Science

University of Illinois researchers develop novel technique for chemical identification at the nanometer scale

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Atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) of polymer nanostructures.

Russian Scientists Might Have Found New Life Under Antarctic Ice

Russian scientists say they might have found new life forms in a fresh-water Antarctic lake that has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years.

Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before — New results pin down the distance to the galaxy next door

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Biobatteries catch breath

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New air-breathing cathode for miniaturised biofuel cells, developed by a team of researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the...

Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

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For those in search of comet L4 PANSTARRS, look to the west after sunset in early and mid-March...

NASA Mission Helps Craft 3-D Image Of Buried Mars Flood Channels

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This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood...

Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before

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Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hours: Physicists probe stress-induced changes in clot-forming protein

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Rice University researchers in the lab of Ching-Hwa Kiang use the bobbing needle from an atomic force microscope to grab and pull...

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