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New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story -
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
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