New technique produces graphene flakes from waste material
A technique has recently been developed at Rice University's James Tour lab by graduate student Duy Luong, which allows waste coal, food and plastic to be transformed into graphene flakes in a 'flash' reaction, reducing carbon dioxide by-products and providing researchers with a new cheap method for producing large amounts of graphene for compositing with concrete, cars, clothing, etc.
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A quantum physicist invented a new code from old tricks
Dr. Benjamin Brown from the School of Physics has developed a type of error-correcting code for quantum computers that will free up more hardware to do useful calculations. "Because quantum information is so fragile, it produces a lot of errors," said Dr. Brown, a research fellow at the University of Sydney Nano Institute.
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US astronomers find cosmic missing link black hole
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Dacheng Lin at the University of New Hampshire in Durham believes it has discovered evidence for a particularly elusive kind of black hole that may be a missing link to a wider understanding of these mysterious bodies. Lin's team used the Hubble telescope along with two X-ray measurements to observe what is called an intermediate-mass black hole.
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Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson dies aged 96
Freeman Dyson, the famous mathematician and iconic physics professor at Princeton University, has died aged 96 due to injuries sustained from suffering a fall during his visit to the university. Dyson's contributions to physics include the famous Dyson Sphere, which has been featured in Star Trek, and the Dyson Tree, a genetically modified plant that would be able to survive a journey into space.
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Scientists name temperature-sensitive snail in honor of student activist Greta Thunberg
The famous student environment activist Greta Thunberg, along with winning the Time magazine Person of the Year award and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, has now been accorded the unique honor of having a newly discovered species named after her. The creature belongs to a family of temperature-sensitive land snail and has been named Craspedotropis gretathunbergae.
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