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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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How do cold ions slide

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Ions on optical lattice.

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Nano-needles for cells

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PINT-SIZED NAIL BED: Into the oven goes a thin copper plate. Out come the needles that will force stubborn cells to take their medicine.

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Forecast for Titan: Wild Weather Could be Ahead

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Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid...

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Whirlpools on the Nanoscale Could Multiply Magnetic Memory: At the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab scientists join an international team to control spin orientation in magnetic nanodisks

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The electron spins in a magnetic vortex all point in parallel, either clockwise or counterclockwise. Spins in the crowded core of the...

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Researchers Stitch Defects into the World’s Thinnest Semiconductor

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A false-color electron microscopy image showing the star-shaped crystals in monolayers of two-dimensional semiconducting molybdenum...

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