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‘Atomic sandwiches’ could make computers 100X greener
A false-colored electron microscopy image shows alternating lutetium (yellow) and iron (blue) atomic planes.Credit: Emily Ryan and Megan Holtz/Cornell
Researchers have engineered a material that...
Researchers reconstruct beautiful house in Pompeii by using 3D technology
Researchers reconstruct house from old Pompeii using 3D technology.Credit: Image courtesy of Lund University
By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University...
Discovery of an Extragalactic Hot Molecular Core
Artist's concept image of the hot molecular core discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud.Credit: FRIS/Tohoku University. The figure is a derivative work of the...
Study solves 50-year-old puzzle tied to enigmatic, lone wolf waves
Using a computer-assisted wave generator, scientists produced a train of solitons in a 110-meter-long water tank in Berlin, recreating in water the mathematical results...
Omnidirectional mobile robot has just two moving parts
Carnegie Mellon University's SIMbot robot uses a motor with just one moving part -- a large ball -- to balance and move in an...
Lord of the Rings: Archaeologists unveil new findings from Greek warrior’s tomb
A mirror discovered in the tomb of a Greek warrior in southwest Greece refers to a scene of a goddess holding a mirror in...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016: Secrets of exotic matter revealed
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to David J. Thouless of...
Stanford researchers show air bag bike helmets have promise
Stanford postdoc Mehmet Kurt tests an air bag helmet designed to protect bicycle riders from concussions. (Image credit: Kurt Hickman)
Stanford bioengineer David Camarillo knows...
Large volumes of data from ITER successfully transferred to Japan at unprecedented speeds
Data of 105 TB were transferred repeatedly every 30min at a high speed (average of 7.2 Gbps) from ITER (France) to REC (Japan) for...
Stanford scientists uncover how a fluctuating brain network may make us better thinkers
Fluctuations of network structure of the brain during rest (top panel). Fluctuations grouped by high similarity show two distinct states: one in which the...
Fossil from oldest ancestor of modern sea turtles
Silhouette of Ctenochelys acris overlaid with some of the fossils used to reconstruct the species.Credit: Drew Gentry, UAB
Several 80-million-year-old fossils found in Alabama are...
