liquids

An international team of researchers has developed a technique that uses liquid metal to create an elastic material that is impervious to both gases and liquids. Applications for the material include use as packaging for high-value…

Lasers are intense beams of colored light. Depending on their color and other properties, they can scan your groceries, cut through metal, eradicate tumors, and even trigger nuclear fusion. But not every laser color is available with the…

The rules limiting the volume of liquids allowed on planes and requiring electronics to be taken out of hand luggage in security are to change.The government has set a deadline of June 2024 for major UK airports to install new…

Security restrictions on liquids and laptops in airport hand luggage could be removed in the UK, due to the rollout of new high-tech 3D scanners.For 16 years, air passengers have had to take all hand luggage liquids, in…

In analytical chemistry, it is often necessary to accurately monitor the concentration change of certain substances in liquids on a time scale of seconds. Especially in the pharmaceutical industry, such measurements need to be extremely…

Solar cells are quickly becoming one of the main ways to produce clean electricity in many countries in the world. Over the past few decades, a tremendous amount of effort has been dedicated to making solar power more prominent. However,…

Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Birmingham and Sapienza Università di Roma. This 'phase transition' in water was first proposed…

Nylon cooking bags and plastic-lined cardboard cups are conveniences many people rely on, but a new study in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology suggests that they are an underappreciated source of nanoparticles. They report that…

Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button -- no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand. That possibility may be closer than ever thanks to a recent…

After many decades of astonishing developments, advances in semiconductor-based computing are beginning to slow as transistors reach their physical limits in size and speed. However, the requirements for computing continue to grow,…