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'Going negative' pays for nanotubes: Rice University lab finds possible keys to better nanofibers, films

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Crown ether “cages” trap potassium ions but leave nanotubes with a repellant negative charge in solutions that will be valuable for forming...

Injectable Nano-Network Controls Blood Sugar in Diabetics for Days at a Time

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The nano-network releases insulin in response to changes in blood sugar.

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall

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Model simulations spanning 140 years show that warming from carbon dioxide will change the frequency that regions around the planet...

An Anarchic Region of Star Formation

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The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an...

Cluster hears the heartbeat of magnetic reconnection

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The magnetic reconnection region in the tail of Earth's...

Use of laser light yields versatile manipulation of a quantum bit

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This is an artist's rendering of all-optical control of an individual electronic spin within a diamond. This spin is associated with a...

Shaking things up: NIST researchers propose new old way to purify carbon nanotubes

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Shown are three examples of partitioning carbon nanotubes in liquid phases. Left: nanotubes partitioned by diameter. Smaller diameters, on...

Landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons on Mars

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Sulci Gordii

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