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Making particles self assemble using sound ways, hydrogen fuel cells just by painting houses and a simpler way to desalinate water.
Image: James Grellier, 2010, "A view across a reverse osmosis desalination plant." References:
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Understanding the structure of DNA, how it shields DNA from mutation and helps messages spread quickly across the jumbled mess. Plus a shovel full of 1000s of new bacteria have their genomes sequences and released into the world.
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New Materials to help separate oil from water using magnets and nano particles. Plus making cheaper and more efficient batteries from recycling rusting steel. We check out some stories from the frontiers of material science.
Image credit: Heavy band of oil seen during an overflight on May 12. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Sources: 1. Story 1 Saebom Ko, Eun Song Kim, Siman Park, Hugh Daigle, Thomas E. Milner, Chun Huh, Martin V. Bennetzen, Giuliano A. Geremia. Amine functionalized magnetic nanoparticles for removal of oil droplets from produced water and accelerated magnetic separation. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2017; 19 (4) DOI: 10.1007/s11051-017-3826-6 2. Story 2 Yun-hai Zhu, Yan-bin Yin, Xu Yang, Tao Sun, Sai Wang, Yin-shan Jiang, Jun-min Yan, Xin-bo Zhang. Transformation of Rusty Stainless-Steel Meshes into Stable, Low-Cost, and Binder-Free Cathodes for High-Performance Potassium-Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201702711 Episode 225 - Another LIGO discovery, hungry black holes, neutron star based GPS for space travel6/6/2017
We find out what the latest LIGO discovery means for gravitational waves and black holes. Plus finding out why black holes grew so quickly and a new observatory for Neutron Stars.
We've also spoken about LIGO several times before on our podcast. Check out our episodes below including a chat with one of the LIGO research team at our Science Cafe (Episode 128). We also talked about the mechanisms for black holes colliding and the discovery of gravitational waves in Episodes 157 and Episode 175.
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Story 1: GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2, B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 – Published 1 June 2017, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101 Story 2: Faint progenitors of luminous z ∼ 6 quasars: Why do not we see them?, Edwige Pezzulli Rosa Valiante Maria C. Orofino Raffaella Schneider Simona Gallerani Tullia Sbarrato Mon Not R Astron Soc (2017) 466 (2): 2131-2142., DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3243 , https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04188 Story 3: Jenner, L. (2017, June 01). NASA to Launch First-Ever Neutron-Star Mission. Retrieved June 05, 2017, from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-to-launch-first-ever-neutron-star-mission |
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