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Interlayer detector for ion beam milling processes

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New insight into thermoelectric materials may boost green technologies: A U of Miami physicist and his collaborators find remarkable thermoelectric properties for a metal that may impact the search for materials useful in power generation, refrigeration o

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Lithium purple-bronze (LiPB) is a thermoelectric material comprised of aligned conducting, zig-zag chains of molybdenum and oxygen (left...

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Magnetar Formation Mystery Solved?

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Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the Universe —...

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West Antarctic Glacier Loss Appears Unstoppable

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Thwaites Glacier.

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Chemotherapy timing is key to success: Nanoparticles that stagger delivery of two drugs knock out aggressive tumors in mice.

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The nanoparticle contains the cancer drug doxorubicin (green spheres) in its core. Erlotinib is embedded in the red outer shell. Attached...

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Scientists Find Solution to Two Long-Standing Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity: Findings unequivocally link two "personality" changes of electrons at critical point

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Disappearing stripes linked with free electron movement: Scientists used a precision microscope to simultaneously explore electrons'...

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NASA Uses GPS to Find Sierra Water Weight

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A GPS station in the mountains of Oregon.

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Mid-level Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun

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The bright light on the left side of the sun shows an M5.2-class solar flare in progress on May 8,...

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