kind of Plastic Vaporizes When Heated And Then Reassembles Itself

8+ hour, 32+ min ago   (724+ words) The world is drowning in plastic waste. Our bodies are full of microplastics and no environment is safe. Plastics are strewn atop the most remote mountains, the deepest parts of the sea, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so…...

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sciencealert.com > boiling-liquid-does-something-in-near-zero-gravity-even-scientists-didnt-see-coming

Boiling Liquid Does Something in Near-Zero Gravity Even Scientists Didn't See Coming

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (650+ words) Out in deep, dark depths of space, electronics and fuel can still get hot – very hot. As plans are made for longer missions and more advanced tech systems, one of the key areas scientists want to understand better is what…...

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sciencealert.com > scientists-melted-a-diamond-and-it-really-didnt-go-the-way-they-expected

Scientists Melted a Diamond, And It Really Didn't Go The Way They Expected

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (994+ words) Heist movies may refer to diamonds as ice, but the two solids don't actually have a lot in common. From the way their atoms are arranged inside to how they even form in the first place (intense pressure and heat…...

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sciencealert.com > scientists-watched-carbon-dioxide-being-pulled-out-of-the-air-to-form-graphite

Scientists Watched Carbon Dioxide Being Pulled Out of The Air to Form Graphite

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (419+ words) Wouldn't it be great if we could make a material we need for batteries by pulling carbon dioxide right out of the air? It almost sounds too good to be true, but chemists have found a way....

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sciencealert.com > plastic-waste-has-been-turned-directly-into-hydrogen-fuel-no-sorting-required

Plastic Waste Has Been Turned Directly Into Hydrogen Fuel – No Sorting Required

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (643+ words) If a scientific innovation can address one of our most pressing environmental problems, it's a fantastic achievement. If it can help solve two – even better. A new study details a method for converting three of the most commonly used plastics…...

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sciencealert.com > scientists-create-a-breathable-hydrogel-inspired-by-human-lungs

Scientists Create a 'Breathable' Hydrogel Inspired by Human Lungs

4+ week, 23+ hour ago   (445+ words) Wearable health sensors capable of continuously monitoring changes in the body have become a massive development in health technology in recent years....

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sciencealert.com > scientists-find-a-way-around-a-160-year-old-law-of-physics-to-create-programmable-heat

Scientists Find a Way Around a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (482+ words) There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, for example, which applies the idea of reciprocity to heat, and dictates that a surface's ability to absorb heat at a specific angle and…...

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sciencealert.com > physicists-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-superconductors

Physicists Just Set a New World Record For Superconductors

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (637+ words) Superconductive materials could revolutionize electronics – if only they weren't so fussy. Coaxing materials into this state, where electrical currents flow freely with no resistance at all, requires either extremely low temperatures or extremely high pressures, or both. That means that…...

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sciencealert.com > a-sea-of-quantum-weirdness-experimental-physicists-have-created-a-surprisingly-exotic-new-form-of-matter

A Sea of Quantum Weirdness: Experimental Physicists Have Created an Exotic New Form Of Matter

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (289+ words) At the lowest temperatures in the Universe, physics gets funky....

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sciencealert.com > elusive-quantum-material-turns-out-to-be-something-even-stranger

Elusive Quantum Material Turns Out to Be Something Even Stranger

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (324+ words) For decades, scientists have been searching for quantum spin liquids (QSLs) – materials thought to possess several special properties that could advance our understanding of magnetism and efforts to develop quantum computers....