Science

Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero: Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University researchers measured the quantum fluctuations behind a novel magnetic material's ultra-cold ferromagnetic phase transition

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Rendering of the near–perfect crystal structure of the yttrium–iron–aluminum compound used in the study. The two–dimensional layers of...

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'Squid skin' metamaterials project yields vivid color display: Rice lab creates RGB color display technology with aluminum nanorods

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Rice researchers tune the color output of each array both by varying the length of the nanorods and by adjusting the length of the spaces...

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UT Arlington research uses nanotechnology to help cool electrons with no external sources

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A chip, which contains nanoscale structures that enable electron cooling at room temperature, is pictured.

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Advanced Light Source Sets Microscopy Record| Berkeley Lab Researchers Achieve Highest Resolution Ever with X-ray Microscopy

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Ptychographic image using soft X-rays of lithium iron phosphate nanocrystal after partial dilithiation. The delithiated region is shown in...

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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

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First Map of Rosetta's Comet

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This view of the "belly" and part of the "head" of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko indicates several morphologically...

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How skin falls apart: The pathology of autoimmune skin disease is revealed at the nanoscale

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UB researchers have pinpointed important changes in cellular behavior that occur in Pemphigus Vulgaris, the rare, blistering skin disease...

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Molecular self-assembly controls graphene-edge configuration

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Graphene nanoribbons are fabricated by molecular assembly on a Cu(111) substrate. On this surface system, GNRs on grow in six azimuthal...

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