The tearing energy, as a fracture mechanics concept, was proposed by Rivlin and Thomas 1 as an analogy to the energy release rate 2 to study fracture in rubber and rubber-like materials. They assumed ...

Aerosol samplers are critical tools for studying indoor and outdoor aerosols. Development and evaluation of samplers is often labor-intensive and time-consuming due to the need to use monodisperse ...

Advances in structural biology have allowed scientists to determine molecular structures with atomic-level detail, sometimes ...

For two decades, physicists have tried to directly manipulate the spin of electrons in 2D materials like graphene. Doing so could spark key advances in the burgeoning world of 2D electronics, a field ...

Technique 'very much an experimental method' A 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, researchers report. The ...