The School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) sits within Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Applied Sciences. Its ...

Physicists have observed the Zel’dovich effect in an electromagnetic system – something that was thought to be incredibly difficult to do until now. This observation, in a simplified induction ...

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But if you want to understand a herd or a flock, you can learn a lot by reducing individual animals to mere particles – if ...

That’s according to a study by physicists in China and the US, who say their finding points to a decline in overall ...

Sea ice An upside-down sea ice slab showcasing brine channels that facilitate the drainage of liquid brine and support convection along the interface. (Courtesy: Ken Golden, 2007) The thermal ...

Despite the visual similarities, however, sea ice and tea scum break up through different physical mechanisms. While ice is brittle, bending and snapping under the weight of crushing waves, the ...

A team of US-based researchers has developed an inexpensive and ultrathin metasurface that, when paired with a neural network ...

Devices will be important for applications in quantum sensing and computing, biology, underwater communications and display ...

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Fatima Gunning is a physicist at the Tyndall National Institute, a research flagship of University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, where she is also head of graduate studies, and education and public ...