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Multi-Purpose Wonder Can Generate Hydrogen, Produce Clean Water and Even Provide Energy
March 20, 2013 A new wonder material can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even provide energy. Science fiction? Hardly, and there's more -- It can also desalinate water, be used as flexible water ... > full story -
Alloy Has Potential for Electronics in Oil, Gas and Geothermal Wells
March 19, 2013 An alloy that may improve high-temperature electronics in oil, gas and geothermal wells fills a unique ... > full story -
Mechanical Forces Play Major Role in Regulating Cells
March 19, 2013 Researchers have for the first time shown that mechanical forces can control the depolymerization of actin, a protein critical to cells. The research suggests that forces applied externally and ... > full story -
Fantastic Flash Memory Combines Graphene and Molybdenite
March 19, 2013 Scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties -- graphene and molybdenite -- into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, ... > full story -
Tenfold Boost in Ability to Pinpoint Proteins in Cancer Cells
March 19, 2013 A new method for color-coding cells allows cancer researchers to illuminate 100 biomarkers, a ten-time increase from the current standard. This helps to analyze individual cells from cultures or ... > full story -
Laser-Like Photons Signal Major Step Towards Quantum 'Internet'
March 19, 2013 The realization of quantum networks is one of the major challenges of modern physics. Now, new research shows how high-quality photons can be generated from "solid-state" chips, bringing us closer to ... > full story -
Electrons Are Not Enough: Cuprate Superconductors Defy Convention
March 19, 2013 To engineers, it's a tale as old as time: Electrical current is carried through materials by flowing electrons. But physicists have now found that for copper-containing superconductors, known as ... > full story -
Electrical Signals Dictate Optical Properties
March 19, 2013 Researchers have created an artificial material, a metamaterial, with optical properties that can be controlled by electric ... > full story -
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Experiments Find Strongest Shapes With 3-D Printing
March 18, 2013 Physicists are using 3-D printing to test complex qualities of shapes made via the computer. They are studying "jamming" and the structural properties of ... > full story -
Causing Collapse: Can One Affect an Atom's Spin Just by Adjusting the Way It Is Measured?
March 18, 2013 One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state -- it can exist in multiple realities -- at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, ... > full story
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