February 2020 - Page 2 of 2

Handwashing prevent disease spreading

February 7, 2020 MIT

Improving the rates of handwashing by travelers passing through airports could reduce significantly many infectious diseases spreading. [read more …]

How Optical Backflow of Light Occur?

February 7, 2020 Tel Aviv University

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have for the first time demonstrated the backflow of optical light propagating forward. [read more …]

New technique making perfect metallic solar absorber

February 5, 2020 University of Rochester

Researchers used laser pulses to etch metal surfaces with nanoscale structures that selectively absorb light only at the solar wavelengths. [read more …]

Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other

February 5, 2020 University of Cambridge

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that as they move, sand dunes interact with and repel their downstream neighbours. [read more …]

New System Improves Phones’ Signal Strength

February 4, 2020 MIT

A software-controlled “smart surface” that uses more than 3,000 antennas to maximize the strength of the signal at the receiver [read more …]

How climate change will impact marine life in the Arctic

February 4, 2020 Wildlife Conservation Society, U.S.

A study of marine mammals is providing scientists with a valuable snapshot of an Arctic world under drastic pressure from climate change [read more …]

The Biggest Glacier thinning in Antarctica

February 3, 2020 European Space Agency

Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the past four decades than any other glacier in Antarctica [read more …]

How ancient Siberian survive the Ice Age?

February 2, 2020 University of York

A new study shows that ancient Siberian hunters created heat resistant pots so that they could cook hot meals surviving the harshest seasons of the ice age [read more …]