What makes penguin feathers ice-proof
The range of Humboldt penguins extends from coastal Peru to the tip of southern Chile. Some of these areas can get frigid, and the water the birds swim in is part of a cold ocean current that sweeps up the coast from the Antarctic.
Remote predictions of fluid flow in fractures possible with new finding
A graph of the scaling relationship between fluid flow and fracture stiffness is shown. The shape of the symbol indicates the fracture...
LIGO's Twin Black Holes Might Have Been Born Inside a Single Star
Topological insulators: Magnetism is not causing loss of conductivity
In pure bismuth-selenide (left) no bandgap is found. With the addition of magnetic manganese (4 percent; 8 percent), a band gap (dashed...
Quantum phase transition underpins superconductivity in copper oxides: CIFAR researchers in Canada and France unveil key organizing principle of high-temperature superconductivity
Settling a 20-year debate in the field, they found that a mysterious quantum phase transition associated with the termination of a regime called the "pseudogap" causes a sharp drop in the number of conducting electrons available to pair up for...
Researchers demonstrate 'quantum surrealism'
In a new version of an old experiment, CIFAR Senior Fellow Aephraim Steinberg (University of Toronto) and colleagues tracked the trajectories of photons as the particles traced a path through one of two slits and onto a screen. But the researchers...
NASA Introduces New, Wider Set of Eyes on the Universe
After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
Stretchable nano-devices towards smart contact lenses: Researchers at RMIT University and the University of Adelaide have joined forces to create a stretchable nano-scale device to manipulate light
The device manipulates light to such an extent that it can filter specific colours while still being transparent and could be used in the future to make smart contact lenses.
