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When disordered magnetic materials are cooled to just the right temperature, something interesting happens. The spins of their atoms 'freeze' and lock into place in a static pattern, exhibiting cooperative behavior not usually displayed.  Now for the first time, physicists have seen the opposite. When fractionally heated, the naturally occurring magnetic element neodymium freezes, turning all our expectations topsy turvy."The magnetic behavior in neodymium that we observed is actually the opposite of what 'normally'…

Indonesia’s construction industry is large and growing quickly, but a lot of supply procurement is still done the old-fashioned way, through phone calls and text messages. Juragan Material wants to make things easier with a B2B marketplace for building materials from curated suppliers. The company announced today it has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Go-Ventures, with participation from Susquehanna International Group (SIG). The new capital will be used for hiring, increasing Juragan Materials’ market share…

Gmail is bringing a host of new design changes including the Material You redesign in Gmail for Web, Gmail-only view, and the ‘Storage used' indicator for Gmail on Android and iOS. The Material You redesign is changing the default white background in Gmail for Web to a faint blue colour. The redesign also supports a Gmail only interface that gives users greater flexibility to specify the apps they would like included in their new view.Google's email service, Gmail, is introducing a number of design changes to the…

Astronomers had a rare opportunity to observe a galaxy in the early universe that is providing its surroundings with the building blocks required to create later generations of stars and galaxies, thanks to a fortunate cosmic alignment. The experts have found that the distant galaxy has been spewing elements required for the formation of galaxies and stars. The galaxy, A1689-zD1, was seen with gas flowing over its edges and is said to be the earliest known-run-of-the-mill galaxy. It was spotted in light magnified by a…

Workers inspect a Rivian R1T electric vehicle (EV) pickup truck on the assembly line at the company's manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois, US., on Monday, April 11, 2022.Jamie Kelter Davis | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRaw material costs for electric vehicles more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report Wednesday by AlixPartners, forcing automakers from General Motors and Tesla to start-ups like Lucid and Rivian to significantly raise prices on new vehicles. Average raw material cost for…

We’re already aware of some of the big changes coming to Android 13 and the Material You theming system. Google could finally be ready to take steps in order to make Material You accessible to more devices than it is now.The easing of Material You restrictions with Android 13 will bring a sigh of relief to app developersA Google spokesperson told Android Police that it will lift the allowlist that restricts Material You from being accessible to more manufacturers. Moreover, the company is also easing its strict policy…

When a star dies, what happens to its planets? Well, if that star is a certain white dwarf 86 light-years away, those planets are currently in the process of being torn apart and eaten by the star, like some grotesque cosmic performance of Kronos devouring his children.  This is not entirely unusual for white dwarfs. But this particular star, named G238-44, is a glutton: for the first time, astronomers have seen one of these stars swallowing material from both the inner and outer reaches of its planetary system at the…

Last year, with Android 12, Google introduced the third iteration of its material design language – Material You – and the dynamic colour is one of the biggest highlights of the new design language. Google’s dynamic colour experience picks the colour theme of the system based on the wallpaper. Now, this dynamic colour might soon be coming to Chromebooks.9to5Google found a new flag referencing the Chromium Gerrit implying the addition of Material You in the upcoming iterations of ChromeOS. The description for the flag…

Artist’s concept of the material. The actual material is full of holes and slightly resembles Swiss cheese. The holes allow it to attract benzene molecules, a toxic pollutant.The new material can capture small quantities of benzene, a harmful pollutant, from the air while using less energy than previous materialsA new material that can remove harmful substances from the air was created by scientists at the University of Limerick in Ireland.According to the researchers, the substance uses far less energy than current…

Alongside Windows laptops, Samsung also sells Chrome OS-based laptops under the Galaxy Chromebook branding. Google releases a new version of Chrome OS every few weeks, and with an upcoming version of the OS, Chromebooks could get a Material You makeover. The Material You design language debuted with Android 12 last year, and it looks like Google will bring it to Chrome OS this year. Samsung adopted this feature for One UI 4.0 and named it Color Palette. Material You features flatter and more streamlined UI elements. It…