News tagged with building blocks

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In nanorod crystal growth, nanoparticles seen as artificial atoms

In the growth of crystals, do nanoparticles act as "artificial atoms" forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures? This is the contention of a major but controversial theory ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Organic carbon from Mars, but not biological

(Phys.org) -- Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen--the building blocks of all life on Earth--have been the targets of missions to Mars from Viking to the present day. While these molecules ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover how plant skin is assembled

(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Transformer' protein makes different sized transport pods

These spheres may look almost identical, but subtle differences between them revealed a molecular version of the robots from Transformers. Each sphere is a vesicle, a pod that cells use to transport materials ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineers use XBox technology to make 'space building blocks'

Space innovators at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are developing ‘STRaND-2’, a twin-satellite mission to test a novel in-orbit docking system based upon XBOX Kinect technology ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Life on Mars: just add carbon and stir

The building blocks of life have been discovered on Mars ... in Martian meteorites that fell to Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0