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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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A seasonal ozone layer over the Martian south pole

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For the past decade, ESA's Mars Express orbiter has been observing atmospheric...

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Heliatek and AGC sign a development agreement to integrate organic solar films in glass to collect solar energy

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The key to Heliatek's success is the family of small organic molecules - oligomers - developed and synthesized at its own lab in Ulm,...

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NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World

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Kepler-7b (left), which is 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter (right), is the first exoplanet to have its clouds mapped. The...

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Improving lithium-ion batteries with nanoscale research

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TEM image of a Silicon / Germanium nanowire.

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Hybrid Nanocomposites Designed in Iran for Targeted Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery

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A new paradigm for nanoscale resolution MRI has been experimentally achieved

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Illustration of the experimental setup shows the two unique components of the teams novel MRI technique that was successful in producing a...

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