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Soil Survey Shows Nearly 40% of Arable Soils ‘Degraded’ Across England and Wales

Scientists led by Rothamsted Research have developed an easy to use ‘soil health’ measure that shows for the first time that 38% of arable soils in England and Wales are degraded. This is compared with less ...

10 Jul 2020

More Than 7,000 of the World’s Best-Known Research Journals Commit to Action on Equality

Publishers of some of the world’s most impactful research journals and books have committed to tackling bias and discrimination by signing up to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing.

10 Jul 2020

New Compound Could be Key to Understand Elusive Quantum Spin Liquid State

Aside from the deep understanding of the natural world that quantum physics theory offers, scientists worldwide are working tirelessly to bring forth a technological revolution by leveraging this newfound knowledge in engineering applications.

10 Jul 2020

New Approach to Better Measure Crystal Growth Rate in Supercooled Liquids

The authors propose a new quantitative approach to better measure the crystal growth rate in supercooled liquids.

10 Jul 2020

New Study on Steel in Space Could Help Enhance Future Remelting Technology

For many years, the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology and the Styrian industrial company Böhler Edelstahl have been conducting joint research on the surface tension and temperature dependence of different types of steel.

10 Jul 2020

New Method Could Help Determine Origin of Colorless Glass from Roman Period

Glass is an immensely interesting archaeological material: While its fragility and beauty is fascinating in itself, geochemical studies of invisible tracers can reveal more than what meets the eye.

10 Jul 2020

New Super White Paint Could Keep Buildings Cooler by Passive Radiative Cooling

A research team led by UCLA materials scientists has demonstrated ways to make super white paint that reflects as much as 98% of incoming heat from the sun.

10 Jul 2020

Study Shows Why Some Methods Enhance Performance of Electrically Conducting Films

Better understanding the science that underpins well-known techniques for developing quantum dots--tiny semiconducting nanocrystals--can help reduce the guesswork of current practices as material scientists use them to make better solar panels and digital displays.

10 Jul 2020

Study Shows Maximum Chern Number can be Reached in Real Topological Material

In topological materials, electrons can display behaviour that is fundamentally different from that in 'conventional' matter, and the magnitude of many such 'exotic' phenomena is directly proportional to an entity known as the Chern number.

10 Jul 2020

Study Shows Simple Structures can Support Exponential Number of Magnetic States

Spintronics is a thriving branch of nano-electronics which utilizes the spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment in addition to the electron charge used in traditional electronics.

10 Jul 2020

Materials Research News

Soil Survey Shows Nearly 40% of Arable Soils ‘Degraded’ Across England and Wales

More Than 7,000 of the World’s Best-Known Research Journals Commit to Action on Equality

New Compound Could be Key to Understand Elusive Quantum Spin Liquid State

New Approach to Better Measure Crystal Growth Rate in Supercooled Liquids

New Study on Steel in Space Could Help Enhance Future Remelting Technology

New Method Could Help Determine Origin of Colorless Glass from Roman Period

New Super White Paint Could Keep Buildings Cooler by Passive Radiative Cooling

Study Shows Why Some Methods Enhance Performance of Electrically Conducting Films

Study Shows Maximum Chern Number can be Reached in Real Topological Material

Study Shows Simple Structures can Support Exponential Number of Magnetic States

The Development of a Groundbreaking Perovskite Solar Cell

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