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Scientists Shape First Global Topographic Map of Saturn's Moon Titan
May 15, 2013 Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earthlike and interesting worlds in the ... > full story -
Physicists Let Magnetic Dipoles Interact on the Nanoscale for the First Time
May 15, 2013 Physicists have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles ... > full story -
Nanoscavengers Could Usher in Next Generation Water Purification
May 15, 2013 A new synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically. This improves upon existing technologies through ultraresponsiveness to ... > full story -
Black Hole Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy
May 15, 2013 The intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to produce immense power in the form of jets moving at millions of miles per ... > full story -
First Direct Proof of Hofstadter Butterfly Fractal Observed in Moiré Superlattices
May 15, 2013 Scientists have directly observed a rare quantum effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum, confirming the longstanding prediction of this quantum fractal energy structure ... > full story -
Catching Graphene Butterflies: Dramatically Changing Electronic Properties of World's Thinnest Material
May 15, 2013 A large international team of researchers has shown that when graphene placed on top of insulating boron nitride, or 'white graphene', the electronic properties of graphene change dramatically ... > full story -
Observation of Second Sound in a Quantum Gas
May 15, 2013 Second sound is a quantum mechanical phenomenon, which has been observed only in superfluid helium. Physicists have now proven the propagation of such a temperature wave in a quantum ... > full story -
Significant Improvement in Performance of Solar-Powered Hydrogen Generation
May 15, 2013 Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers have shed new ... > full story -
Squishy Hydrogels May Be the Ticket for Studying Biological Effects of Nanoparticles
May 15, 2013 A class of water-loving, jelly-like materials with uses ranges ranging from the mundane, such as superabsorbent diaper liners, to the sophisticated, such as soft contact lenses, could be tapped for a ... > full story -
Making Frequency-Hopping Radios Practical
May 15, 2013 New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more ... > full story
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