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NASA IRIS: Improving Our View Of the Sun

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This image from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hinode mission shows the lower...

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Diamonds, nanotubes find common ground in graphene: Hybrid created by Rice, Honda Research Institute shows nanotubes can grow on anything

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Rice University and the Honda Research Institute use single-layer graphene to grow forests of nanotubes on virtually anything. The image...

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Biodegradable Nanocomposites Synthesized for Food Stuff Packaging

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A new self-assembled nanostructure that can survive very hot or saline environments

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Fig. 1 The team used linear and cyclic block copolymers to create flower-shaped micelles. The cyclic-based micelles withstood considerably...

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Hubble Sees a Swirl of Star Formation

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Gold nanocrystal vibration captured on billion-frames-per-second film

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The acoustic phonons can be visualized on the surface as regions of contraction (blue) and expansion (red). Also shown are two-dimensional...

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How do cold ions slide

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Ions on optical lattice

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Galaxies Fed by Funnels of Fuel

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Created with the help of supercomputers, this still from a simulation shows the formation of a massive galaxy during the...

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