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Giant enhancement of electromagnetic waves revealed within small dielectric particles: Scientists have done for the first time direct measurements of giant electromagnetic fields

Intensity of the magnetic field at the scattering of an electromagnetic wave. The incident wave propagates from left to right as it is...

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Killing cancer in the heat of the moment: A new method efficiently transfers genes into cells, then activates them with light. This could lead to gene therapies for cancers

This is the delivery and activation of genes by gold nanorods. Gold nanorods coated with charged lipids efficiently bind to DNA and...

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Hubble Pushed Beyond Limits to Spot Clumps of New Stars in Distant Galaxy

When the universe was young, stars formed at a much higher rate than they do today. By...

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ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space

he sample here contains hundreds of thousands of nanoparticles that manipulate the incoming light.

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Into the quantum world with a tennis racket: Classical mechanics helps control quantum computers

The motion of a tennis racket in the air can help predict the behavior of quanta. While the racket rotates 360 degrees about its lateral...

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3-D-printed jars in ball-milling experiments

This image shows a thin-walled jar with a groove; isometric view with a cut (left) and cross section (right).

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Astronomers Detect Orbital Motion in Pair of Supermassive Black Holes

Using the supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from...

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NASA Keeps a Close Eye on Tiny Stowaways

he International Space Station, as seen from space shuttle Atlantis in 2011.