Science

European Commission consults on Future and Emerging Technologies

The European Commission is launching a public consultation to identify promising and potentially game-changing directions for future technological research.

NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill

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NASA UAVSAR image of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, collected June 23, 2010. The oil appears much darker than the...

Electron 'sniper' targets graphene

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Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up By Black-hole Mischief

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Immunomodulatory effect of nanoparticles

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NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole

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NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive...

NRL Researchers Discover New Route to Spin-Polarized Contacts on Silicon

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NRL scientists successfully used graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice (gray), as a tunnel barrier to electrically...

Scientists Determine Mechanical Properties of Bone Cement by Nanotechnology

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