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Can material rivaling graphene be mined out of rocks? Yes, if...

Will one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide, a compound that occurs naturally in rocks, prove to be better than graphene for electronic applications? There are many signs that might prove to be the case. But physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have shown that the nature of the phenomena occurring in layered materials are still ill-understood and require further research.

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Layers of molybdenum disulfide stand better prospects of finding applications in electronics than graphene. Molybdenum disulfide occurs in nature as molybdenite, crystalline material that frequently takes the characteristic form of silver-colored hexagonal plates.

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Concerns and Considerations with the Naming of Mars Craters

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Mix of new and old observations reveals exotic binary system

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Prescribed Fires Abound in Southeast U.S.

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Production of Bioactive Material for Quick Treatment of Bone Damages

A bioactive and biocompatible material was designed and produced by engineers from Iran Polymer and Petrochemistry Research Center by using nanoparticles with the ability to quickly treat damaged bones.

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Caltech Researchers Create Light-Bending Silicon Chip: Bending the Light with a Tiny Chip

Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a wall or a big screen. Such a technology may be on its way, thanks to a new light-bending silicon chip developed by researchers at Caltech.

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An image of Hajimiri's light-bending silicon chip.

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NASA Data Sheds New Light on Changing Greenland Ice

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The calving front of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier seen during an IceBridge survey flight in 2012.

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NASA's WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'Planet X'

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A nearby star stands out in red in this image from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey.

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NASA's THEMIS Discovers New Process that Protects Earth from Space Weather

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NASA's THEMIS mission observed how dense particles normally near Earth in a layer of the uppermost atmosphere called the plasmasphere can send a plume up through space to help protect against incoming solar particles during certain space weather events.

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New NASA Van Allen Probes Observations Helping To Improve Space Weather Models

Using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes, researchers have tested and improved a model to help forecast what's happening in the radiation environment of near-Earth space -- a place seething with fast-moving particles and a space weather system that varies in response to incoming energy and particles from the sun.

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NASA's Van Allen Probes orbit through two giant radiation belts that surround Earth. Their observations help improve computer simulations of events in the belts that can affect technology in space.