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Shape shifting molecular robots respond to DNA signals

Shape-shifting molecular robots respond to DNA signals

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Schematic diagram of the molecular robot. Molecular actuators work inside the robot, and the shape of the artificial cell membrane, which are bodies, are...
Rapid changes point to origin of ultra fast black hole burp

Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole ‘burp’

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This is an artist impression illustrating a supermassive black hole with X-ray emission emanating from its inner region (pink) and ultrafast winds streaming from...
Engineers turn objects into FM stations

Singing posters and talking shirts: Engineers turn objects into FM stations

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The FM backscattering system encodes audio or data on top of a regular FM broadcast but uses an unoccupied frequency in the FM radio...
Humans have three times more brown body fat

Humans have three times more brown body fat

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The two scientists Tobias Fromme (l.) and Carlos Gerngross revealed that some persons have an easier time activating their brown fat, or even have...
Scientists reveal new super fast form of computer that ‘grows as it computes’

Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that ‘grows as it computes’

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Credit: public domain Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as...
Chiral metamaterial produces record optical shift under incremental power modulation

Chiral metamaterial produces record optical shift under incremental power modulation

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Laser light shows the nanopatterned structure of a chiral metamaterial developed by researchers in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia...
NuSTAR Helps Find Universes Brightest Pulsars

NuSTAR Helps Find Universe’s Brightest Pulsars

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NGC 5907 ULX is the brightest pulsar ever observed. This image comprises X-ray emission data (blue/white) from ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA's Chandra...
Worlds oldest fossils unearthed e1488395481291

World’s oldest fossils unearthed

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Haematite tubes from the NSB hydrothermal vent deposits that represent the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth. Credit: Matthew Dodd Remains of microorganisms...
Molecular structure of the cell nucleoskeleton revealed for the first time

Molecular structure of the cell nucleoskeleton revealed for the first time

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The 3-D view of the nuclear lamina shows a section of the architecture of the delicate meshwork made of lamin filaments (filament rod in...
Team puts dark matter on the map

Team puts dark matter on the map

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A 3-D visualization of reconstructed dark matter clump distributions in a distant galaxy cluster, obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields data. The...