Physical Sciences
Engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas have used advanced techniques to make the material graphene small enough to read DNA.
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A technique that uses acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices that could make Star Trek's tricorder seem a bit bulky in comparison, according to a team of researchers.
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A team of researchers has succeeded in creating a defect in the structure of a single-layer crystal by simply inserting an extra particle, and then watching as the crystal “heals” itself.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's JASPER gas gun has fired its 100th shot.
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In a world first, a research team has been able to look at a distant black hole and resolve the area where its jets are launched from.
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A coating so thin it’s invisible to the human eye has been shown to make copper nearly 100 times more resistant to corrosion.
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NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving.
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After many years of painstaking work, Japanese researchers prove third time's a charm.
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Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the “wow” factor behind a device known as a “space-time crystal.”
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Environmentally-friendly process offers intriguing alternative to fossil-fuel based ethylene for chemicals and transportation fuels.
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A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades.
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With the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers led by Wei Zheng of The Johns Hopkins University has spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen.
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