Science

New milestone could help magnets end era of computer transistors

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As current passes through a strip of tantalum, electrons with opposite spins separate. Researchers used the resulting polarization to...

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CRIXlabs promo presentation of NuSilico software created by Nanobotmodels: Nanobotmodels animation studio presents new CRIXlabs presentations about NuSilico software!

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Budget deal: "We managed to get the priorities right"

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Alain Lamassoure

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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Uses New Airborne Radar to Search for Downed WWII Aircraft Wreckage

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will lead a team of scientists and engineers to fly a Multi-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (MB-SAR) to gather information to aid in the search and recovery of unaccounted for aircraft losses in Papua New Guinea...

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WISE Catalog Just Got Wiser

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The new AllWISE catalog will bring distant galaxies that were once invisible out of hiding, as illustrated in this image...

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Hubble views an old and mysterious cluster

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very...

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Nano magnets arise at 2-D boundaries: Rice University theory has implications for spintronics

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Rice University theorists have discovered magnetic fields (blue) are created at grain boundaries in two-dimensional dichalcogenides....

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UT Austin researchers grow large graphene crystals that have exceptional electrical properties

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Yufeng Hao, postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, demonstrates large, single graphene crystals grown on copper.

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