Graphene continues to amaze us with its power and diversity – new stimuli are being discovered all the time, and now scientists have found a way to manipulate the wonder material so that it can filter water impurities well Two-dimensional materials made up of carbon atoms have previously been studied …
Read More »Israel’s parliament failed to contest the election
Israel will face its fourth soon-to-be election in two years after missing Tuesday’s parliamentary deadline to pass the budget. The snap election in March marks a sign of recent developments in Israel’s two-year-long saga that has drawn voters to vote three times as prime minister. Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin (BB) Netanyahu He …
Read More »Physicists observe trippy ‘vortex rings’ in magnetic material for the first time
You can also find vortex rings wherever you have liquids. Now, scientists have found the art of the vortex interesting somewhere – inside a small column made of magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt intermetallic compound GDCO2. If you’ve seen smoke rings, or bubble rings under water, you’ve seen vortex rings: a …
Read More »Supercooled water is actually two different liquids in one, physicists reveal
Water is a very strange thing. In our everyday experience, when liquid water falls below 0 ° C (32 ° F or 273.15 Kelvin), it becomes OK, freezes in solid form. But the snow, it turned out, is also rather strange. Most of the time, the ice seems to be …
Read More »Impressive image reveals colossal magnetic field of distant spiral galaxy
Spiral galaxies look pretty and orderly, with most of their stars and gas confined to a carefully arranged disk in swirling spiral arms. But there is much more to a galaxy than we can see, as a new image of invisible phenomena skillfully demonstrates. The image shows a galaxy called …
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