High levels of artificial radioactivity on glaciers surprise physicists
Cryoconite, a dark sediment that is a mixture of fine inorganic and organic matter, accumulates in shallow depressions in glacier surfaces. In Norway, it contains surprisingly large amounts of artificial radioactive isotopes from the environment, research conducted by scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Kraków shows.
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Liquid crystals in nanopores produce surprisingly large negative pressure
Negative pressure rules not only the Universe or quantum vacuum. Researchers at the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Kraków presented a method was that allowed to estimate, for the first time, the amount of negative pressure in spatially limited liquid crystal systems.
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