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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 -
Cell on a Chip Reveals Protein Behavior: In the Future, Artifical Cells May Produce Complex Protein Structures on Demand
March 18, 2013 For years, scientists around the world have dreamed of building a complete, functional, artificial cell. Though this vision is still a distant blur on the horizon, many are making progress on various ... > full story -
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Negative-Charge Carrying Molecular Structures Created
March 18, 2013 Chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges -- a highly desired but often difficult combination to achieve in current efforts to ... > full story -
Magnets Are Chaotic -- And Fast -- At the Very Smallest Scale
March 18, 2013 Using a new type of camera that makes extremely fast snapshots with an extremely high resolution, it is now possible to observe the behavior of magnetic materials at the nanoscale. This behavior is ... > full story -
Researchers Trap Light, Improve Laser Potential of MEH-PPV Polymer
March 18, 2013 Researchers have come up with a low-cost way to enhance a polymer called MEH-PPV's ability to confine light, advancing efforts to use the material to convert electricity into laser light for use in ... > full story -
Self-Assembled Nanostructures Enable a Low-Power Phase-Change Memory for Mobile Electronic Devices
March 18, 2013 Nonvolatile memory that can store data even when not powered is currently used for portable electronics such as smart phones, tablets, and laptop computers. Flash memory is a dominant technology in ... > full story -
Novel Drug Delivery System Releases Drugs in Response to Compression by the Patient's Hand
March 17, 2013 Medical researchers have succeeded in developing a gel material which is capable of releasing drugs in response to pressure applied by the ... > full story
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