Location: Nepoli, France
Watching a metal transform into a superconductor, it may not be obvious that
this transition provides access to some of the same physics that governed the
cooling of the universe following the Big Bang. Yet at the root of both of these...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Ultracold atoms are still too hot. This may seem a ridiculous claim—after
all, the low-temperature exploits of the purveyors of quantum gases are
notorious. Laser cooling can flash-freeze atoms to temperatures in the micro-
and nanokelvin...
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Location: Washington DC, United States
This investigation's objective is to obtain spectroscopic observations of
potential comet-asteroid transition objects and extinct comet candidates using
ground-based telescopes to attain the following goals:
1) Identify potential...
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Location: Illinois, United States
Among the frontier challenges in chemistry in the twenty-first century are
the interconnected goals of increasing synthetic efficiency and diversity in the
construction of complex molecules.
Oxidation reactions of C–H bonds,...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract:
The ability to pattern nanostructures has important
applications in medical diagnosis,(1,
2) sensing,
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Much of our knowledge about molecular structure and reactivity is based on
interpreting how molecules interact with light. In particular, time-resolved
pump-probe studies where a first “pump” laser pulse initiates a dynamical
event,...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Source: "The rational design of nitric oxide selectivity in
single-walled carbon nanotube near infrared fluorescence sensors for biological
detection"
Jong-Ho Kim et al
Nature Chemistry
Results: A...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
Einstein introduced general relativity in the early 20th century, and since
then it has been proven to be an accurate description of gravity beyond the
regime of validity of Newtonian gravitation. Since then, people have been
asking...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT physicists have discovered that several high-temperature superconductors
display patchwork quilt-like variations at the atomic scale, a surprising
finding that could help scientists understand a new class of unconventional
materials....
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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the search for answers to the planet's biggest challenges, some MIT
researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria.
The idea of exploiting microbial products is not new: Humans have long
enlisted bacteria and yeast to...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid
transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance
that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries -- for cell phones and other
devices -- that...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation
of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals
-- in this case, fish.
The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique,...
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Location: California, United States
In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like
an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of
hexagons. But this nanoscopic material called graphene, first generally
acknowledged...
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Location: Washington DC, United States
Computing and communicating through the Web makes it virtually impossible to
leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a
job interview; a lost or stolen laptop can expose personal photos or messages;
or a...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look
in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him.
In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals.
Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate...
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Location: California, United States
The aim of this research is to develop devices based upon two dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles, with an optical signatures that are tunable and can measure changes their environment. We have synthesized silver nanoparticles of 3-6 nm...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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