Science

This Star Cluster Is Not What It Seems

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This new image from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile shows a vast collection of stars, the...

Rice chemist wins rare NSF Special Creativity Award: Grant extension will bolster Zubarev's effort to produce gold nanorods

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Because gold nanorods are longer than they are wide, 3-D nanorod supercrystals have "anisotropic" properties, which means they have a...

Light detector to revolutionise night vision technology

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Graphene

Scientists Find Evidence of 'Diving' Tectonic Plates on Europa

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Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. This conceptual illustration of...

Bright Clumps in Saturn Ring Now Mysteriously Scarce

pia17154-640_0.jpgCassini spied just as many regular, faint clumps in Saturn's narrow F ring, like those pictured here, as Voyager did, but it saw...

New piezoelectrical positioning system for microscope revolver MIPOS R120

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Banked blood grows stiffer with age, study finds

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Map of membrane fluctuations in a normal red blood cell, on average up to 50 nanometers. Measuring these fluctuations over time,...

Newly-Developed Nanosensor Controls Amount of Edible Dyes in Foodstuff Products

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