Collaborators from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich designed a material that is magnetism-activated in terms of its shape memory. Subjecting the material into a magnetic field retains its shape.
Almost one-fourth of the ice in the West Antarctic are said to be unstable. According to the lead author of the study, Andy Shepherd, a polar scientist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, some ice sheets in parts of Antarctic has thinned by extraordinary amounts.
Kyushu University scientists demonstrate that organic semiconductor laser diodes have been realized. This will start the era for laser applications in the fields of optical communications, healthcare, biosensing, and displays.