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NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon. This ...

Drag-reduction systems aren't anything new; they've been a staple of racing cars for ages, and shown up on but it seems ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

Hiring women or men of short stature to 'spice up' parties has become increasingly common in Europe in recent years. These practices raise both moral and legal questions.

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Now, during this scheduled time of rumination, I want to share my immense gratitude for The A.V. Club staff and readers, who ...

The triboluminescence (TL) of metal halide perovskite (MHP) films is found for the first time. Scraping the MHP film with a ...

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have emerged as highly promising materials for a wide range of applications, including solar cells, light-emitting ...

The presence of so many powerful characters in Naruto means that there are a lot of strong abilities as well. Masashi Kishimoto has shied away from giving the heroes and the villains insanely ...

Abstract: Fast interruption is vitally important in high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system to suppress the rapid increase of short current. In this paper, a multi-physics coupling simulation model ...