Month: May 2019

room temperature superconductivity, room temperature superconductor, superconductor, sodalite, clathrate compounds, lanthanum hydride, hydrogen sulphide, sulphur hydride, BCS theory, Meissner effect, magnetic field, diamagnetism, type II superconductor, bismuth, density functional theory, superhydride compounds, lanthanum decahydride, TV Ramakrishnan, mass number, Neil Ashcroft, Vitaly Ginzburg, Mikhail Eremets, high pressure,

Under Enormous Pressure, a New Superconductor Star Is Born

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/05/2019

When subject to a force of 1.6 million atmospheres,...

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Plastic Poisons Ocean Bacteria That Produce 10% of the World’s Oxygen

Petra Cameron and Philippa Kearney 25/05/2019

Researchers at Macquarie University found that chemicals from plastic...

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Chimpanzees Spotted Smashing Open and Eating Tortoises for the First Time

Lydia Luncz, Alexander Piel and Fiona Stewart 24/05/2019

The discovery sheds light on how early humans developed...

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SpaceX Launches 60 Satellites for Elon Musk’s New Internet Service Starlink

Joey Roulette 24/05/2019

These satellites represent the initial phase of a planned...

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

A Century of the Proton

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2019

Only 100 years after the proton was first sussed...

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Biodiversity Conservation Takes Precedence in Odisha’s Silent Valley

Basudev Mahapatra 22/05/2019

Forest communities of Mandasaru hills are taking steps to...

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ISRO Launches Earth Observation Satellite RISAT-2B

Vijay Karthik 22/05/2019

ISRO chairman K. Sivan had earlier described this mission...