Science

Turning vapors into foam-like polymer coatings

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An initiated chemical vapor deposition (ICVD) system is used to convert a mixture of gases into foam polymer.

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Soft shells and strange star clusters

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The beautiful, petal-like shells of galaxy PGC 6240 are captured here in intricate detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

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Water-rich Planetary Building Blocks Found Around White Dwarf

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Water-rich Planetary Building Blocks Found Around White Dwarf

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Scientists use blur to sharpen DNA mapping: Rice University researchers transcend optical limits to locate specific sequences

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A super-resolution technique developed at Rice University allows fluorescent-labeled probe DNA to pinpoint target DNA sequences in an...

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A Close Look at the Toby Jug Nebula

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ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a remarkably detailed image of the Toby Jug Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust...

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Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots: Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes

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A prototype of a new modular robot, with its innards exposed and its flywheel — which gives it the ability to move independently —...

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‘White graphene’ halts rust in high temps: Rice U. researchers find nano-thin films of hexagonal boron nitride protect materials from oxidizing

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Rice University researchers have discovered that sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) as little as one atom thick can protect...

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