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Physicists uncover new competing state of matter in superconducting material

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Ames Laboratory researchers used laser pulses of less than a trillionth of a second in much the same way as flash photography, in order to...

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DNA design that anyone can do: Computer program can translate a free-form 2-D drawing into a DNA structure

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MIT researchers have devised a technique that “reverse engineers” complex 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) models — breaking them down into...

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Holiday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar

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These three radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were obtained on Dec. 15-17, by coordinating observations...

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E-bandage generates electricity, speeds wound healing in rats

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A wound covered by an electric bandage on a rat's skin (top left) healed faster than a wound under a control bandage (right).

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Mars Express gets festive: A winter wonderland on Mars

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Perspective view of Korolev crater

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Scientists program proteins to pair exactly: Technique paves the way for the creation of protein nanomachines and for the engineering of new cell functions

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Proteins designed in the lab can now zip together in much the same way that DNA molecules zip up to form a double helix. The technique...

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Lucy Finds Its Place in the Solar System: Navigating NASA’s First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids

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This diagram illustrates Lucy's orbital path. The spacecraft’s path (green) is shown in...

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Scientists use magnetic defects to achieve electromagnetic wave breakthrough

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This shows how a plane electron wave and a magnetic charge interact, forming an electron vortex state that carries orbital angular momentum...

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