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Opportunity's Devilish View from on High

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From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil...

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Scientists Push Valleytronics One Step Closer to Reality

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This schematic shows a TMDC monolayer coupled with a host ferromagnetic semiconductor...

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Europe sending crude oil into space to study Earth’s depths

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Jiuquan launch centre

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Ruthenium nanoframes open the doors to better catalysts

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Using a two-part process, chemist Xiaohu Xia and his team found a way to turn ruthenium into a nanoframe, a promising metal catalyst.

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Artificial molecules

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Artificial molecules are shown. The individual components are marked with different fluorescent dyes (molecule size: 2-7 micrometres;...

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Heat and light get larger at the nanoscale: Columbia-led research team first to demonstrate a strong, non-contact heat transfer channel using light with performances that could lead to high efficiency electricity generation

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This is a video of the high-precision micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) used to control the distance between two beams at different...

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A Planet Is Forming in an Earth-like Orbit around a Young Star

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Trigger for Milky Way's Youngest Supernova Identified

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