Science

Nanodiamonds Are Forever: A UCSB professor’s research examines 13,000-year-old nanodiamonds from multiple locations across three continents

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A transmission electron microscopy image of carbon spherules from the Younger Dryas Boundary 30 cm below the surface in Gainey, Michigan....

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Witnessing the early growth of a giant

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Astronomers have uncovered for the first time the earliest stages of a massive galaxy forming in the young Universe. The...

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Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe

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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an...

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Scientists craft atomically seamless, thinnest-possible semiconductor junctions

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As seen under an optical microscope, the heterostructures have a triangular shape. The two different monolayer semiconductors can be...

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Competition for Graphene: Berkeley Lab Researchers Demonstrate Ultrafast Charge Transfer in New Family of 2D Semiconductors

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Illustration of a MoS2/WS2 heterostructure with a MoS2 monolayer lying on top of a WS2 monolayer. Electrons and holes created by light are...

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Symphony of nanoplasmonic and optical resonators leads to magnificent laser-like light emission

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Hybrid optoplasmonic system showing the operation of amplification.

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Researchers Map Quantum Vortices Inside Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets - See more at: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2014/08/21/researchers-map-quantum-vortices-inside-superfluid-helium-nanodroplets/#sthash.I4qBLFRX.dpuf

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Illustration of analysis of superfluid helium nanodroplets. Droplets are emitted via a cooled nozzle...

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First Galileo spacecraft launched carrying navigational payloads supplied by UK company, SSTL

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