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NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets on Its Own

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument...

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Ultra-flat circuits will have unique properties: Rice University lab studies 2-D hybrids to see how they differ from common electronics

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Hybrids of two-dimensional materials like the graphene-molybdenum disulfide illustrated here have electronic properties that don't follow...

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Designing climate-friendly concrete, from the nanoscale up: New understanding of concrete’s properties could increase lifetime of the building material, decrease emissions

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The left and center diagrams show the structure of cement hydrate as determined by the researchers’ model, which calculates the positions...

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A 'smart dress' for oil-degrading bacteria

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(a,b) Targeted movement of magnetic cells was facilitated by external magnetic field (in liquid media); (c) sedimentation of magnetically...

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New remote-controlled microrobots for medical operations

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Scientists at EPFL and ETHZ have developed a new method for building microrobots that could be used in the body to deliver drugs and...

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NASA's Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier

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NASA's Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets

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Physicists collide ultracold atoms to observe key quantum principle

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University of Otago physicist Niels Kjærgaard and his team have used extremely precisely controlled laser beams to confine, accelerate...

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