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Silk could improve sensitivity, flexibility of wearable body sensors

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Silk could soon be used to produce more sensitive and flexible body sensors like this one.

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Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1

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Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017...

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Gold shines through properties of nano biosensors: Researchers discover that fluorescence in ligand-protected gold nanoclusters is an intrinsic property of the gold particles themselves

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The researchers used Au20, gold nanoparticles with a tetrahedral structure, to show that fluorescence in ligand-protected gold clusters is...

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Candy cane supercapacitor could enable fast charging of mobile phones

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Supercapacitors promise recharging of phones and other devices in seconds and minutes as opposed to hours for batteries. But current...

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Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish

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Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive...

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Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan

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These two views of Saturn's moon Titan exemplify how NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the surface of this...

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From hot to cold: How to move objects at the nanoscale: Moving a single gold nanocluster on a graphene membrane, thanks to a thermal gradient applied to the borders: a new study sheds light on the physical mechanisms driving this phenomenon

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The theoretical predictions of these study could be of great interest in the frame of manipulating materials at the nanoscale for...

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2-faced 2-D material is a first at Rice: Rice University materials scientists create flat sandwich of sulfur, molybdenum and selenium

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Rice University materials scientists replace all the atoms on top of a three-layer, two-dimensional crystal to make a transition-metal...

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