Science

Creating Electricity with Caged Atoms

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Clathrates: crytals enclosing single atoms

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Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent for 2013

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Scientists watch from the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy as it cuts through multiyear sea ice in the...

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Densest array of carbon nanotubes grown to date: New technique could one day help improve the performance of microelectronics in devices ranging from batteries to spacecraft

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Scanning electron microscope images are of CNT forests with low and high density.

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NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars

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This picture shows a lab demonstration of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an...

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Young Stars Cooking in the Prawn Nebula

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The glowing jumble of gas clouds visible in this new image make up a huge stellar nursery nicknamed the Prawn Nebula. Taken...

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Container's material properties affect the viscosity of water at the nanoscale: Glass or plastic?

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This illustration shows how the different effective viscosity of water affects the force required to slide two surfaces separated by a thin...

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In water as in love, likes can attract

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This model of the guanidinium chloride salt (blue and silver) in solution shows carbon (yellow) and water (green) surrounding the cations...

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NASA 'HEROES' Set to Launch Balloon Solar/Space Imager

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Diagram of an example flight profile is shown. It takes about 3 hours from launch for the payload to reach float (maximum altitude)....

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