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CU-Boulder ultrafast microscope used to make slow-motion electron movie

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This is an image captured by CU-Boulder researchers using an ultrafast optical microscope shows clouds of electrons oscillating in gold...

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Light used to measure the 'big stretch' in spider silk proteins

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Graphene becomes superconductive -- Electrons with 'no mass' flow with 'no resistance'

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This is the crystal structure of Ca-intercalated bilayer graphene fabricated on SiC substrate. Insertion of Ca atoms between two graphene...

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Breaking cell barriers with retractable protein nanoneedles: Adapting a bacterial structure, Wyss Institute researchers develop protein actuators that can mechanically puncture cells

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In this time-lapse, retractable protein actuators called "R bodies" - found naturally in certain bacteria - are seen extending from barely-...

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Earth-like Planets Have Earth-like Interiors

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Replacement of Toxic Antibacterial Agents Possible by Biocompatible Polymeric Nanocomposites

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Astronomers Report Results of First Search for Visible Light Associated with Gravitational Waves.

Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts the emission of gravitational waves by massive celestial bodies moving though space-time. For the past century gravitational waves have eluded a direct detection, but now the LIGO Virgo Collaboration...

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A metal that behaves like water: Researchers describe new behaviors of graphene

It's one atom thick, stronger than steel, harder than diamond and one of the most conductive materials on earth.

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