Science

Seeing the Light? Making Sense of Disorder in Polymer Opals

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Silver nanocubes make super light absorbers

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These are nanocubes.

Fermi Improves its Vision for Thunderstorm Gamma-Ray Flashes

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This photograph, taken in May 2008 as the Fermi Gamma-ray Space...

NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night

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Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired...

NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples

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This is a view of the third (left) and fourth (right) trenches made by the 1.6-inch-wide (4-...

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Gives a Big Boost to BigBOSS

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The BigBOSS proposal adds a new widefield, prime-focus corrector to the...

Nature Materials Study: Boosting Heat Transfer With Nanoglue: Interdisciplinary Study From Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Demonstrates New Method for Significantly Increasing Heat Transfer Rate Across Two Different Materials

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Drag-and-Drop DNA: Novel technique aiding development of new cancer drugs

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A collection of pharmaceutical molecules is shown after self-assembly. The detail shows a single molecule, made up of strands of DNA, a...