Science

Switching to spintronics: Berkeley Lab reports on electric field switching of ferromagnetism at room temp

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This is a conceptual illustration of how magnetism is reversed (see compass) by the application of an electric field (blue dots) applied...

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Unraveling the light of fireflie

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This detailed microimage shows larger channels branching into smaller ones, supplying oxygen for the firefly's light emission. The smallest...

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Scientists trace nanoparticles from plants to caterpillars: Rice University study examines how nanoparticles behave in food chain

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The buildup of fluorescent quantum dots in the leaves of Arabidopsis plants is apparent in this photograph of the plants under ultraviolet...

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Pb islands in a sea of graphene magnetise the material of the future

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In the sea of graphene (over an iridium crystal), electrons' spin-orbit interaction is much lower than that created by intercalating a Pb...

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Iranian Scientists Convert Curcumin Existing in Turmeric into Edible Nanodrug

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A sponge-like molecular cage for purification of fullerenes

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Promising new method for rapidly screening cancer drugs: UMass Amherst researchers invent fast, accurate new nanoparticle-based sensor system

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UMass Amherst chemists have devised a multi-channel signature-based approach to screening drugs using a gold nanoparticles with red, green...

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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gears up for run 2

The European Organization for Nuclear Research announced on Dec. 12 at the 174th session of the CERN Council that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up for its second three-year run. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle...

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