Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety

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Critical advances in medicine and environmental protection promise to emerge from a new method for biochemical analysis of fluids developed by an international science team led in part by Arizona State University researchers.


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First Tunable, ‘Noiseless’ Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable “noiseless” ...

Einstein's relativity survives neutrino test

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Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon ...

New recipe for self-healing plastic includes dash of food additive

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Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system.

The Day the World Didn't End

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Here's what didn't happen on Sept. 10th:
The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic ...

Single-pixel camera has multiple futures: Terahertz version adds new potential to unique invention

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A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine.