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Plasmonics: A Wave Without Diffraction
May 22, 2013 Optical computing could benefit from the recent development of a novel electromagnetic ... > full story -
New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices
May 22, 2013 Researchers have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale -- meaning the films are only one atom thick. The technique can be used to create ... > full story -
Volcanoes Cause Climate Gas Concentrations to Vary
May 22, 2013 Trace gases and aerosols are major factors influencing the climate. With the help of highly complex installations, such as MIPAS on board of the ENVISAT satellite, researchers try to better ... > full story -
Minus Environment, Patterns Still Emerge: Computational Study Tracks E. Coli Cells' Regulatory Mechanisms
May 21, 2013 Random mutations and genetic drift, rather than design principles, may explain the emergence of regulatory network properties in E. ... > full story -
Allosaurus Fed More Like a Falcon Than a Crocodile: Engineering, Anatomy Work Reveals Differences in Dinosaur Feeding Styles
May 21, 2013 The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more ... > full story -
NASA's IRIS Mission Readies for a New Challenge
May 21, 2013 NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar ... > full story -
New Method for Tailoring Optical Processors
May 21, 2013 Physicists and engineers have unveiled a robust new method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors that transform incoming light signals into output ... > full story -
Visual Search Function: Where Scene Context Happens in Our Brain
May 21, 2013 Though a seemingly simple and intuitive strategy, visual search function -- a process that takes mere seconds for the human brain -- is still something that a computer can't do as accurately. Over ... > full story -
Protein Study Suggests Drug Side Effects Are Inevitable
May 20, 2013 A new study of both computer-created and natural proteins suggests that the number of unique pockets – sites where small molecule pharmaceutical compounds can bind to proteins – is ... > full story -
Fastest Measurements Ever Made of Ion Channel Proteins
May 20, 2013 Engineers have used miniaturized electronics to measure the activity of individual ion-channel proteins with temporal resolution as fine as one microsecond, producing the fastest recordings of single ... > full story
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