Modern technology reconstructs properties of ochre, commonly found in ancient rock art Ochre, one of Earth’s oldest naturally occurring materials, was often used as a vivid red paint in ancient rock art known as pictographs […]
A mathematical method for calculating black-hole properties from gravitational-wave data Sean McWilliams, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, has developed a mathematical method for calculating black hole properties from gravitational wave data. He has […]
Using artificial intelligence to engineer materials’ properties Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of atoms in its structure enough to cause […]
Odd properties of water and ice explained: Water exists as two different liquids We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure. Now, however, […]