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  How to Treat Heat Like Light: New Approach Using Nanoparticle Alloys Allows Heat to Be Focused or Reflected Just Like Electromagnetic Waves

  January 11, 2013 — A new technique provides a new way of manipulating heat, allowing it to be controlled much as light waves can be manipulated by lenses and ... > full story
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  Fusion Helped by Collision Science

  January 11, 2013 — Understanding the mechanisms of electron-molecule collisions could help predict the operations inside the fusion chamber of the ITER reactor. Physicists have calculated the efficiency of a reaction ... > full story
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  Oxygen to the Core: Earth's Core Formed Under More Oxidizing Conditions Than Previously Proposed

  January 10, 2013 — Scientists have discovered that Earth's core formed under more oxidizing conditions than previously proposed. While scientists know that Earth accreted from some mixture of meteoritic material, there ... > full story
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  A Rock Is a Clock: Physicist Uses Matter to Tell Time

  January 10, 2013 — What is the simplest, most fundamental clock? Physicists have shown that a single atom is sufficient to measure time using its high-frequency matter wave. Conversely, the frequency of matter can be ... > full story
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  New Material Harvests Energy from Water Vapor

  January 10, 2013 — Engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water ... > full story
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  New Nanotech Fiber: Robust Handling, Shocking Performance

  January 10, 2013 — Scientists have created the first pure carbon nanotube fibers that combine many of the best features of highly conductive metal wires, strong carbon fibers and pliable textile thread. Researchers ... > full story
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  Molecular Machine Could Hold Key to More Efficient Manufacturing

  January 10, 2013 — An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in the laboratory with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made in ... > full story
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  Mussels Inspire Innovative New Adhesive for Surgery

  January 9, 2013 — Mussels can be a mouthwatering meal, but the chemistry that lets mussels stick to underwater surfaces may also provide a highly adhesive wound closure and more effective healing from ... > full story
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  Expert Suggests Tried-and-True Strategies to Strengthen Your Relationship

  January 9, 2013 — What are you doing to keep your relationship alive? A new study highlights the importance of five relationship maintenance strategies that couples can use to preserve or improve the quality of an ... > full story
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  Making Whole Wheat Bread Taste and Smell More Appetizing

  January 9, 2013 — The key to giving whole wheat bread a more appetizing aroma and taste may lie in controlling the amounts of a single chemical compound that appears in the bread, which nutritionists regard as more ... > full story

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