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Rice chemist wins rare NSF Special Creativity Award: Grant extension will bolster Zubarev's effort to produce gold nanorods

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Because gold nanorods are longer than they are wide, 3-D nanorod supercrystals have "anisotropic" properties, which means they have a...

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Light detector to revolutionise night vision technology

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Scientists Find Evidence of 'Diving' Tectonic Plates on Europa

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Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. This conceptual illustration of...

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Bright Clumps in Saturn Ring Now Mysteriously Scarce

pia17154-640_0.jpgCassini spied just as many regular, faint clumps in Saturn's narrow F ring, like those pictured here, as Voyager did, but it saw...

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New piezoelectrical positioning system for microscope revolver MIPOS R120

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Banked blood grows stiffer with age, study finds

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Map of membrane fluctuations in a normal red blood cell, on average up to 50 nanometers. Measuring these fluctuations over time,...

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Newly-Developed Nanosensor Controls Amount of Edible Dyes in Foodstuff Products

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Magnetic nanocubes self-assemble into helical superstructures

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This image depicts an illustration of helices.

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