Sensing light with 'liquid Lego'

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Microscopic light sensors created using millimetre-sized water droplets and hair-thin electrodes. Credit: University of Oxford

Scientists at Oxford University and Duke University in the United States have used tiny water droplets to build a unique microscopic light sensor.

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25 year old message in a bottle reunited with its owner

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As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost a quarter of a century later, Donald will be reunited with the bottle which ...

NIST WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse

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The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards ...

Research shows pollsters how the undecided will vote

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As the American Presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to predict who will win. A study by a team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the University of Padova, Italy, may give ...

Manes, trains and antlers explained

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For Charles Darwin, the problem of the peacock's tail, in light of his theory of natural selection, was vexing in the extreme.

Study on salmonella self-destruction

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ETH Zurich biologists, led by Professors Martin Ackermann and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, in collaboration with Michael Doebeli of the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (CN), have been able to describe how random molecular ...

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