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Scientists use lasers to control mouse brain switchboard

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Scientists used mice to study how nerve cells in thalamic reticular nucleus work during sleep and how they help the brain...

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Next-generation Microshutter Array Technology

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This image shows a close-up view of the next-generation microshutter arrays — designed to accommodate the...

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Molecular engineers record an electron's quantum behavior

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These images show a diamond sample with a hemispherical lens (right and lower left), and the location of a single electron spin/quantum...

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Hubble Revisits a Globular Cluster’s Age

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Tall Boulder Rolls Down Martian Hill, Lands Upright

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Watching the Winds Where Sea Meets Sky

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The SeaWinds scatterometer on NASA's QuikScat satellite stares into the eye of 1999's Hurricane Floyd...

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NASA's Chandra Observatory Searches for Trigger of Nearby Supernova

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New test reveals purity of graphene: Rice, Osaka scientists use terahertz waves to spot contaminants

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Rice and Osaka researchers have come up with a simple method to find contaminants on atom-thick graphene. By putting graphene on a layer of...

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