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Kinks and curves at the nanoscale
One of the basic principles of nanotechnology is that when you make things extremely small—one nanometer is about five atoms wide, 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair—they ...
11 hours ago from Phys.org
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We Steal Secrets: the rise and fall of WikiLeaks in classic Hollywood terms
Julian Assange stars as Walter White; the US government reprises The Chicken Man.
5 hours ago from Arstechnica
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Thin-film solar cells could become more efficient – thanks to moths' eyes
Because moths need to use every little bit of light available in order to see in the dark, their eyes are highly non-reflective. This quality has been copied in a film that can be applied to ...
Fri 17 May 13 from Gizmag
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News in Brief: Analog circuits boost power in living computers
New cell-based computers do division and logarithms the old-fashioned way
Fri 17 May 13 from ScienceNews
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In a bowl of breakfast cereal, principles of attraction on display
Andong He saw a phenomenon at work in his breakfast bowl that he couldn't explain. It prompted this question: How does cereal shape influence the way cereals floating in the milk join?
Fri 17 May 13 from Phys.org
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40-year-old prediction confirmed: First direct proof of Hofstadter butterfly fractal observed in moire superlattices
A team of researchers from Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Tohoku University and the National Institute for Materials Science in ...
Wed 15 May 13 from Phys.org
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New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
University of Toronto engineering researchers, working with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, have published new insights into how materials transfer heat, which could lead eventually ...
Thu 16 May 13 from Phys.org
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New X-ray method shows how frog embryos could help thwart disease
An international team of scientists using a new X-ray method recorded the internal structure and cell movement inside a living frog embryo in greater detail than ever before.
Fri 17 May 13 from Phys.org
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New Instant Adhesive Turns From Red to Transparent As It Dries
Kokuyo S&T Co Ltd will release an instant adhesive that prevents the user from spilling the adhesive or applying too much of it May 29, 2013.
Thu 16 May 13 from Tech-On
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Catching graphene butterflies
Writing in Nature, a large international team led Dr Roman Gorbachev from The University of Manchester shows that, when graphene placed on top of insulating boron nitride, or 'white graphene', ...
Wed 15 May 13 from Phys.org
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