Science

Puzzling Question in Bacterial Immune System Answered

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Short DNA sequences known as “PAM” (shown in yellow) enable the bacterial enzyme Cas9 to identify and degrade...

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First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf

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Iranian Scientists Take New Step towards Intelligent Analogue Processors at Nanometric Scale

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Smartphone Apps for Diabetes: Do They Really Work?

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Engineers teach old chemical new tricks to make cleaner fuels, fertilizers: Researchers from Denmark and Stanford show how to produce industrial quantities of hydrogen without emitting carbon into the atmosphere

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On the left, a scanning tunneling microscope image captures the bright shape of the moly sulfide nanocluster on a graphite surface. The grey...

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Cooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes

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Cooling microprocessor chips through the combination of carbon nanotubes and organic molecules as bonding agents is a...

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Molecules as circuits

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Researchers develop new method to control nanoscale diamond sensors: Technique allows tiny sensors to monitor small changes in magnetic fields, such as when neurons transmit electrical signals.

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A single nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamond (right, inset), optically initialized and readout by confocal microscopy, is manipulated...

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